Author: Professor Sean Scanlan (Page 1 of 4)

Hello Students!

Today is the last day of class. I hope that you can make it today for a little extra credit, and to wrap up the semester with a brief discussion of vacation plans and life goals.

Here are two of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite authors, Toni Morrison:

1. On writing: “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”

2. On reading: “Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.”

Have a great vacation; I hope to see you around City Tech in the future.

Best wishes,

Prof. Scanlan

NOTE:

• Students can email me Essay 3. Make sure to use my correct email: sscanlan@citytech.cuny.edu

• Our last class is Wednesday, Dec 18. Please show up on time for these presentations. There will be an extra credit opportunity during this class.

• Essay 3 is due in class on Wednesday, printed, stapled (and proofread).

• I will not accept any work emailed to me after 5pm on Wednesday, Dec 18.

Hello Class,

Today is the next to last class of the semester!

Please arrive on time and be ready to get started with presentations.

Respect is awesome! So, put away your phones and listen to your classmates.

See you at 10am.

Prof. Scanlan

Note: Here is the second peer review that we did not get to today. You might find it useful. Feel free to ask a friend, relative, or classmate to review your essay. No need to turn this in next week.

Second-EthicSS-Peer Review-Comp2-f2024

Agenda:

–Sign up sheet for Essay 3 presentation

–Return Quiz 4

–Thesis and method discussion

–Second peer review for Essay 3

–Questions and answers about

• Essay 3
• presentations
• author interview/essay quotation

Homework due Monday, Dec 16: Second to last class!

**Complete Student Evaluation of Teaching by today, please!

1–Presentation Day 

2–Early submission of Essay 3

*******The deadline to submit any work for this class is Dec 18 at 5:00 pm. 

Agenda:

—Discuss how to find an author essay/speech/interview

*You pay for using the City Tech Library, so I recommend this source.  Make sure that you are logged into your library account so that you can save the search and export the citation. That said, it might streamline your search to get specific titles from Google, then go into the journal via the CT database and search for the exact title of the interview.

Search tips:

–Type in the name of the journal such as The New Yorker or Paris Review

–Type in the name of the author

–You can also do a general search via the story’s title using One Search

–be prepared to do a few searches. Try out terms such as ethics and/or empathy.

—Quiz 4

—Interview style peer review and in-class work on Essay 3

–Return extra credit quiz

Homework For Wednesday, Dec 11: Bring in at least one full page of Essay 3 for our second peer review. 

Agenda:

—Discuss AVOMWEW

—Review student example (first page)

—Review weaving example

—Discuss how to find an author essay/speech/interview

—In-class writing–Thesis

–Return Quiz 3

Homework For Monday Dec 9: study for Quiz 4: the quiz will cover TER, AAM, AVOMWEW, short story vocabulary, and two types of empathy.

Agenda:

–Review Assignment instructions for Essay 3

–Extra Credit Quiz

–Favorite short story

–List main characters

–List main events

–List main decisions

–List main ethics involved

–Blueprint

Homework for Wednesday: Read “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”

NOTE: WE DO NOT HAVE CLASS THIS WEDNESDAY (11/27)

End of semester schedule:

12/2: Extra Credit Quiz; discuss TER and AAM; discuss Essay 3

12/4: discuss AVOMWEW; discuss interview research

12/9: Quiz 4; work on Essay 3 and interview research

12/11: Interview Research and Peer Review

12/16: Mini presentations and early turn-in for Essay 3

12/18: Finish mini presentations and last day to turn in Essay 3 (extra credit to attending last class).

1. Vocabulary from last week
2. Groupwork story discussion

Homework for Monday, Dec 2:

–Read the instructions for Essay 3 (see Major Assignments menu tab).

–Read “The Enormous Radio” and “An Arranged Marriage” and study for an optional, extra credit quiz to be give on Monday. This quiz will also include new vocabulary.

Agenda:

–“The Captive”

–Empathy handout

–Discuss “Assimilation”

–New vocabulary (if time)

—discuss vocabulary:

Five-part reading tool (1-5)

6-symbol

7-metaphor

8-style

9-structure

10-focalizer: the person or entity who is seeing or visualizing the scene; this person or entity is not always the narrator–it is often a character.

11-focal distance (1. distance between focalizer and action, or 2. distance between the narrator and the focalizer)

12-horizon of expectations

                     The “continuous establishing and altering of horizons,” urges the literary critic Jans Robert Jauss in Theory of Aesthetic Reception (1982):

determines the relationship of the individual text to the succession of texts that forms the genre. The new text evokes for the reader (listener) the horizon of expectations and rules familiar from earlier texts, which are then varied, corrected, altered, or even just reproduced . . . the question of the subjectivity of the interpretation and of the taste of different readers or levels of readers can be asked meaningfully only when one has first clarified which trans-subjective horizon of understanding conditions the influence of the text. (23)

Homework for Monday, Nov 25: Read “The Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri, and in your notes, write down how ethics and empathy work.

Agenda

1. 5 types of Ethics
2. Quiz 3
3. Discussion

Homework Due Wednesday:

Read and take notes on “Assimilation” by E.L. Doctorow.

My handout on conditional sentences:

The Conditional Sentence

Agenda:

–Freewrite

–Story/Narrative vocabulary

–Read and discuss “The Captive” and “The Lottery” in terms of the Five-Part Reading Tool

Homework due Monday, Nov 18: Read “Thank you, Ma’am” and “The Veldt.” Prepare for Quiz 3 which will cover conditional sentences and three short stories: “The Lottery,” “Thank you Ma’am,” and “The Veldt.”