Blog Post 13: Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri

Last one. Go crazy -be the smartest you’ve been. Respond in any way you please!

Assignment in place of cancelled class —

Please post your thesis and  a solid body paragraph from your paper — with a topic sentence, evidence and reasoning  – then post the topic sentences of your other paragraph—remember there is only one point per paragraph so all topic sentences should relate to your thesis —

It should look like this :

Thesis: Write thesis here.

Paragraph: Write paragraph here .

Topic Sentence 1 : Write 1st topic sentence here.

Topic sentence 2: Write second topic sentence here –

And so on ….

 

Class Cancelled.

For personal reasons, I have to cancel class tonight – we will go over this information next week. Please continue to comment on the blog.

 

Lindsey

Blog Post 12: Gloria Anzuldua, Alice Walker Leslie Marmon Silko, Joy Harjo

Think philosophical stance this week – What are these women saying about whats important in life? – What were their lives like (google them!)? And What is important to them?  Like last week — write about two and ask questions about the others!

 

 

Blog Post 11: John Updike, Thomas Pynchon, Raymond Carver, Maxine Hong Kingston

So – what do you make of the contemporary short story? What interests you? What do you see thematically – just write what you want about at least two of these stories and pose thematic questions about the other two. I will look at people’s questions in class.

Papers – Still Grading…

While quite a few of you will have your papers back by class time, I am fairly certain that they will not all be done by then. I want to be diligent and give each of these the reading they deserve so please be patient.

 

L

Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde

What do you see thematically in these poems?  How is poetry different after 1945?  What is the same?

Be sure to prove that your reading all the reading….

 

Blog Post 9: Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Flannery O’Conner

Please post about the thematic ideas that you see in these stories — do they have things in common? What do they say about the modern American identity?  You can write about anything in any  of the stories but you must comment about each text in detail and using quotes.

 

SHOW OFF! BE SMARTIES – LITERARY FOLK.

Blog Post 8: What is the Topic of Your Paper?

Please tell the class what the thesis of your paper (1 Sentence).  Tell us what sources you used and what is best point you make?

Finally – please comment on the other people ideas for their papers….constructively. Make notes about what interests you…

This is not due until next Friday – march 9 – so you can keep posting and refining all week.

Blog7: Sick professor!

Been sick all week – show off – write about the readings in any way you want.