This document provides an agenda and notes for an EWRT 1C class on Elie Wiesel's Night. The agenda includes finishing discussion of Night, exploring its themes, literary style, and tensions. Notes cover Night's narrative point of view, use of allusion, relationship to the bildungsroman genre, and potential theoretical lenses for analyzing passages, including New Criticism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Trauma Theory. Students are assigned to finish reading Night and post a discussion question analyzing a passage through one of these theoretical perspectives. They are also instructed to think about Night's themes and tensions for an upcoming essay assignment analyzing aspects of a novel or novella through an extrinsic theoretical lens.
Prof. Rodas' lecture notes present an overview of key points and themes in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, including a comparison between the way Bromden's character is represented in the book versus the film.
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Prof. Rodas' lecture notes present an overview of key points and themes in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, including a comparison between the way Bromden's character is represented in the book versus the film.
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The Five Moves of Analysis(aka The Most Important Thing You Will.docxoreo10
The Five Moves of Analysis
(aka The Most Important Thing You Will Ever Learn)
1. Suspend Judgment: Set aside your likes and dislikes, your agreeing or disagreeing. Say to yourself, “What I find most interesting here is...”.
2. Notice and Focus: Simply put, pay close attention to details. “What do you notice?” What is significant/interesting/revealing/ strange. Slow down and take your time here. Don’t jump to interpretations before you’ve exhausted the details. Uncertainty is good.
3. Look for Patterns: Start sifting through the text looking for Repetitions, Strands, Binaries, and Anomalies.
Repetitions: sheep dog in "How to Talk to a Hunter"
Strands: Animals in "How to Talk to a Hunter," alcohol in "Sonny's Blues"
Binaries: Light/Dark in "Sonny's Blues," young/old in "One of Star Wars, One of Doom"
Anomalies: Mysterious notebook in "One of Star Wars, One of Doom," tin of chocolates with Santa Claus "fondling" children painted on it in "How to Talk to a Hunter"
4. Make the Implicit Explicit: Explain to the reader what the details or the patterns imply. Explain your thought process. Pull out the implications and show them why you think they are “folded in” to the meaning of the text or image. What does this mean and So What? Why is it important?
5. Keep Reformulating Questions and Explanations: What else might this detail or pattern mean? How else could it be explained? What details don’t fit my theory? Can I adjust my theory to better fit with this?
Prepping the Final Paper
Take a minute to re-read the assignment sheet for Paper 3. Then choose which prompt you would like to focus on for your paper. Once you have chosen your prompt, I would like you to go through the book and identify the scenes that you think link to your topic in an interesting way. Now…
1. List the scenes you have chosen, e.g. “Scene #1: The scene in which Oscar is taken into the cane and beaten.”
2. Carefully gather details from your chosen scenes. These should include both individual details you find interesting or bizarre, AND binaries, strands, repetitions, and anomalies. Use the skills we’ve practiced all quarter long to gather these. Write them down. For example, “Oscar’s hands are ‘seamless’ in the dream.’
3. Now spend some time pulling multiple implications out of as many details as you can. For instance, “Seamless hands = brand new, no history, no fingerprints so no traces, like a blank page.”
4. Choose your six juiciest, most interesting and analytically rich details and type them up in a list that includes implications.
5. Use your detail-analysis to develop a working thesis. This is your own analytical theory about what is going on in the scenes you’ve chosen. What have you uncovered and why is it significant? Write that thesis down.
My answer
1. Scene
#1: The scene in which Oscar’s dead at the beginning.
#2: The scene in which the narrator is not Yunior in chapter 2.
#3: Narrating the identity of Yunior.
#4: Using footn ...
First, see attached for a sample paper Research Paper_Short”. .docxclydes2
First, see attached for a sample paper “Research Paper_Short”.
It was submitted by a student of mine last semester and is shared with you with his permission. Reviewing it should give you a sense of what you're aiming for with your own work. A couple things to keep in mind as you work:
· The overview of the six articles (references) is the biggest portion of your paper. After setting up your general argument in your intro (which you may not know until you've written the whole thing, so feel free to write that last), proceed one by one through the articles you found. It's best to cover these chronologically. Here you'll want to lead with a succinct, specific statement of the article's argument. Then you'll unpack that argument and (objectively) explain how the critic made his or her case. Avoid quoting from the articles, as that will only take up space and will draw readers' attention away from your explanation. This is the time for careful analysis and explication--what are the premises of the argument, what assumptions (about literature, about interpretation) does the author draw on, what seem to be his or her primary concerns and how do you know? Write about a page for each of your articles.
· In the next section (3 pages or so), assess and evaluate the arguments. It's best to organize this section thematically--what resonances did you see across the arguments; what kinds of conclusions were drawn, which are the strongest and why, which the weakest and why; how and why did folks tend to disagree? Make sure you explain your conclusions when you talk about the solid or weak interpretations you read or whether a conclusion is interesting--be sure you unpack what that means. Still stay away from quoting over-much here. You can assume your reader is familiar with the articles and the novel; just be sure you provide enough context so readers can follow along.
· In the final section (3 pages or so), you'll offer your own interpretation as derived from your engagement with these articles and the novel itself. Don't do any additional research for this portion of your essay. The idea is that after seeing what others have done with the book, weighing and measuring those arguments, and with familiarity of the text itself, you should have drawn your own conclusions about the book--lay them out here.
With all of this, don't forget about foundational writing elements like a strong thesis to unify the paper, coherent paragraphs, engaging style, and proper grammar. Look back over your returned papers to this point for any feedback I've offered on these points.
Research
Paper_Short (1).docx
11
Short
Joseph Short
Marybeth Baggett
ENGL603
6 October 2019
From the Postmodern to the Psychoanalytic: Critical Studies of Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1968 novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, is a relatively recent addition to the literary canon, transitioning from a censored work—subject to the whims of book burners—to must-read fiction in its half century on .
First, see attached for a sample paper Research Paper_Short”. .docxbryanwest16882
First, see attached for a sample paper “Research Paper_Short”.
It was submitted by a student of mine last semester and is shared with you with his permission. Reviewing it should give you a sense of what you're aiming for with your own work. A couple things to keep in mind as you work:
· The overview of the six articles (references) is the biggest portion of your paper. After setting up your general argument in your intro (which you may not know until you've written the whole thing, so feel free to write that last), proceed one by one through the articles you found. It's best to cover these chronologically. Here you'll want to lead with a succinct, specific statement of the article's argument. Then you'll unpack that argument and (objectively) explain how the critic made his or her case. Avoid quoting from the articles, as that will only take up space and will draw readers' attention away from your explanation. This is the time for careful analysis and explication--what are the premises of the argument, what assumptions (about literature, about interpretation) does the author draw on, what seem to be his or her primary concerns and how do you know? Write about a page for each of your articles.
· In the next section (3 pages or so), assess and evaluate the arguments. It's best to organize this section thematically--what resonances did you see across the arguments; what kinds of conclusions were drawn, which are the strongest and why, which the weakest and why; how and why did folks tend to disagree? Make sure you explain your conclusions when you talk about the solid or weak interpretations you read or whether a conclusion is interesting--be sure you unpack what that means. Still stay away from quoting over-much here. You can assume your reader is familiar with the articles and the novel; just be sure you provide enough context so readers can follow along.
· In the final section (3 pages or so), you'll offer your own interpretation as derived from your engagement with these articles and the novel itself. Don't do any additional research for this portion of your essay. The idea is that after seeing what others have done with the book, weighing and measuring those arguments, and with familiarity of the text itself, you should have drawn your own conclusions about the book--lay them out here.
With all of this, don't forget about foundational writing elements like a strong thesis to unify the paper, coherent paragraphs, engaging style, and proper grammar. Look back over your returned papers to this point for any feedback I've offered on these points.
Research
Paper_Short (1).docx
11
Short
Joseph Short
Marybeth Baggett
ENGL603
6 October 2019
From the Postmodern to the Psychoanalytic: Critical Studies of Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1968 novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, is a relatively recent addition to the literary canon, transitioning from a censored work—subject to the whims of book burners—to must-read fiction in its half century on .
ENG125 Introduction to Literature Critical Literary .docxYASHU40
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
Critical Literary Theories
Purpose: Use this resource to learn about literary criticism.
What is literary criticism?
Literary Critical Theory is a tool that helps you find meaning in stories, poems and plays. There are many
different ways to interpret a novel or short story.
When we read literature, we do so to learn more about:
The human condition
The experience of loss and death
The structure of power in society and how it is implemented (including the issues that surround
race and gender).
The psychology of characters and individuals in general
The sociology and history of cultures that produce specific pieces of literature
Literary Theory helps us discover the things listed above in the books and stories we read.
How do I apply Literary Critical Theory to read a book?
So how do you use theory to read a book? Before exploring, in brief, different theories, it is important to
develop a reading strategy that will help you form ideas.
Woman Reading Book in a Landscape, Camille Corot
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
You should keep a reading notebook and write down ideas and information as you read. Here is a
checklist of things to notice:
Title: How does it pertain to the story? Does it symbolize events or people in the story?
Narration: Who is telling the story? How does the narrator approach the topic?
Subject: What is the basic situation? What is happening to the characters and how are they reacting
to events?
Mood: What is the mood of the story, i.e. the emotional background? How is it expressed in the
language and setting?
Characters: What do the characters learn in the course of the story? What are their failings and how
do they overcome them, or not? What is the main character’s desire? Is that desire ever
fulfilled? How does the main character change?
Character Interaction: How do the characters interact in the story? How do they communicate
with each other? How do they handle conflict?
Plot: What are the main events in the plot that lead the character to new insights, or to his or her
failure?
When you read a book, you can highlight the passages that strike you as significant. You can also write
notes in the margin of the text to yourself, which is called “annotation.”
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
What are the Critical Literary Theories?
There are many different kinds of theories, including gender/feminist criticism; race theory; Marxist;
Biographical; Deconstructism; Structrualism; Post-colonial critical theory. However, the four Critical
Literary Theories that we will learn about in this class include:
Formalism or New Criticism
Reader Response Theory
Psychological Theory
New Historicism Analysis
What is Formalism Theory or New Criticism?
This approach views each piece of literature as “a unique form of human know ...
ENG125 Introduction to Literature How to Ask an Open-Ended .docxYASHU40
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
How to Ask an Open-Ended Question
There are two ways of asking questions: close-ended and open-ended.
Close-ended questions
· Can be answered with either a single word or a short phrase such as “yes” or “no.”
· Are easy to answer and provide no details or analysis.
· Do not encourage in-depth or long-range thinking.
Open-ended questions
· Are likely to receive an in-depth, detailed answer.
· Ask the respondent to think and reflect on what he or she has read.
· Encourage critical thinking that leads the respondent to think beyond the reading assignment.
· Usually begin with “how,” “why,” or “what.”
Examples:
Close-Ended
Open-Ended
Do you get along well with your supervisor?
How do you view your relationship with your supervisor?
Who will you vote for in this election?
What do you think about the two candidates in this election?
Did you like that story we read for this week?
What did you think of the story we read for this week?
Did the protagonist act unwisely in the story?
Why did the protagonist make the choices she did?
Did you understand Macbeth?
What were the consequences of Macbeth’s actions?
General Open-Ended Question Template
· What do you think about?
· In what way does the story/poem?
· How would you interpret the character’s______?
· How did the ending?
· What was the problem?
· Why did the story/poem ?
· Why did the character react?
· What did it mean when?
· How does the symbolism?
· What kind of conflict?
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
Critical Literary Theories
Purpose: Use this resource to learn about literary criticism.
What is literary criticism?
Literary Critical Theory is a tool that helps you find meaning in stories, poems and plays. There are many
different ways to interpret a novel or short story.
When we read literature, we do so to learn more about:
The human condition
The experience of loss and death
The structure of power in society and how it is implemented (including the issues that surround
race and gender).
The psychology of characters and individuals in general
The sociology and history of cultures that produce specific pieces of literature
Literary Theory helps us discover the things listed above in the books and stories we read.
How do I apply Literary Critical Theory to read a book?
So how do you use theory to read a book? Before exploring, in brief, different theories, it is important to
develop a reading strategy that will help you form ideas.
Woman Reading Book in a Landscape, Camille Corot
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
You should keep a reading notebook and write down ideas and information as you read. Here is a
checklist of things to notice:
Title: How does it pertain to the story? Does it symbolize events or people in the story?
Narration: Who is telling the story? How does the narrator approach the topic?
Subject: What is the basic situatio ...
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A case can be made that since the main basis of "The Theory" of evolution is the "Self-preservation principle". That is, how could the propagation of the a specie be enhanced by the demeaning action of a group against its constituents and even self-against-self. The only explanation is that humas were created and not a result of a random sett of actions causing consciousness arriving from non-conscious matter. Life comes from life, and intelligence (DNA), comes from intelligence. This book can be contrasted with: The Lucifer Effect Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo' and also with the Bible for a view of The Meaning of Life from ancient to contemporary writings for balance understanding of the physical (Psyche) to the metaphysical (Spiritual). We can view the human condition as the effect of gravity of interacting physical objects and human interaction as the response to spiritual influence (angels and demons).
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These are the readings that need to be chosen fromYou can find.docxchristalgrieg
These are the readings that need to be chosen from
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The first one has already been pasted for you
Week One: Identity and Post - Civil War Poetry
1. Emily Dickinson," I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
2. Walt Whitman: Author Bio
3. Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
4. Walt Whitman, "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
Week Two: Social Realism, gendered/feminist criticism, and how to write about literature.
Mark Twain: Author Bio
Mark Twain, War Prayer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Author Bio
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper:
Robert Frost: Author Bio
Robert Frost: "Mending Wall"
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Author Bio
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy
Edith Wharton: Author Bio
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever
PLUS:
Mark Twain The Story of the Bad Little Boy
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Assignment
Rubric
Lower Level
U/G
100-200
Courses
EXEMPLARY
LEVEL
A
18-20
ACCOMPLISHED
LEVEL
B
16-17
DEVELOPING
LEVEL
C
14-15
BEGINNING
LEVEL
D
11-13
Points
Earned
Purpose and
Audience
(20 Points)
The writing
engages the
reader with an
original approach
to the subject. It
may encompass
conflicting ideas
and inspires the
reader to
contemplate the
relationship of
complex ideas.
The writing
clearly goes
beyond the
minimum
requirements of
the assignment.
It attempts to
engage the
reader through
originality and
presentation of
complex ideas.
The writing
meets the
minimum
requirements of
the assignment.
It offers insight
into the subject
through basic
logic and the
presentation of
ideas based on
some evidence.
The writing fails
to meet the
minimum
requirements of
the assignment.
It offers little
insight into the
subject and has
serious flaws in
logic and
omissions in
evidence.
/20
Thesis and
Support
(20 Points)
The writing has a
clearly articulated
original thesis
and subordinate
ideas supported
by reliable and
relevant evidence
based on original
research. Main
ideas are not lost
in surrounding
supporting
evidence.
The writing has a
clearly articulated
thesis supported
by appropriate
evidence and
sound logic.
Minor gaps in
logic and
argument may
appear. Main
ideas can be
distinguished
from supporting
evidence with
some effort.
The writing has a
clear thesis and
related
subordinate ideas
supported by
clear thinking and
appropriate
evidence. Logical
arguments may
be one-sided or
incomplete.
The writing may
need a more
clearly articulated
thesis and/or
appropriate
related
subordinate
ideas. Fuzzy logic
may be evident
and adequate
supporting
evidence is
lacking.
/20
Organization
(20 Points)
The writing flows ...
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Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
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4. Narrative and Point of View
Night is a short piece of fiction born of the author's
eight hundred-page memoir of his time in the Nazi
death camps.
The story is told from the first person point of view.
Not only does the narration not enter other
characters’ minds, there is little effort to explain
what is going on in the narrator’s mind.
The reader's conclusions are meant to be
independent and based on events and behavior;
however, readers are clearly led toward a loathing
of the camps.
5. Allusion
Night is full of scriptural allusions, or
hints of reference to biblical
passages. One example of allusion is
the execution of the three prisoners,
one of whom is an innocent child, a
pipel. This scene recalls the moment
in the Christian Gospel when Christ is
crucified in the company of two
thieves.
6. Anti-bildungsroman
The traditional German bildungsroman is the story of
a young, naive man entering the world to seek
adventure. He finds his adventure that provides him
with an important lesson. The resolution finds him
mature and ready for a productive life.
Wiesel's novella turns this tradition upside down. He
presents an educated, young man forced into a man-
made hell. There he learns more than he asks for.
The result is not that he will think about being a
productive worker, but about healing humanity.
7. Thinking about Essay #3
Focus on a close reading of a passage (or
passages) that you could use to do a critical
reading through a particular theoretical lens.
Consider New Critical, Feminist, Psychoanalytic,
or Trauma Theories. You may use another
theory with which you are familiar.
8. Essay #3: Response to the
Novel/Novella
The Writing Assignment
In a thesis driven essay of 4-7 pages, analyze one or more
aspects of Stephen King’s Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank
Redemption, Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Elie Wiesel’s
Night, or Emma Donoghue’s Room. Consider using one extrinsic
theoretical lens (Feminist, Psychoanalytic, or Trauma theories),
that we have practiced this quarter to complicate your
argument. Aim to convince readers that your interpretation
adds to the conversation among those who read stories and
write about them. Back up your analysis with reasons and
support from the story. Use the critical strategies that we have
practiced this quarter.
See the complete assignment on our website
9. HOMEWORK
Finish Night
Post #22 QHQ Night: Focus on a
close reading of a passage (or
passages) that you could use to do
a critical reading through a
particular theoretical lens.
Consider New Critical, Feminist,
Psychoanalytic, or Trauma
Theories. You may use another
theory with which you are
familiar.
Think about themes and tensions
in Night.
