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Weekly Update
This page describes what's due today (Monday) and also Wednesday.
Every item mentioned has a separate page on the course website. Check those individual pages for full details.
Every item mentioned has a separate page on the course website. Check those individual pages for full details.
Weekly Update Sep 27.mp3Below is a written outline of what's in the podcast.
Starting with the page for Sep 27
- Due: Ex 2 Revision
- Revise just one of the paragraphs from Ex 2.
- Upload to Turnitin.com.
- Text: Emerson, Nature (selections)
- Post a quotation and your reaction.
- Submit
your blog entry by posting the URL on the course website (either in the
"URL" box, or by just pasting the URL after the end of your comment...
either way is acceptable)
- So that visitors to your blog
will know your comment is part of a larger conversation, please post a
link from your blog entry to the course website.
- As with all assigned readings, post 2-4 comments on peer blogs to get a conversation started.
- Text: Pre-discussion Podcast 8
- Listen to this podcast (which offers background on Emerson and Transcendentalism)
- Post your reaction, and 2-4 comments
- Thesis Workshop (this is an in-class activity -- you don't need to prepare anything special)
- Transcendentalism (a slot for our general discussion of the topic)
- Due: Ex 3 Analytical Essay
(The same idea as the 200-word close reading paragraphs, and using the same rubric, but taking the form of a short essay.) - Analysis Exercise (something we will do in class)
- Text: Emerson (one additional chapter)
- Text: John Henry Ballad
- The
assignment is not just to read and listen to the ballads, but also to
read and listen to some material explaining this song tradition
- This page has a few prompts to guide your response. As usual, post your response and 2-4 comments.
