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UPDATE: 9 August 2001
Final Notes have been posted.
UPDATE: 1 August 2001
The TITLES page has been updated
(at the entry
for One Hundred Years of Solitude, 30 July) with
links to Notes on One Hundred Years of Solitude.
FINAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
By next Tuesday evening (Aug. 7), please e-mail
me a few pages of informal (yet
thoughtful)
reflections on the works read this term and on
yourself as a prospective teacher of these
works. Here are a few topics to consider--but don't
restrict yourself to these topics:
(1) Looking back on the novels and short stories
read this term, comment on any particular reading
pleasures and reading disappointments you
experienced. Comment as a reader (not as a student
or as a prospective teacher) for this one.
(2) Imagine that you are teaching a senior class
of high school English students--let's say it's
an Advanced Placement class with some sharp,
motivated students. Which of the works studied
this term might you include on your syllabus
--and why? Which works might you almost
certainly not include--and why?
(3) Debates continue to rage between those
educators who insist on the value of teaching
contemporary works of literature representative
of diverse cultures and those who dismiss such
attitudes as excessive "political correctness,"
arguing instead that students should
be reading the "classics." In light of your own
educational experiences as well as your particular
readings this summer, offer your own perspectives
on this debate.
UPDATE: 23 July 2001
The TITLES page has been updated
(at the entry
for The Art of the Story, 23 July) with links
to Notes on Additional Stories
from The Art
of the Story. Additional
commentaries on One Hundred
Years of Solitude
have also been posted (and linked on the
TITLES page).
UPDATE: 11 July 2001
The TITLES page has been updated
(at the entry
for A Lesson before Dying, 9 July) with links to
Notes on A Lesson and Additional Commentaries
on A Lesson.
The assignment for July 16 (Love Medicine) has
been postponed; our next readings (due July 23)
will be the short stories in the second half of the
Art of the Story collection. Over the next ten days,
additional Notes on Selected Authors will be added to the
AUTHORS page.
UPDATE: 3 July 2001
The TITLES page has been updated
(at the entry
for Libra, 2 July) with a link to Notes on Libra (as
well as links to Additional commentaries).
Additional
commentaries on Ernest Gaines and A Lesson
Before Dying have also been posted (TITLES, 9 July).
The RESOURCES page is at last being
developed.
UPDATE: 27 June 2001
The TITLES page has been updated
(at the entry
for The Art of the Story, 25 June) with a link to
Notes on Selected Authors (including
recommended
readings and brief quotations on writing from
selected authors).
Additional commentaries on Libra
have also been
posted (and linked on the TITLES
page).
UPDATE: 19 June 2001
The TITLES page has been updated
(at the entry
for Things Fall Apart) with a link to Notes on
Things Fall Apart (as well as links to additional
commentaries; links in bold were added on June 19).
The AUTHORS page has been expanded
to include
links to sites of several of the authors whose short
stories we're reading for next week.
UPDATE: 14 June 2001
The TITLES page has been updated
(at the entry
for Midnight's Children) with a link to Notes on
Midnight's Children (as well as links to additional
commentaries; links in bold were added on June 14).
Additional commentaries on Things
Fall Apart
have also been posted (and linked on the
TITLES page).
UPDATE: 5 June 2001
The TITLES page has been updated
(at the entry
for Sula) with a link to Notes
on Sula (as well
as links to additional
commentaries on Sula).
Additional commentaries on Midnight's
Children
have also been posted (and linked on the
TITLES page).
UPDATE: 22 May 2001
The TITLES page has been updated to
include all readings
(with due dates for assignments) for the summer 2001 term.
UPDATE: 20 May 2001
Throughout the summer of 2001, this site will be developed
by the students and instructor participating in an independent
study version of English 7757 (Contemporary World
Literature). Please note that English 7757 is not an
online course.
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