Today’s Agenda
- 1)Poetry and Short Story Examination: Tuesday, October 28
- A. Covers any and all concepts in any of the readings we have done so far (and will cover before then)
- c. Would be wise to review readings, videos, and other materials (like what is on the blog) beforehand.
For the next ten minutes:
In your journal, I want you to address the following issue:
- 1) How are dreams different than your everyday life? How do you know when you are dreaming? How do you know when you are not dreaming? How are stories like dreams?
Group Work:
In your groups, I want you to identify aspects of your own life that other people may find strange or dreamlike. Think about particular aspects of your culture, things that define who you are and where you come from, and then think about how those thing may make you UNIQUE.
Let’s talk about Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.”
What is your GUT reaction to this story?
1) What are some important specific details?
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3….
2) What is the plot?
What is the Exposition?
What is the Rising Action?
What is the Climax?
What is the Falling Action?
3) Who are some of the important characters?
Pelayo
Elisenda
Child
“Angel”
Father Gonzaga
Villagers
The Spider Woman
Setting
4) What is the setting?
What are we dealing with here?
If it is an allegory, what is it an allegory for?
Here are a few optional lecture videos. Again, they are taken from the summer 08 class. You are not required to watch these, but if you want to watch them to review some of the key points and concepts we covered in class, you are welcome to.
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Read This For Next Class:
Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”
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Pingback by Welcome to Eh 112: Approaches to Literature « Approaches to Literature, Fall 2008 — October 16, 2008 @ 4:15 pm |
My dreams are usually taken to the extreme or something that might seem ridiculous in reality. If I dream about snow it’s not a couple of inches it’s foot upon foot of snow. If I dream about talking to someone, it’s usually about someone that I haven’t seen or talked to in years. I tend to not remember my dreams in the first place. Some say that’s because I don’t get enough sleep in order to get into the REM cycle. But since I can remember, I don’t really remember my dreams, on rare occasions I can and when I do it’s usually because I awake from a dead sleep startled by my dream. Stories are like dreams in the sense that they don’t really happen. Some say that dreams are based on events that have happened recently which I suppose could also be said about storied. Both might be based on actual events but also have a twist of imagination in them as well.
Comment by Gabe Cheney — October 16, 2008 @ 4:39 pm |
Dreams are different than everyday life becuase they are things we want to happen or we invision happen. Thos dreams do not always come true, or happen. For me I sometimes do not know when I am dreaming. A lot fo times i have to wake up and think what the heck, for example I have dreams that an alarm or soemthing like an alarm is goign off and I have stopped it, when in reality, my cell phone is ringing and it still is. Nobody is in my head watching my dreams, so therefore I can make anything up I want. When I was a young child I used to wake up after a dream and I would want to go back to sleep so bad that I would try and dream again about the topic I did through the night to make myself go back to sleep, and it didnt always work. I think stories are like dreams because you can add so much to a story to make is sound so wonderful when you are telling it to someone else. I have heard dreams that my friends have had and they are about things that actually happen to them. For example, this past Christmas eve my best friends brother was hit by a car on the interstate and was killed. She often has dreams that he did not die and he is still alive, or she will have dreams reliving the night he was killed. So I think that dreams could range from things that happen to things that are not goign to happen, just like stories, becasue some stories are fiction, and some nonfiction.
Comment by Jen Campbell — October 16, 2008 @ 4:42 pm |