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WEEK EIGHT
Mon—Tues—Wed: Program Retreat
Creative Writing Workshop Menu of Tasks—you'll need these in your portfolio!
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Millersylvania Environmental Learning Center (includes directions)
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THURSDAY
Late Start: 10:30
Guest: Natalie Knight, Workshop
Seminar: Cloud Atlas
Due—
Seminar Task: bring in outside readings, resources, materials that can add to our discussion of Cloud Atlas
WEEK SEVEN
MONDAY—No Class
TUESDAY
Guests: Meghan and Nicholas Smith on Pataphysics + Tyler's Workshop for House of Leaves, review, etc
WEDNESDAY
Python Reading: Chapter 7
Programming Lab
Seminar Facilitators meet
THURSDAY
Writing Workshop: Critique revisited.
Seminar: House of Leaves: Create your own "inclusion" for House of Leaves.
FRIDAY
Revision of Thesis Due to Brian or Steven (4:45 in mailboxes).
Include first draft with any marks, tutor comments, and an Author's Note.
WEEK SIX
MONDAY
DNA video; brief lecture on visual-text. + Python: functions.
TUESDAY
Cont'd. chatter about visual text + VAS. Writing workshop (in class exercise w/ invisible cities + small "Humument" experiment).
Link to pages about Tom Philips' Humument.
+ Gallery of Pages.
WEDNESDAY
Programming Lab
Seminar Facilitators meet
THURSDAY
Writing Workshop: PROJECT DRAFTS + Worksheet
Seminar: VAS, a short paper that analyses 3 different pages from the text.
FRIDAY
Draft of PROJECT due by 4:45 in our mailboxes.
Writing Workshop materials from Thursday Due.
WEEK FIVE
MONDAY
Lecture on Beckett; Lecture on Compooters
TUESDAY
Thesis Concept Review & Note Cards—come prepared to talk about your thesis.
Writing Workshop Exercise —NO EXPERIMENT this WEEK
WEDNESDAY
Programming Lab
Seminar Facilitators meet
THURSDAY
Writing Workshop: Thesis Drafts—bring what you've got: printed out for each of your group members.
Seminar: Watt ; no seminar "paper" due
FRIDAY
Draft of Thesis due by 4:45 in our mailboxes.
WEEK FOUR
This week:
Monday: Lecture + Programming Lecture
Tuesday: A bit of film, Bring excerpt from your projects for critique + guest writer: Meghan
Wednesday: Lab
Thurdsay: Writing Workshop + Seminar
Geometric Regional Novel Assignment
Answer the following question and choose, as part of your support for your answer,
2-3 key images that function throughout the book,
and give a close reading of at least 2 sections of the text to support your answer.
QUESTION: what does it mean to create a “geometric” text?
PORTFOLIO check (see link on left)
Week Three
Remember, we have no class on MLK day. We'll have some adjustments in how we spend class time as a result.
Refer to the chart (linked on the left) Project & Thesis information.
READING for week three: A Void, by Perec.
See Programming Page for Python information and assignments.( Read: Ch 3)
Tuesday: Programming Lecture; Lecture + Writing Workshop
Wednesday: Programming Lab + Film
Thursday: Cont. Film (?) + Writing Workshop + Seminar
Things Due this Week:
Programming Homework (Tues 10 a.m.) & Reading
Programming Lab (Wednesday around noon)
Seminar: Notes on your four chapters of A Void
Writing Workshop: Revision Strategy + Worksheet + Experiment (Friday by 4:45)
Thesis: 2-page Memo: "Thesis Speculations"—This is a letter to your seminar faculty that describes your approach to responding to the thesis prompt, how you might construct a few different claims, and how you intend to deal with some of the texts.
Creative Project: Nothing Due this week.
Week Two
This week, you'll have the assignments below in addition to the new load of programming lab and writing workshop tasks.
+ Seminar Preparation task related to Flatland / Sphereland (due Thursday, week 2)
Write a short paper (2-3 pages) that compares and contrasts the roles that mathematics plays in Flatland & Sphereland.
+ Thesis Task: find and digest JSTOR articles (bring to class Thursday, final submission Friday)
Find 3 good, interesting examples of literary analysis. You will turn in about two pages that includes bibliographic information for each article and a concise description of each article's content, structure, and purpose.
content: What is the article about? What is its thesis? How does it support its arguments? What is its approach to the text under consideration? What assumptions does the author use to ground her/his discussion?
structure: How is the article put together? What are its different sections and what does each accomplish?
purpose: Why was this article written? What need or curiosity does it serve? How does it contribute to an understanding of the text or to literary thought in general?
Each of your 3 examples should be about one of the first five texts of this quarter.
If you can't find anything about a text that you want something about, you may search the web, but scrutinize your sources thoroughly—no blogs or personal websites. Even if on the web, they must be journal articles.
+ Project task (proposal + excerpt) due Friday (see project development handouts from last qtr.)
All the same parts as the last one, each modified & expanded to suit your developing idea:
—explanation of your uses of mathematics (3 uses, one page each)
—an expanded sample, 3-4 pages
—short discussion of form and content: this piece can no longer be "speculative" — please be precise and provide a thorough description of your work (1 page)
—research narrative
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