No, not It: The Terror From Beyond Space! or some reference to Cousin It, but Clara Bow's 1927 romantic comedy that helped popularize the phrase, "the 'it' girl." Today, students will turn in their first assignment, the scene description from One Week, and do a little reflective writing on the project, before moving on to …
Elements of Literary Study: The Physics of Writing about Literature
EN200 has thus far been rather consumed by close discussion about the literature we've read thus far--I've been attempting to model some methods of analysis, as well as to stimulate debate and discussion. We are moving into our first major assignment, now, and I feel we've got a good set of basic vocabularies and discourses …
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Finishing Moll Flanders
As we wound up our discussion of Moll Flanders on Wednesday, I was especially interested to note student's investment in ethical questions--both those raised by Moll herself, and those raised by our reading of Moll. I briefly raised the "surprised by sin" argument, and we considered whether it could be applied to Defoe's novel. Our …
One Week
Composition 102 students today will be introduced to the first major assignment of the term, the scene description; I really like this project as an introduction to the class because it is not argument based but it does require close, precise description, concision, and a few other key elements designed to introduce students to writing …
Popular Fiction by Women
I'm so very much looking forward to EN426 this term! We had what I thought was an excellent first class last night, though the first portion was livelier than the second--of course, we were discussing Haywood at the beginning, and I modeled a sample presentation on Backscheider & Richetti's Popular Fiction by Women in the …
Day One…
What's on the agenda for EN102 and EN200 today? Well, I'd like to start thinking about the coursework right off the bat--it's always best, in my book, to begin challenging the class so as to set a productive tone. Especially in composition 2, where students generally need practice with managing time and approaching tasks effectively. …
The Perils of Creative Research
DC/Praxis January 9, 2010 “Because I Like It”: The Perils of Creative Research (Composition I: Retrospective Analysis) Last term, I taught a Composition I course at Marymount focused on analyzing, researching, and writing about images. I'd taught several comp classes before—almost too many to count—but I was eager to have the opportunity to break away …
New Classes, Old Classes, Reimagined Classes
Classes resume on the 11th of January for us here at Marymount, and I have to admit, last term was a bit of a supersonic blur--and the holiday "break" was anything but, given our trip to Philadelphia for a serious several days of interviews. Syllabi are due on the 4th (er, that would be today!), …
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We survived, but what will become of us?
So, the last week of classes is here--which means papers, projects, and presentations galore. In DSC101, my students successfully finished their commentary projects, and they are rightfully proud of their work. Not all the groups were able to sustain the analysis throughout the entire length of their films, perhaps because of time management and pre-planning …
Web 2.0 Teaching Roundtable
Happily, I'll also be presenting the results of my pedagogical experiments in EN/HU501 this term at the 2010 ASECS conference in Albuquerque! Last night, we explored the basics of the Omeka resources database, and virtually the entire class has taken a look; everyone seems interested in participating in this experiment by contributing to it, so …
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