For Discussions of Events in English 112
“In the revolutionary process, the leaders cannot utilize the banking method as an interim measure, justified on grounds of expediency, with the intention of later behaving in a genuinely revolutionary fashion. They must be revolutionary–that is to say, dialogical– from the outset.” (270)
In Class:
Review Error 16 (pronoun antecedent agreement)
Review chapters in workshop
Workshop Guidelines
For Monday:
Hand in Chapter I (Revised)
Read Paulo Freire’s “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” available through electronic reserve
In Class:
Discuss Hornby (especially in light of Lessig & McCormick & Waller)
Workshop Chapter I
Proposal Responses:
Check formatting. DOUBLE SPACE! Font should conform to styles (no bold/etc.).
TITLES
Empty words: facet, basically, “an issue since the beginning of time”
For Wednesday:
Chapter I is due. Typed, double spaced, check format guidelines. Must include works cited.
Ok. My laptop is on the critical list, so I am currently working on document recovery. That being said…
Today’s mission:
Discuss Lessig
Review Citation & Research
Outline Chapter I
Consider purpose of chapter
parts of writing: Intro., Thesis, Body, Conclusion
For Monday:
Draft of Chapter I (One printout, one on disk or emailed to self as attachment).
English 112, sections 11 & 12, will not be held on Monday, September 19.
In lieu of class tonight, please do the following:
If you have not as yet, please register on the course bulletin board .
Please read Nick Hornby’s “Thunder Road,” which is available through electronic reserve.
Electronic reserve is accessible via consuls.org; a search by my last name will bring you to the listings, and electronic reserve is indicated by “ele” following my name and the university’s.
To speed things along, the link is http://tinyurl.com/dlr9g
You will need to have a PIN for your Library info. If you haven’t set one up yet, go to http://www.consuls.org/patroninfo and follow the instructions.
Please blog a response to Hornby, considering the following prompts. Remember, each prompt is a suggestion or starting point for writing. You are not required to respond to all (or any) of these thinking points:
Finally, for Wednesday, check out Buley’s online databases. Find the appropriate type of database for your topic and research your topic. Please blog two sources from the databases as AB entries for Wednesday. You don’t have to bring in a printout of the actual text, but you should note:
Until Wednesday–
Andrea
Ok. Time did not swallow a day whole. The site was down Monday, so 9/12 lesson plans are not posted.
In Class:
Pass in Proposals
6:15/7:35
Short Presentations
During presentations, take notes. Blog a brief response for Monday in which you explain
Watch & Respond to Lessig’s Presentation, “Free Culture”.
Blog an AB response to Lessig for Monday. Check SMH for the way to cite a web source.
Writing Prompts for Lessig
For Monday, 9/19:
Blog a brief response for Monday in which you explain
Blog an AB response to Lessig for Monday. Check SMH for the way to cite a web source.
SMH Tutorial on Avoiding Plagiarism . Read “Taking Notes.” Complete the following exercises: “Recognizing Summaries,” “Recognizing Paraphrases,” and “Recognizing Integrated Quotations.”
In Class: Discussion of proposals. Drafting Chapter I.
Discuss: Introduction to Reading Texts
Key points:
Topic:
Sample Topics:
Proposal:
For Monday: Plot out branches/chapters. Be prepared to discuss in class. Draft proposal (500 words)
Beaudin, Andrea L. “What’s A Cundrie?” MA Thesis. Cundrie.com. 6 Sept. 2005 http ://www.cundrie.com/cundrie.htm.
According this page’s introductory information, “What’s A Cundrie?” was published online in order to answer questions concerning, one supposes, the naming of the author’s website. The page is actually an excerpt from the author’s master’s thesis. A Cundrie, it seems, is not simply a “what” but a “who.” Cundrie is a character in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, a “loathly damsel” from India who can speak many languages (so she can communicate with a lot of different types of people in the text) and appears to offer intelligent guidance to Parzival.
While most of this work is a summary of events in Parzival that relate to Cundrie’s character, this excerpt offers some insight into the theoretic approach Beaudin may have used for her thesis. Her reference to the Cundrie’s “literary repertoires” and depiction of the author Wolfram as both a creator and character mirrors the language used by McCormick, Waller, and Flower in the Introduction to Reading Texts. As this is an excerpt, it is difficult to determine whether Beaudin’s text is geared towards readers of all levels; are terms such as “loathly damsel” explained? Also, the page is footnoted, but no Works Cited page is available, so the reader for this online text cannot locate sources for herself. However, this is one of the few scholarly pages available online concerning this character (Google lists approximately 650 results, many of which are ‘baby names’ sites or fantasy fiction).
On a personal note, I found the notion of this character quite interesting. When I think of characters in medieval lit. (King Arthur and Guenevere, for example), I think of white, powerful men and passive white women. The only times I read about non-whites during that time were the supposedly “bad guys” in the Crusades. I didn’t expect someone writing at that time to createt a “good” character as a non-Western woman… and Cundrie’s SMART, too! I wonder, though, why she is ugly. Did Wolfram ever meet people from other lands? Did he find real-life Cundries ugly because they were not blonde and fair? Our modern culture still has issues with brains vs. beauty. It still seems that a woman that our culture deems beautiful will have a hard time earning respect. How many people know that Cindy Crawford was a chemical engineering major at Northwestern (so much for the dumb model theory)?