I really appreciated reading all of your essays, poems and notes this week. What an amazing group we have here in our little class! I look forward to more days of study and discovery. Attached is the little treatise I delivered today about how "scientific" the study of literature is. I am sure there are authors rolling in their graves over this analogy, but I also think it is helpful to think about how we study the humanities in a serious way. Literary Analysis Analogy
Please enjoy the foibles of Candide and the wicked wit of one of the best satirists in history, Voltaire.
Mrs. E
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
It's Going to get Silly in here!
Hey, I was so happy to have the discussion today about literary terms and how to pronounce them-- you blew some of the dust and the rust off of my vocabulary brain cells-- most excellent!
Here are the tasks at hand:
1- Please write the essay comparing Medea and Oedipus unless you read and presented for Medea.
2- Try to get me any Glossary entries-- you can email them-- that you feel are missing from your return pile, and I will look at them right away.
3- Get ready for lots of satire, Voltaire's Candide, and a new way to read him--coming Monday!
4- I will get your previous essays back to you by Monday--thanks for understanding!
Have a great weekend,
Mrs. E
Here are the tasks at hand:
1- Please write the essay comparing Medea and Oedipus unless you read and presented for Medea.
2- Try to get me any Glossary entries-- you can email them-- that you feel are missing from your return pile, and I will look at them right away.
3- Get ready for lots of satire, Voltaire's Candide, and a new way to read him--coming Monday!
4- I will get your previous essays back to you by Monday--thanks for understanding!
Have a great weekend,
Mrs. E
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Great Lady, Scary Attitude!
Thank you so much, Medea researchers, for your presentation on this frightening and feminist Greek gal. No Oedipus Essay for you!
EVERYONE: Finish the Second Episode of Oedipus Rex (Oedipus, The King) by the time class starts on Friday.
Thanks!
Mrs. E
EVERYONE: Finish the Second Episode of Oedipus Rex (Oedipus, The King) by the time class starts on Friday.
Thanks!
Mrs. E
Catching Up!
Thanks for your patience while I catch up on blogging.
Hey, this week we investigated creative re-tellings of the Icarus Myth and, coincidentally, worked on examining/analyzing graphic images: we discussed point of view, narrative perspective and voice regards images and poems-- whew!
HOMEWORK: Due Wednseday
1- Turn in the text from a William Carlos Williams poem (NOT The Red Wheelbarrow or This is Just to Say), and also to
2- Write a poem about the Icarus story in the imagist style of Williams.
PLEASE remember that imagery appeals to any or all the senses, not just sight.
Hey, this week we investigated creative re-tellings of the Icarus Myth and, coincidentally, worked on examining/analyzing graphic images: we discussed point of view, narrative perspective and voice regards images and poems-- whew!
HOMEWORK: Due Wednseday
1- Turn in the text from a William Carlos Williams poem (NOT The Red Wheelbarrow or This is Just to Say), and also to
2- Write a poem about the Icarus story in the imagist style of Williams.
PLEASE remember that imagery appeals to any or all the senses, not just sight.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)