THURSDAY IN CLASS
Remaining personal essays collected. A few people still do not have turned-in papers on www.turnitin.com . Submit them ASAP.
New 2-page opening of a 12 page Munro story from the New Yorker, originally appearing in December of 1999 but re-published in the current issue. We looked at what appears to be a conventional exposition that turns out to be less connected than one might expect with the actual story that, with no transition whatsoever, picks up 50 years later in the very next paragraph. We also took note of the fact that sometimes allusions can involve random cultural or other references that students may or may not know. In this case, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" . . . .
I checked student responses to the first paragraph of "Araby" (starts on p. 434), and we talked a bit about them.
TODAY IN CLASS
Discussion of 2nd paragraph --> the narrator's naivte
Listing of dark/light elements in the 3rd paragraph
And in 1st only--we finished discussing that and went on to Paragraph Four!
FOR MONDAY
Read from Chapter Three, Characterization, pp. 161-165.
It would be useful if you have time to go on to the material in Chapter Five, Point of View, pp. 253-259. (I mentioned that to 5th but not to 1st--so not an absolute for Monday, but useful in a time management sense.)
We'll pick up Ch. 4 (Theme) soon.
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