perpetually moving on

...and in the grand scheme of things, you might wonder, what are we going to be up to next?

well, i'll tell ya:

--if you're an e3h-er, the fantasia project will fill up our time for a bit, along with an exploration of what is art? that begins with your assignment from this morning; following that, we'll be reading a novel by Chaim Potok called My Name Is Asher Lev, which will be available in the book store probably next week.

--if you're in e2h, as we bring our discussion of Dickinson to a close, that doesn't mean we are through with poetry; however, since we still have at least two stops on the Transcendentalist journey remaining, we'll come back to the land of verse. After this week, we'll be traveling to Thornton Wilder's Our Town. See if you can procure a copy.

--if you're in cw, we're working on several pieces already and starting this collage-based project; we will also be looking at how point of view affects narrative and how form affects poetry in the coming few weeks.

the immediate future:

thursday:

cw: working on collage project in class
e3h: what is art? discussion begins
e2h: final dickinson discussion

friday:

cw: collage project again/confs
e3h: in-class essay: poetry
e2h: in-class essay: dickinson

Now, if you are in E3H, you might notice that there is an in-class essay on Friday that I had not mentioned. That is due to the fact that several of you asked me not to have a weekend essay. So in lieu of doing so, I am going to have you write a holistically-graded in-class essay instead. The advantage of course is that it will be done immediately. The disadvantage is that you cannot take your time in composing it. However, you do need practice in this type of writing. (What did you get on last year's semester one final?) For a reminder of the English Dept. grading rubric, check the link to the right.

Fantasias will be due on 11/3.



j: perpetual motion
music: number six driver--eddie from ohio

--kt