| Week One Wed. 1/15 | Introduction to Course Introduction to Classroom/What is "Computer Assisted"? Hand out Policy Statement and Syllabus Introduction to our class page ASSIGNMENT: Purchase the texts listed on the policy statement Purchase two High Density (1.4 MB) 3.5" disks(get high quality) name brand disks as well as a plastic storage case Read on-line materials: Why Read Literature AND A Method for Interpreting Literature. |
Fri. 1/17 |
Pass out CA Quiz Explanation of Portfolio assessment. Creating your Learning Journal. Choose individual projects. Citing Sources. Using Internet Search Engines. ASSIGNMENT: Read Anne Bradstreet. The Author to Her Book (130). Meditations, Divine and Mortal (134).To My Dear Children (136). Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography (226-258). Begin work on the CA QUIZ (if time). which is due Wednesday 1/29/97. No Class on Monday. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday (Holiday) ASSIGNMENT: Read Olaudah Equiano. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written By Himself (355). Phyllis Wheatley. On Being Brought From Africa to America (372) |
Week Two Mon. 1/20 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday. Holiday. | Wed. 1/22 | Handout on Data formats.
Choose group projects. Creating your Learning Journal. Citing Sources. What is autobiography? Interchange on reading assignment. ASSIGNMENT: Write own autobiography. Start group proposal. Read Nathaniel Hawthorne. Young Goodman Brown (576) and introduction to Rappacini's Daughter (606-607).
Assignment: Write your autobiography: 2) Write a short autobiography of your life in the style of either Benjamin Franklin or Olaudah Equiano. This should be in first person and requires some reflectivity on your part. What style emerges in this type of writing?
Term of the Day: Personification |
Fri. 1/24 | Turn in your autobiography to the autobio folder inside my teacher folder. Your file should be named accordingly (lastname.filetype; like browning.rtf or browning.ms for microsoft word). Place another copy inside your own folder inside the students folder. Scanning Example Group Project Work Learning Journal ASSIGNMENT: Read Edgar Allan Poe. Annabel Lee (654). The Raven (648). The Fall of the House of Usher (664). Work on CA Quiz Two terms for today are simile and metaphor. First is simile, a stated comparison between things essentially unlike, as in "My love is like a red, red rose." This comparison sounds almost logical, but in fact it is not, for a woman could never be confused literally with a rose; the meaning, however, is more vividly and fully conveyed than in the literal paraphrase, "My beloved is beautiful." If the word like is removed from this simile, it becomes a metaphor, an unstated comparison between things essentially unlike and, in a literal sense, illogical. In metaphor, the things compared may be either named or implied. "Night's candles are burnt out" compares stars to candles. Emily Dickinson's poem, "I like to see it lap the miles," compares a railroad train to a horse, although neither is named. |
Week Three Mon. 1/27 |
Watch Biography on Poe Start learning journal ASSIGNMENT: CA QUIZ DUE on Wednesday by lab close Read Emily Dickinson. #465, #465 and #712 (poem numbers) I'll be in PAR 6 today during my office hours (11-1). I'll be happy to assist anyone who needs scanning help (the scanner is working ;). Term for today: Alliteration:The repetition of consonant sounds within a line or stanza, especially initial consonants. We passed the fields of grazing grain, We passed the setting sun. (From Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death") |
Wed. 1/29 | Twelfth class day CA Quiz DUE by lab close Author Presentations Using the on-line forum Learning Journal Brief discussion on interface Meet with Project Group ASSIGNMENT: Post at least two messages to the forum Read Mark Twain. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1195). How to Tell a Story (1387). Project Group Description is due by the end of class Friday. Term for the day: onomatopoeia:A word or the sue of a word whose sound suggests its meaning (e.g., buzz). "The plopping of waterdrops . . ." (From Amy Lowell's "Patterns) |
Fri. 1/31 | Presentation on Dickinson Scansion Exercise Interface and Design Issues Turn in group description to my teacher folder OR email me directly by 5 pm today. ASSIGNMENT: Read Walt Whitman. I Hear American Singing (handout). "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1104). "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (1017). "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1008). Allen Ginsberg. A Supermarket in California (2564). Terms for the day: Meter:The measure of a rhythm established bu the regular recurrence of a definite pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (each patterned set of syllables referred to as a metrical foot). The most common are iambic pentameter. Learn to determine Iambs, Trochees, Dactyls, Anapests, Amphibrachs, and Spondees. One defines meter of a poem by describing both the type of accent pattern used (the foot) and the number of feet in a line. One foot is a monometer Two is a Dimeter Three is a Trimeter Four is a Tetrameter Five is a Pentameter Six is a Hexameter Seven is a Heptameter Eight is a Octameter Rhyme Scheme: The pattern in which rhymes are arranged in a poem, with each new rhyme is given a letter (start with a). Because I could not stop for Death ì (a) He kindly stopped for me (b) The Carriage held but just Ourselves (c) And Immortality. (b) |
Week Four Mon. 2/3 |
Information regarding narrowing a search Scansion Handout/Exercise Discussion of Twain. Interface Cont. Assignment: Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1571). Revisions of autobiographies due Friday by end of class. Place copy in teacher folder, inside the revisions folder inside the autobio folder. Revisions of group proposals also due Friday by 5 pm. Other announcements: The Macromedia Tutorials are in PAR 6 (in the cabinet). It's called Macromedia Teaches Director. Start with the CD/manual on learning Director before moving on to Lingo. There is also a save-disabled version of Director along with a Learning Director manual inside a manila envelope (it‚s clearly labeled). You may copy this onto your own zip if you like (and I‚ll get one set up for check-out/taking home soon). Terms for the day: When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wiseman say . . . (From Housman's "When I Was One-and-Twenty") First line is an example of a a feminine ending: where an extra syllable, unstressed, is added to the end of a metrical line in iambic or anapestic meter. It adds lightness to the line.
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Wed. 2/5 | Whitman presentation Interface Handout Reading discussion ASSIGNMENT: Read "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" off the link list. Read Interface Handout. Read W.E.B. DuBois. The Souls of Black Folk (1598). Stephen Crane. Do Not Weep Maiden, For War is Kind (1648). A Man Said to the Universe (1649). Revisions due on Friday. Term for the day: stanza:An arrangement of two, three, four or more lines of verse in a fixed metrical and rhyming pattern. |
Fri. 2/7 | Gilman Presentation. Turn in Autobiography Revisions to Teacher Folder:Browning, T:Autobio:Revisions E-Mail Group Revisions to me by 5 pm and make sure a copy is placed in your group folder in my teacher folder Gilman presentation Interface design w/groups ASSIGNMENT: Post two messages to the class forum on Gilman. Read Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." Terms for the day: Utopia was the title of a book about an imaginary commonwealth, written in Latin (1515) by Sir Thomas More. The title comes from a combination of Greek words, "outopia" (no place) and "eutopia" (good place); and has come to signify a class of fiction which represents an ideal, nonexistent political state. Transcendentalism - A philosophical and literary movement centered in Concord and Boston, which was prominent in the cultural life of New England from 1836 until the Civil War. A quarterly periodical, The Dial, printed many of the early essays by its proponents. What Transcendentalists shared was an opposition to rigid rationalism; to the empirical philosophy of John Locke; which derived all knowledge from sense impressions; to highly formalized religions; and to the social conformity, materialism and commercialism they found increasingly dominant in American life. They were characterized by their ethics of individualism that stressed self-trust, self-reliance; a turn from modern society; and a faith in a divine "Spirit" (Emerson called it "Over-Soul") which is shared by mankind and the cosmos. Some advocates: Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Elizabeth Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau (Walden), Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Blithedale Romance was a retelling of a Transcendentalist Utopia called Brooks Farm), Walt Whitman (assimilated some of its elements) and later the counterculture of the 1960s (like Ginsberg). |
Week Five Mon. 2/10 |
Presentations on Du Bois and Crane Brief Discussion of Readings Finish Group Interface Design If you would like to purchase a CD-R, please bring $7.50 on Wednesday. Note: The list of readings below is longer than the one in the original syllabus. ASSIGNMENT: Read Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken (1771). Out, Out. Fire and Ice (1774). Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. (1775). Design. Desert Places (1777). Wallace Stevens. Anecdote of the Jar. (1804). William Carlos Williams. The Red Wheelbarrow (1825). This is Just to Say (1826). H. D. Mid-Day (1849). Oread. Helen (1850). Ezra Pound. In a Station of the Metro. The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter (1835). The Cantos (1844). T.S.Eliot. The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock (1869). Journey of the Magi (1892). Choose one line or stanza from the poems above. Bring in a picture or sound on Wednesday that helps illustrate it and a written rationale (1-2 paragraphs) for your choice. Must have bibliographic material for credit.
Term for the day:
Irony and specifically, verbal irony - A statement in which the speaker's implicit meaning differs sharply from the meaning that is ostensibly expressed.
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Wed. 2/12 |
Turn in your responses to the poems in your student folder. Place them in a folder called Poetic Responses. Also, make sure you have a hard copy to bring to the table.
Author Presentations http://www.amazon.com is the address for ordering more books. Give group interface designs to the Interface Explorer Group
ASSIGNMENT:
Read Langston Hughes. The Negro Speaks of Rivers (2100). Mulatto (2101). Song for Dark Girl (2102).
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Fri. 2/14 | For Friday, Feb. 14, 1997 HD, Pound and T.S. Eliot presentations. Bring your picture/response to the table if you haven't shown it yet. Assignment: Read Countee Cullen. Yet Do I Marvel. Incident. Heritage (2117). Angelina Grimke. The Black Finger (1815). Work on group project. Modernism - The term refers to the style of literature after World War I. One major feature of modernism is that of an avant-garde (military metaphor of "advance guard"); a small, self-conscious group of authors who attempt to introduce new subjects and subvert old ones. Ezra Pound said such a group attempts to "make it new." The literary modernists attempted to render disorder instead of the stable social order that had existed before the war. By resisting conventions in narrative continuity and violating traditional syntax through stream of consciousness narration, modernists broke new ground in literary construction (they have parallels in violations of standard conventions of melody, harmony, and rhythm by modernist musical composers Stravinsky, Schoenberg and their followers). In honor of Valentine's Day, one of my favorite love poems by an American writer, e. e. cummings (1894-1962) now air is air and thing is thing:no bliss of heavenly earth beguiles our spirits, whose miraculously disenchanted eyes live the magnificent honesty of space. Mountains are mountains now; skies now are skies¶ and such a sharpening freedom lifts our blood as if whole supreme this complete doubtless universe we'd (and we alone) made ¶yes; or as if our souls, awakened from summer's green trance, would not adventure soon a deeper magic: that white sleep wherein all human curiosity we'll spend (gladly, as lovers must) immortal and the courage to receive time's mightiest dream |
Week Six Mon. 2/17 |
Brief discussion of T. S. Eliot, Grimke. Presentations on Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. The Harlem Renaissance. ASSIGNMENT: Read Turner's 1975 Intro to Cane (121) and 1923 Intro to Cane by Waldo Frank (128). Be prepared to compare and contrast the two introductions for Wednesday's class. Post at least 2 responses to the class forum on the Modernists off our web site before our class on Wednesday. Please do not wait until the last minute. The site will be up at 1 pm today. Term for the day Epigram: A brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point. Epigrams are most often written in couplets, but take no prescribed form. What Is an Epigram? What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ¶Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1802) Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small. |
Wed. 2/19 | Cane Discussion. First Arc. ASSIGNMENT: Cane cont. (41-80). Write response to this section. Bring in soft copy. |
Fri. 2/21 | Cane as hypertext
Introduction to Director. Give any interface designs you haven't turned in yet to Sharron or Kris. ASSIGNMENT: Read Jean Toomer's Cane cont. (41-80). Post at least two responses to the class forum before class on Monday. The forum is called Modernists. Hypertext - In his 1945 article "As We May Think," Vannevar Bush called for an electronic system which could link various blocks of text. Bush proposed the "memex," a conceptual machine capable of storing vast amounts of data and allowing users to create information "trails": links of related text and information that could be stored separately. Two decades after Bush, Theodor Holm Nelson coined the phrase "hypertext." More recently, Nelson has referred to such linked information systems as "non-sequential writing." In Literary Machines (1981/4) Nelson posits a system called "Xanadu" in which a user could build a "hypertext" - a document consisting of linked "nodes." He defines a link as a "connection between parts of text or other material. It is put in by a human. Links are made by individuals as pathways for the reader's exploration; thus they are part of the actual document, part of the writing." A node is a discrete unit of information like text, graphics, sound, or video. Nodes can contain links to other nodes. Nelson uses the term "docuverse" to describe the ongoing and infinite linking of this collective text. Today's World Wide Web - a body of information that follows standardized protocols - allows the reader to move or "link" directly from one document to others. These documents may be texts, images, movies, or sounds. |
Week Seven Mon. 2/24 | Read Kabnis. ASSIGNMENT: Forum responses are due by 5 pm today. I've read some good comments already. I will discuss my expectations for the portfolio assessment on Friday. I will also bring some kind of example for you to see. What I expect for group presentations next week: A clear description of your group project with a breakdown of each group member's task. Each member will speak in turn about his or her individual topic. This is similar to the author presentation where you show a picture or two in addition to discussing your research. Each group will be limited to seven minutes apiece (NO EXCEPTIONS), so KEEP IT BRIEF. I expect a soft copy of each person's rough draft (I will edit these over the break) will be turned in on Wednesday, Mar. 5. All of your project group timelines (w/the exception of the Women Writers of Color group who list 3/17) list this week as a deadline for those drafts, so I'd like to read over them. All I want is the text version with notes about other media. For example: The tale of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox has a specific regional correspondence [Insert map of area here]. This story is set in the Northwest . . . Several folks have asked how long these should be and there's no exact answer. However, these are comparable to a 12-15 pp research paper, so you should have at least 10 sources and at least 7 typed pages (Other media and organization of the entire project will take up the rest). |
Wed. 2/26 | Reminder about biographical projects. CD-Rs. Questions about group project presentations? Portfolio discussion Friday. Be sure to read over the material before asking questions. Virus Fix. Mapping Cane. Discussion of Cane.
ASSIGNMENT: Pick one of the critical pieces and write a short summary (1-2 paragraphs) of the author's claim as well as your own response to their thesis.
Terms for today: Macro viruses are different than other types of viruses which infect a machine or a file and then proceed to infect any other files, disks, machines that they come in contact with. The word macro virus (as you guessed from it's title) is carried only on microsoft word files and specifically in macros saved as parts of template files--that's how the virus propogates. You open an infected file and it loads it's macros into your copy of MS Word. Then when you save any files from that infected copy of word, they are saved with the virus intact, ready to infect another machine. Ok, to clean a file of a virus, the easiest way is to run Macafee virus scan (30 day copies available from http://www.mcafee.com/down/vscandown.html), and then don't open the file with an infected copy of MS word. Once the copy of MS word on a machine is infected, it needs to be cleaned as well. But you can also get rid of all macro viruses from a copy of word by deleting it's"normal" or (for a PC) "normal.dot" template file. This is what happens whenever you reboot any of our machines that are on labman. What's good about this is that whenever you logout of an infected machine, it gets cleaned automatically. That way you only have to worry about cleaning infected files before you use them again. In addition, once you infect MS Word by opening an infected file (usually, you don't even know you're doing this), all the files you create on that machine will be infected, and all those files and that machine's copy of MS Word will need to be cleaned by whatever means you have at your disposal before you use them again. |
Fri. 2/28 |
Portfolio information. Here is a link to Dr. Syverson's On-line learning record
as well as the relevant class portfolioinformation.
Discuss Cane.
Post response to the critical pieces in the correct interchange. ASSIGNMENT: Work on group projects and on-line portfolios. |
Week Eight Mon. 3/3 | Schedule time to open PAR 6 tomorrow Any portfolio questions? Creating a portfolio folder inside my teacher folder. Cane Cont. Post response to interchange. There are two interchanges, Cane as Blues and Redemption in Cane. Go to Activity menu & choose Interchange. A new menu will appear at the top (The "main" interchange will appear as well. Do not post to it). Go to the Interchange menu at the top and select "join a conference." Copy and paste your response into the appropriate conference and then discuss your work with your classmates. If time, groups will meet. ASSIGNMENT: Work on your portfolios and group projects. Presentations on Wednesday will be in this order: Religion in American Lit, The Lit of Wars, 20th C. Lit & Music Experience, 20th c. Women Writers of Color, Tall Tales, and Interface Explorers. If you are late, you do not receive credit and we will be starting with the bell. Strict time limits will be observed. Seven minutes for each project group with the exception of the Music Group“they will receive 10 minutes since they're larger. |
Wed. 3/5 | Mid-Term Project Reports to the class.
ASSIGNMENT: Read over the interchange and prepare to complete when we return. |
Fri. 3/8 | Mid-Term Portfolios are due in my teacher folder before 10 a.m.
No class today Have a Good Spring Break |
Spring Break 3/10-3/14
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Week Nine Mon. 3/17 |
Discussion of handouts/assignments Finish mid-semester presentations Moderation assignment. ASSIGNMENT: Read info about ZNH in your textbook pp. 1982-1986 Read handout on "Looking for ZNH" by Alice Walker and New Yorker article. Make sure you have a copy of the book for Wednesday. Work on biography revisions and group projects. |
Wed. 3/19 | Discuss readings. Work on Moderation assignment. ASSIGNMENT: Begin Her Eyes Were Watching God. Ch. 1-4 (pp1-32). Moderation responses due Friday. You will receive my response to your self-assessment on Monday.
Moderation Assignment:
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Fri. 3/21 | Discuss readings. Turn in moderations to me. Either e-mail it as an attachment or place a copy inside the teacher folder in the folder labeled "moderations." Interchange. Group Meeting. Revise schedule and give me a copy to post. ASSIGNMENT: Read chapters 5-13 in Her Eyes Were Watching God. Work on group projects. |
Week Ten Mon. 3/24 | Moderation information. Discuss readings. Group Meeting. Revise schedule and give me a copy to post. ASSIGNMENT: Read chapters 14-17 in Her Eyes Were Watching God. Ch. 13-17 (pp174-227) |
Wed.3/26 | Discuss project group deadlines. Discuss file hierarchy. Discuss readings. E-Exercise. ASSIGNMENT: Finish TEWWG. Post at least two messages to the class forum called Hurston. (Friday's Assignment will be to read William Faulkner. "A Rose for Emily" (2044). Alice Walker. "Everyday Use" (2376).)
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Fri. 3/28 | Discuss ending of text. Compare to Cane. ASSIGNMENT: Read William Faulkner. A Rose for Emily (2044). Alice Walker. Everyday Use (2376). Compare Faulkner to Poe or Walker. Bring soft copy to class. |
Week Eleven Mon. 3/31 |
Southern Literary Tradition. Bring in comparison. ASSIGNMENT: Read Sylvia Plath. Lady Lazarus (2608). Child (2614). Pursuit (handout). Denise Levertov. The Jacob's Ladder (2528). |
Wed.4/2 | Connections Assignment. Discussion of relevant intersecting material.
Contemporary Poets ASSIGNMENT: Read Audre Lorde. Coal (2616). From the House of Yemanja (2618). Adrienne Rich. Diving into the Wreck (2594). Cathy Song. Heaven (2656). Li-Young Lee. Persimmons (2659). |
Fri 4/4 | Discussion of contemporary poets. Short Stories ASSIGNMENT: Read Flannery O'Connor. Good Country People (2270)..Read Maxine Hong Kingston. No Name Woman (2366). N. Scott Mamaday. From the Way to Rainy Mountain (2326) |
Week Twelve Mon. 4/7 |
The Canon of American Literature. ASSIGNMENT: Read LeGuin. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (handout). |
Wed. 4/9 | Discussion of utopias (American in particular. In-class group project to build a utopian culture. ASSIGNMENT: Read Orson Scott Card. (handout). |
Fri. 4/11 | Discussion of genre fiction. ASSIGNMENT: Group project work. |
Week Thirteen
Mon. 4/14 | Project Work | Week Fourteen Mon. 4/21 |
Project Work | Wed. 4/23 | Projects Due. Project Presentations |
Fri. 4/25 | Project Presentations ASSIGNMENT: Bring Tonya recordable CD-ROM. |
Final Week of Class Mon. 4/28 |
Link director files. Finish class Hypermedia | Wed. 4/30 | Work on final portfolio. | Fri. 5/2 | Last Day of Class Final Portfolio DUE. |