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English 1080: Week 2
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, September 8, 2014. 2 Write a paragraph in which you discuss the form of the lyrics, just as you would analyze the form of a poem. You may want to mention the stanza organization, refrains, rhyme scheme, meter (syllable count), and poetic syntax. For definitions of these and other terms that may be of use in your analysis, check pages 388-395 of Literature and the Writing Process. What is the tone of the lyrics? On Frid...
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English 1080: Week 3
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, September 15, 2014. Learning Journal Activity - Image Expressive. Photo 1: Be Young B. The piece of brick you see in the photo above seemed to have been quite purposely planted in the trail by someone, and seemed to have been quite purposely engraved by someone too. I kept my eyes open for others like it, but found only this one. Go figure. Assigned readings and overview for week 3. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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English 1080: Week 1
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, September 1, 2014. Welcome to English 1080. This blog is an online teaching and learning resource for our course. A new post will appear every Monday with a brief overview of the material we will cover that week, important concepts and literary terms, as well as the writing activity or prompt for your learning journal entries (you can find the first blog activity below in this post). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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English 1080: Spoken Word Poetry
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). For an online copy of the course outline. Literature and the Writing Process. Welcome to English 1080. Chopin, "Story of an Hour". Munro, "Boys and Girls". Achebe, "Dead Men's Path". Oates, "Where are you Going.". Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants". OWL @ Purdue University. MLA @ MUN Library. Index of Literary Terms. Prose and Poetry Links. Online Writing Tools and Other Links.
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English 1080: Week 13
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, November 24, 2014. Learning Journal Activity - End of Semester Reflections. What insights have you gained about poetry and short fiction through your studies? Which readings or course material did you find most interesting? Which did you find least interesting? What are some prevalent themes that have come up in course readings? What are some contentious issues raised through literature and other forms of art? Hemingwa...
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English 1080: Week 10
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, November 3, 2014. Learning Journal Activity - Quotable. Below is a sample I have put together using quotes from famous authors, but don't feel like you have to follow along similar lines - the sky is the limit, but do try to keep it PG 13. If you have any questions about this activity, send me an email at my mun dot ca address or leave a comment below. Wilde, the author of the famous book The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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English 1080: Week 8
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, October 20, 2014. Learning Journal Activity - Open Letter. This week's writing prompt asks you to compose a letter to someone or something. You don't necessarily have to send the letter, and it doesn't have to be written to anyone you know. In fact, you might have some fun writing a letter to an inanimate object, or to your favorite artist, or your least favorite politician. Assigned Readings and Overview for Week 8.
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English 1080: Week 7
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, October 13, 2014. This Friday we will also be introducing some of the concepts and terminology that will be important for the section of the course on short fiction. If you check the course schedule for the next two weeks you will notice a number of small sections of the text are assigned that will provide a good refresher on fiction. I hope everyone is having a nice break and a happy Thanksgiving! MLA @ MUN Library.
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English 1080: Week 5
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, September 29, 2014. Learning Journal Activity - Critical or Creative. You have a choice of two different activities for this week's journal entry, one of which is more critically oriented, the other more creatively oriented. Critical - Everyday Poetry. Creative - Spatial Poetry. Below are a few samples of spatial poems I've made, which will hopefully help get the creative energies flowing:. As always, if you have quest...
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English 1080: Week 14
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A teaching and learning blog for English 1080: Critical Reading and Writing I. Monday, December 1, 2014. This week, the final week of classes for the semester, we will be having a class celebration on Monday (I'll be bringing a cake! And a drop-in class on Wednesday for anyone with questions about the final exam. There is no class this Friday. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). For an online copy of the course outline. Literature and the Writing Process. Welcome to English 1080. Munro, "Boys and Girls".
