Grading is going slower than I'd like, so let's hold off on a reading for Monday. I'll lecture Monday, and we'll resume readings for Wednesday/Friday. I'll post readings for Tuesday/Thursday tomorrow.

-Grant

This is the reading for Thursday/Friday. It's short.

We're working with project implicit tomorrow. Come to the computer lab on the second floor instead of your classroom.

-Grant

Watch this video before class on Wednesday/Thursday. Further instructions will be posted this afternoon.

Also, listen to this recording and check out this website.

Warning: the website is a collection of the last words of people who were about to be executed in Texas. It is not easy to read, but it makes our legal violence more real, and that's why I want you to look at it.

My mother-in-law is in town, so I'm going to chill with her today. We'll flip the classroom on Monday/Tuesday, so just show up and then be ready to watch a lecture at home.

Readings for the week of Good Friday

I forgot to post the readings until just now, so we're just going to read them in class. If you really want a preview, Monday/Tuesday we'll be reading "Shooting an Elephant" by Ernest Hemingway and Wednesday/Thursday we'll be reading "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison (it's chapter one of his novel Invisible Man).

Reading for Thursday/Friday

Read this excerpt from The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Readings for 3/23

Click here for the first reading for next week. More to follow soon.

Meetings

I've just sent out the following email:

Next week, I'm going to meet to talk with you about your first papers. This will be in place of class. Once we meet, you'll have some specific things I want you to work on. After our first meeting, bring your paper back to me to show me you've completed the edits. This will count as your attendance and quiz grades for the week. Don't put this all of until Friday, as some of you will have a lot of work to do.


Available times:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday:
7:30-10:00
11:00-12:00
1:00-2:30

Tuesday/Thursday 9:00-11:00

Please make sure to bring a physical copy of your paper or your laptop with the paper pulled up as my work computer has been acting a fool.

Thanks,

Grant.

Unit Two Readings

I apologize for the missing page on The Monk excerpt. I've fixed it now.

-Grant

For MWF:

February

23 - Genesis 19 and Genesis 38
25 - Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
27 - Target is Stalking You, Pregnancy Discrimination, and Slut Shaming

March

2 - Excerpt from Matthew Lewis' The Monk
4- Fairy Tales and C&H
6-

For TR

February

24 - Genesis 19, Genesis 38, and Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
26 - Target is Stalking You, Pregnancy Discrimination, and Slut Shaming

March

3 - Excerpt from Matthew Lewis' The Monk
5 - Fairy Tales and C&H

I won't have the reading list up tonight, but I'll do my best to have it completed and online by noon tomorrow.

-Grant

On a Hill Far Away by Annie Dillard

Click here to see the pdf

And click here to see the youtube lecture.

Turnitin.com Info

Here's the info for turnitin.com.

MWF class codes

8:00 – 9538216

9:00 – 9538220

12:00 – 9538224

2:00 – 9538227

TR class

9:30 – 9538229

Password for all classes is vickery.

Section One Schedule

Here is a link to the prompt.

***IF A PDF IS ROTATED THE WRONG WAY*** download it and open it in Chrome or Adobe, then right click it to rotate. You cannot rotate it unless you download (or at least...I don't know how to).

For MWF classes

January

No class the 19th for MLK day
21 – Teddy begins on page 69

23 – The Tyger and The Lamb

26 – "Walking on Water" by Madeleine L'Engle

28 – C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters

30 – Excerpt from “The Tao of Pooh”

February

2 – Selected poems of Khaled Mattawa - I'll hand these out in class.

4 – Plagiarism/Sources review

6 – "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov

9 – Creation Stories

11 – “Godfellas” watch in class

13 – “On a Hill Far Away” by Annie Dillard

For TR classes

January

20 – A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Teddy (which starts on page 69)
22 – The Tyger and The Lamb

27 – "Walking on Water" and C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters
29 –  C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters and "The Tao of Pooh"

February

3 – Selected poems of Khaled Mattawa (handout in class) and Plagiarism Review
5 – Sources review and "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov

10 – "Godfellas" watch in class and Creation Stories
12 – Creation Stories and "On a Hill Far Away" by Annie Dillard

Readings for Friday, January 16th

Read Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"

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