fall 2023 Prof L Overman's English 355 mondays

These schedules are all subject to change. Reading and writing assignments are to be completed by the date assigned. Bring pertinent materials to class (books, homework, etc). Always come prepared to write about, be quizzed on, and/or discuss all assignments. Always have handouts available for reference.

Introductions, Syllabus, Semester Plan, Annotating texts, Freewrites

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Literary elements of analysis

What are they? What layers do they add to the story? How to annotate a text?

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Canvas: Review Presentation Prompt in Presentation Module

Canvas Reading done in Class:

"Encounters With Unexpected Animals " (132), "Love and other Castastrophes: A Mix Tape" (127) "Slide to Unlock " (138)

"Using Highlighting Symbols" (19)

Review & Bring Handout from Projects link above:

1. Annotating a TEXT

Due in class:

• In Canvas-Complete "Choose your Presentation Survey"-- by 645PM tonight!
• Be ready to read & write, discuss, share in groups during class

Due outside of class:

1. Due prior to class Mon 9/11 -Complete Survey to choose your presentation complete in Canvas/Survey Quizzes module

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1. Bring Literature: Reading Writing 9th ed. Textbook!
2. Sign Up for Presentations!

Print out Schedule & Syllabus bring to class

• Analyzing Short Stories
• Formalism
• Structuralism
• How to Write an Essay about Short Stories

Homework:Readings done prior to Class

1. "Reading Fiction" (179) & "Previewing" & "Writing About Fiction"(184-196)
2. "Interpreting & Evaluating Literature"(8-15)
3. "Reading & Writing About Literature"(16-31)
4. "Responding to a Short Story" (36-42)
5. Presentation Prompt: Canvas Presentation Module
6. "The Secret Lion" (180-184) highlight/annotate as discussed
   in text Alberto Alvaro Rios
7. "Plot" (198-200)
8. "A Rose for Emily"(224 & 233) Faulkner
9. "Character"(235)
10. "A & P" (238) Updike
11. Formalism (1661) & Handout in Canvas Additional Readings module
12. Structuralism (1671) & Handout in Canvas Additional Readings module

Review & download following Handouts from Projects link above:

1. Short Story Worksheet
2. How to Write a Short Story Analysis
3. How to Read Literature
4. Plot

Due in class:

• If you have not already--Complete- Choose your Presentation Survey -complete in Canvas/Survey Quizzes module 645PM tonight

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays due Thursdays 11:55 p.m prior to subsequent class

• Shortwrite 1--See Canvas Shortwrites module for prompts

  Upload as a Word file in MLA format1-2 pages typed

  Always bring printed copies of ALL posted responses to class

   

   

Feminism, Deconstruction

Analyzing Theme,Setting, Style, Tone and Language - What do they tell us about the story? What layers do they add to the story?

1. Feminism (1665): & Handout in Canvas Additional Readings module
2. Deconstruction (1673:) & Handout in Canvas Additional Readings module
3. "Setting" (269)
4. Presentation Response Guidelines: in Canvas Presentation Response Module
5. "Style, Tone, Language" (355-361)
6. Group Presentation: Daniel Preciado, Kaitlyn Martinez "This is What it Means to say Phoenix, Arizona" (278) ShermanAlexie
7. Group Presentation:Serli Amirchian"Araby" (361) James Joyce
8. "Theme" (459)
9. "The Rocking Horse Winner (484) Lawrence
10. Canvas: Essay 1 prompt in Major Essays module     

Due in class:

• Presentation Response

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays dueThursdays 11:55 p.m prior to subsequent class

• Shortwrite 2--Log on to Canvas
  Upload as a Word file in MLA format
  1-2 pages typed
  Always bring printed copies of ALL posted responses to class

Reader Response Criticism

Symbol, Allegory, Myth, POV-What layers do they bring to the story and our analysis of it?

Writer’s Workshop:Creating an Outline

1. "Symbol, Allegory, Myth" (407-412)
2. Group Presentation:Eric Flores "Cathedral" (435) Carver
3. Reader-Response Crit (1663): & Handout Canvas Additional Readings module
4. "Point of View" (309-317)
5. Group Presentation: Natalie Grill,Jasmine Matthews "New York Day Women " (348) Danticat
6. Read ALL Selections from Essay 1 List
7. "Writing about Literature" (21-35)

Print, read, bring handouts from Projects link above:

1. Essays Expectations

Due in class:

• PRIOR to class due in Canvas Essay 1: Scratch Outline/Thesis---- follow examples modeled for you on 188-192
• Reply to each assigned group member's Scratch Outline/Thesisdraft 
• Presentation Response

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays due Thursdays 11:55 p.m prior to subsequent class

• Click on Dicussion 1 due for this week read prompt & reply.
• Must also post a minimum of TWO replies to classmates.

Grappling with the graphic novel vs memoir

“Achtung,” a German officer shouted. “Attention.” Fifteen-year-old Henry Oster, then called Heinz, lined up with his mother in a Lodz ghetto courtyard on a mid-August day in 1944. . . "

VS

1. "Graphic" Fiction" (143)
2. Review Scott McCloud on Comics
3. Canvas: "Bangs Ten Principles of Design" & "Nodleman's Words About Pictures" Additional Readings module
4. Canvas: "Citation Style of Graphic Narrative" Additional Readings module
5. Canvas: Graphic Terms Additional Readings module
6. Spiegleman: "Maus excerpt" (166-170)
7. Maus II by Art Spiegelman
8. The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: I survived the Holocaust interview with Dr. Henry Oster
9. Dexter Ford
10. 

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays due Thursdays 11:55 p.m prior to subsequent class:

1. Essay 1 Due

   Upload final draft in turnitin.com via Canvas