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Welcome to... English 206 - Six American AuthorsI am your instructor Victoria Kingsley. I have spent the past year doing lots of things including working on my dissertation (don't ask), watching lots of baseball, photographing ballparks and other places connected to some of my interests, and being the mother of a freshman in college and a freshman in high school. Here I am photographing Walden Pond -- I am behind the camera ;) . This picture was taken on January 6th and there were people in swimming at the pond. We will be reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau and I spent the afternoon at the pond to get in the spirit of the book. . |
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Wednesday, May 2: As we discussed in class, I have posted the Peer Review sheet for the 2nd Long/ Formal Paper. You can find it by clicking on the link above and to the left for the Resources page.
Monday, April 2: We will do what I call a "Post Write" for our papers in class tonight. I will give you a sheet to write/complete in order to do this. As I say on the sheet, think of completing the Post Write as your way of telling me the story behind the paper or the story of you creating/writing the paper. I read the Post Write first and let it guide me in my response to or comments on your paper. We'll talk about this tonight. We will also discuss Invisible Man tonight -- you should have read through Chapter Six. There's a lot to talk about and I think you will agree that it is a powerful book... worth reading and discussing. See you tonight.
Monday, March 26: As we discussed last week in class, we will spend part of class time tonight doing Peer Review on our drafts of the long paper. FYI, I have posted a copy of the Peer Review form/sheet we will do in class tonight. Look for it by clicking on the icon for "Resources" above on the left hand side of your screen. Think of the Peer Review sheet as articulating the rubric for this paper. In addition, I will distribute copies in class tonight for our use. I would like us to work in groups of three as I described last week so that when you leave class, you will have looked at two other people's papers and two people will have read and commented on your draft. We will continue our discussion of Huck Finn as well tonight. See you tonight.
Sunday, March 18: We will meet, as we discussed in class last Monday night, in twos and threes to discuss your plans for your first long or formal paper. I have posted a list of the conference appointments below. We will meet in the classroom. I distributed the description of the paper in class as well as posted it in the Assignments section of the web site. Please bring the paper description with you for our meeting with your ideas and questions written down on the sheet for discussion. Bring any of your short response papers you might want to use in creating your long paper. We will also begin to discuss various literary analysis approaches in class tomorrow night. I have posted a description of a number of these analytical approaches to literature as well as lists of questions one can or could use in developing a paper using one of/ these analytical approaches to interpreting a piece of literature/ text. Please see this by clicking on the icon labeled Resources above. I will also distribute a sheet with this information in class. Finally, we will begin discussing Huckleberry Finn in class tomorrow night! Let's hope that the predicted snow for tomorrow does not interfere with all our plans!!!! See you al tomorrow night!!
Formal Paper Conference Appointments Monday, March 19 5:30 Wallace Morris 5:45 Jason Leslie, Sameer 6:00 Anna Welch, John Gorham, Jonathan Costine 6:15 Diana, Rayza Lacruz, Kisu 6:30 Maya, Jessica Lordan 6:45 Salvana, Luisa Fernandes, Jason Baumann
Monday, March 12 (Redux):
Just a quick re-cap of some of the things we talked about in class tonight. I thought our discussion of Walden was quite fruitful as we uncovered some of his metaphors, symbols, and allusions and got a better grasp of transcendentalism. As we discussed, we DO have class next Monday, March 19 (the UMB Harbor Campus is on Spring Break next week BUT the Copley Campus is NOT ON BREAK). We will begin meeting @ 5:30 for your Formal Paper Conferences as we discussed tonight and according to the time for which you signed. I will post the Conference Appointment times later this week (see the form below). The full class discussion will not begin until 7:00, as we discussed. The description of the first Formal/ Long Paper which I distributed in class tonight is also posted in the Assignment thread of this web site. Please bring this form with your ideas noted on it to your meeting with me next week along with your Short Response papers as we discussed in class. We will discuss different literary analysis interpretive strategies ( phew!) next week in class as I mentioned tonight. Later in the week, I will post information about this including a list of strategies and the questions one explores/ attempts to answer when applying a particular interpretive strategy to an analysis of a text. More later. Thanks for the interesting observations and discussion tonight!
ENG206/ 1st Formal/ Long Paper Conferences/ Kingsley/ Spring 2007
As we discussed in class we will meet in threes to discuss your plan(s) for the first long or formal paper. These will be held on Monday, March 19 and will take up the first hour of class. Thus, full class discussion will begin @ 7:00 p.m. on 3/19. Please sign up for a time below. Write down the time so that you will remember it. If you need to change your appointment, you may do so by e-mailing me. If you need to cancel your appointment, please let me know by e-mail so that I will know what happened to you and someone else can have the time slot.
You are required to conference with me as part of your class participation and attendance. Please bring your ideas and short response papers done so far. I will return your Thoreau short response paper via email before we meet. We will meet in threes. NO MORE THAN THREE PEOPLE TO A TIME SLOT. If no time available works, talk with me to arrange something. Do not “create” a new time slot without asking.
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Monday, March 12: We had a fruitful discussion about Civil Disobedience last week and began to talk about Walden. Of course, if we take Thoreau's observations in Civil Disobedience to heart, we know that simply thinking and talking are not enough to make us good or moral citizens. We need to act upon our beliefs in order to qualify as responsible and moral. So, what have you done this week that Thoreau would smile upon and what have you done or not done that Thoreau would question you about?! ;) We looked at pictures of Walden Pond and environs and began our discussion of Walden which we will continue tonight. We will also begin to talk about Huck Finn. Finally, we talked about some concerns I have about our papers -- going over my expectations for citing sources, methods for using quotations, etc. I see this as an on-going discussion as one of my/the objectives for the course is giving you practice on and developing your ability to write about and work analytically with texts.
Friday, March 2: I have posted some notes about the Thoreau reading we are doing. Check the Resources section of the class web site -- click on Resources icon above and to the left to get to this. It's icon that shoes a globe sitting on the pile of books. There are links and directions to other sources which provide additional information on Thoreau's background and thinking.
Wednesday, February 28: I am feeling much better and apologize for Monday night. When I set out for class, I didn't feel well but thought I could pull myself together and get through class. Wrong. :( Friday, February 23: It seems like such a long time since we last met (it's still cold out though!). In our last meeting, we discussed the genre of slave narratives as well as our response to what Harriet Jacobs, also known by her pen name of Linda Brent, describes about her experiences as a slave. As one member of the class expressed it, a lot of this reading was painful. I asked you to consider in your papers the narrative role Jacobs assumes or the voice she created to tell her story. She faced many barriers as a writer not the least of which was convincing her readers that she was a credible and trustworthy narrator. In addition, she had to convince her audiences that she was a "proper" lady in order to be taken seriously. This was not easy given the nature of the events she felt it necessary to alert her readers to in order to gain sympathy for the cause of abolishing slavery. Henry David Thoreau presents a very different narrative voice from Harriet Jacobs. He lived during the same time period as Jacobs, but in such a different environment from Jacobs that one could almost say it was as though they lived in different worlds. For our discussion Monday, I've asked you to read Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" and the first chapter of Walden titled "Economy" and to write a short response to this reading. See the Assignment thread for further description of this. To submit this paper, please see the instructions on the Assignment thread. Important FYI: If you did not submit a paper to me for the first short response paper which was due February 12, you have lost 10 points out of the 100 points you can earn for the semester. I do not accept papers once they are over one week late. This means that if a paper is due on Monday, February 12, I will accept the paper through Monday, February 19. After Monday, February 19, I will not accept the paper and you will earn 0 points for the assignment. Of course, I subtract points from papers that are turned in late in fairness to those who complete their work on time. Please see the course syllabus for a complete description of the grading policy, late paper policy, etc. Paper Extension: One of the things I plan to discuss in class this Monday (February 26)--let's hope the predicted snow doesn't interfere --is my response to the first set of papers -- things I want you to address in your next paper. Given this, I will accept papers turned in through Wednesday, February 28 up to midnight as on time so that you can incorporate ideas from our class discussion into your paper(s).
Sunday, February 11: We did not discuss the procedure for submitting your papers last Monday although I made reference to the fact that I want papers submitted to me via email. Bring a hard copy of your paper to class tomorrow night so that you can discuss what you wrote about. We will also discuss in class the procedure for the electronic submission of your papers which will be due to me by midnight (12:00 a.m. ) Monday, February 12. I have posted the directions for submitting your work -- see Assignment thread for "Email Procedures." We also need to create an email list for the class. In order to do this, please send me an email asking me to add you to the class email list and providing the email address I should use (preferably your UMass email address).
Wednesday, January 31: Ways to get in touch with me: You can reach me by email @ Victoria.Kingsley@umb.edu. My office is in Wheatley, 6th floor room 106. If I'm not there, leave me a note. My office phone is 617-287-6742. Email is almost always the best way to get in touch with me. To find the homework assignment(s) and questions for written homework assignments, click on red notebook icon labeled “Assignments” in left column above on class homepage
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