Class #23A NOTE: Monday, November 30: Class held in D27

I'd like to have the literary analysis papers emailed to me at jcostal@gehrhsd.net by 11:59pm, Monday, November 30th.

It's IDEA time, I will providing the first  ten or so minutes of class to allow you time to fill out the IDEA for the course.

6pm students link here. 

8pm students link here. 

Goals for tonight's class: 

1. Answer questions about Skube paper from those of you who already received my feedback.

2. Discuss questions/issues with literary analysis paper, now that you have had some extra time to submit.

Class #22: Monday, November 23, 2016: Lit Analysis Paper & Plagarism activity

*If possible, bring a copy of A Good Man... to class. 

You will be given a 5 minute story review and prep prior to today's lecture. The idea is to maximize the effectiveness of my lecture in preparing you to write your paper over this week/weekend.

1. What might become the thesis of your LA paper? 
2. What basic components of the story or key concepts does your paper plan to explore? 
3. Write down two or three quotations from the story that your family has annotated. Why? Could you use this for your paper? Why or why not? 
4. Do a quick resource review. In other words, what 3rd party sources or research do you plan (or have you) used to write this paper? 

Formal Writing #7: Lit Analysis on "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Three to five pages. APA formatted sources. ALL CREDIBLE SOURCES/TRY to have ALL academic sources. Put writing number in the header. Due next Monday.

LECTURE NOTES: 

The overall goals of O'Connor's work:

1. To define the grotesque both as a literary device and a way to emphasize a spirituality vision; to recognize how the grotesque relates to realism, even humor. 

2. To develop genre known as "Southern Gothic,"  in order to explore its dark history and "grotesqueness" of old customs.


3. To juxtapose and parallel her characters and situations until a thematic importance surfaces.  

4. To challenge, even interrogate, Christianity in search of the idea of grace. "In my stories I have found that violence is strangely capable of turning 

Notes from class can be found here. 

And don't forget about that literary thesis writing handout from a while back. 

Class #21: CLASS CANCELED TODAY: NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That hearty cough I had Monday night has turned into full-on illin' for me.

No class tonight....BUT...please email me your final Skube papers to jcostal@gehrhsd.net by 11:59pm this evening.

Why not take your new-found "time" to edit that bad boy one more time?

Also, I have mapped out the remainder of class, and will be adding it as a sidebar on the blog shortly. Thanks for your attention. See you Monday.

Class #20: Monday, November 16, 2015

CLASS WILL MEET IN D18! YOU NEED ONLY HAVE A DIGITAL COPY OF SKUBE LETTER PAPER.

Class #17: NOTE: WEDNESDAY CLASS MOVED TO F222

Mini-Lesson: Thesis Work: 

The Beatles are the best rock and roll band of all time.

The Beatles are the greatest rock and roll band of all time because they wrote great songs, produced great albums and defined 60s culture.

Despite the cultural relevance of "Beatlemania," the band's importance in the canon of rock and roll grows as a result of their classic song-writing and transcendent album production.

IN-CLASS FAMILY ASSIGNMENT: 

1. Gather up ye' olde families.

2. Trade papers and do a contextual read.

3. One family member should open a Google Doc and share it with my email (jcostal@gehrhsd.net) and the email of their counterpart family. Be sure to also put the names of each family member present in class on the doc.

4. Under each thesis, add a credible piece of evidence (from a 3rd party source) that supports the thesis. Be sure to attribute the evidence (one to three sentences).

5. Feel free to edit one another's submissions.

6. After you have shared your sheet, open the sheet of your counterparts. If it's done, take out the thesis rubric I gave you. Apply each of your partner family's theses to the rubrics. Give each thesis a score based on the number of "Y"s it receives from the rubric.

7. We will come together as a class to discuss these, and I do not plan on doing the talking. The family is responsible for assessing one another's these.

8. You will receive a grade for the your family's theses quality. You will receive a grade for your analysis and presentation as well.

ASSIGNMENTS

RESOURCE: The most comprehensive website for everything about formatting anything in APA style can be found here. 

READ: Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. Annotate the story. Do a solid read focusing on level two and three. You will be writing your literary analysis paper on this piece, so the more thoroughly you work now, the better off you will be later. I am interested in your analysis of how O'Connor uses specific devices and concepts. If you're stuck, specifically consider terms of character development.

REMEMBER the annotation should show how the article effectively (or ineffectively) ties EVIDENCE to the CLAIM. 

Use the same claim, reason and questions posed above for this assignment.

Class #16: NOTE: Class in Monday in D18

Be sure to have with you...digital copy of essay due today. 

We will do some peer editing. The link to the presentation is on Twitter.

We are struggling with abstraction. Let's start here. 

Attribution vs. Citation discussion continues here.