Homework
1. "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats SPOTTTS Analysis
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
the falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loos'd upon the world. [first stanza]
2. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe:
Read, annotate, and write at least 3 reader's responses in your Writer's Notebook
3. Argumentative analytic essay: 1st draft due Tuesday, 1/6 @ 8:00 a.m.
+ bring 3 hard copies with you to class for the peer review protocol
Now that we have entered the darkest time of the year, our continued analysis of Conrad's Heart of Darkness is quite apropos.
A text that is dense, complex, and confusing with its narrative layers and language and stream of consciousness style, Heart of Darkness "offers views that are multiple, ambiguous, ambivalent, conflicting, and perhaps even ultimately incoherent." (Hawkins 366)
We need to consider multiple interpretations and theories of the text. Chinua Achebe declared that Conrad is "a bloody racist." While he never retracted his statement and indictment of Conrad's text, he later concluded that "Conrad saw and condemned the evil of imperial exploitation." (Hawkins 368)
Paul B. Armstrong writes, "It is curious, to say the least, that the same text can be viewed as an exemplar both of epistemological evil and of virtue--as a model of the worst abuses and the most promising practices in representing other peoples and cultures." (Armstrong 430)
While Winter Break is a time to rest, relax, hibernate, and rejuvenate, it is also a time to read. Read closely, think deeply, reread, and write.
Happy Winter Solstice!
1. "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats SPOTTTS Analysis
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
the falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loos'd upon the world. [first stanza]
2. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe:
Read, annotate, and write at least 3 reader's responses in your Writer's Notebook
3. Argumentative analytic essay: 1st draft due Tuesday, 1/6 @ 8:00 a.m.
+ bring 3 hard copies with you to class for the peer review protocol
Now that we have entered the darkest time of the year, our continued analysis of Conrad's Heart of Darkness is quite apropos.
A text that is dense, complex, and confusing with its narrative layers and language and stream of consciousness style, Heart of Darkness "offers views that are multiple, ambiguous, ambivalent, conflicting, and perhaps even ultimately incoherent." (Hawkins 366)
We need to consider multiple interpretations and theories of the text. Chinua Achebe declared that Conrad is "a bloody racist." While he never retracted his statement and indictment of Conrad's text, he later concluded that "Conrad saw and condemned the evil of imperial exploitation." (Hawkins 368)
Paul B. Armstrong writes, "It is curious, to say the least, that the same text can be viewed as an exemplar both of epistemological evil and of virtue--as a model of the worst abuses and the most promising practices in representing other peoples and cultures." (Armstrong 430)
While Winter Break is a time to rest, relax, hibernate, and rejuvenate, it is also a time to read. Read closely, think deeply, reread, and write.
Happy Winter Solstice!