Due Monday: Read the first page of "Cultivating Wonder" by David Coleman. Skim the pages that follow, and choose 2 questions that precede excerpts of major works. Read, annotate, and respond: How does the question shape the reader's lens and understanding of the text and "meaning of the work as a whole"?
Due Friday 9/26: Final draft of literary analysis process essay (Gatsby or Catcher)
In today's class, we read "How Reading Makes Us Human" and compared the author's argument with Curie's argument in "Does Reading Great Literature Make Us Better?"
Objectives:
Due Friday 9/26: Final draft of literary analysis process essay (Gatsby or Catcher)
In today's class, we read "How Reading Makes Us Human" and compared the author's argument with Curie's argument in "Does Reading Great Literature Make Us Better?"
Objectives:
- critique two arguments (re: why do we read)
- discuss the reasoning in both arguments
- examine, deconstruct, and discuss "meaning of the work as a whole" as it applies to both Gatsby & Catcher (see Hsu's article)
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