Cory, Allegory, Montessori...

For our second class, I'd like you to draw your own still life painting. Remember: it's an allegory. You don't have to worry about your artistic skills. Just be sure it's clear and figurative.

Be prepared for our timed writing about your summer reading on Friday and Monday.

Welcome to Exploring the Boundaries

Before we begin reading, I'd like you all to establish blogs here. Make sure to include your full name. You can choose whatever design and title you like; however, it should relate to the class. Don't worry if you're not too sure. You can always change it. When you've created your blog, leave a comment here.

In our second class you'll be tested on having read Dante's Inferno. Likewise, your Inferno dioramas will be due that day. I'll be talking about that at greater length in class today.

Next week, I'll go through the syllabus with all of you and answer any questions.

Final Paper Topics

Choose ONE of the following topics to write your final essay on

1- William Gass wrote an essay about Invisible Cites (posted on Sharepoint). Read the essay, then refute his thesis using text from the novel and Dante's Inferno.

2- Compare Waking Life to any two cities from Invisible Cities. You must include two screen shots that you closely analyse in terms of compostion. You should not simply compare them, but form an original thesis about these two works.

3- Apply Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm to Invisible Cities.

As stated in class several times, the paper must be between four and five pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 font. See rubric on Standard Score.

For any further questions e-mail me at jtangen@cng.edu.

Your essays must be in print in N7 no later than 9:30 am tomorrow. I look forward to reading them.

Want to play novel chess?

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/35/novelchess/

This Week

It its recommended that your read further into Leaves of Grass.

Bring in your final drafts of your short stories Wednesday.

Wednesday you will be given copies of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to read over break.

Leaves of Grass

Tonight read poems 1-10 of Leaves of Grass and write a response on your blog.

http://www.bartleby.com/142/14.html

Friday read poems 11-20 of Leave of Grass and write a response on your blog.

C'est Moi!

Tonight read chapters I-III in A Simple Soul and write one blog that focuses exclusively on stlye:

http://www.fullbooks.com/A-Simple-Soul.html

This weekend finish A Simple Soul and write one blog entry that again focuses on style.