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Harvard Extension School Expo E-25; Section 12 (5:30PM-7:30PM) . Instructor: Julie Anne McNary Please check your Elluminate Audio Wizard We will begin at 5:30PM. Expository Writing E25: Introduction to Academic Writing and Critical Reading Analyzing the Short Story.
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Harvard Extension SchoolExpo E-25; Section 12 (5:30PM-7:30PM) Instructor: Julie Anne McNary Please check your Elluminate Audio Wizard We will begin at 5:30PM.
Expository Writing E25: Introduction to Academic Writing and Critical ReadingAnalyzing the Short Story Online WebConference Via Elluminate SoftwareWebsite: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k64023Elluminate Room:https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007009&password=M.3163A85F45E3980D9A1F3875B7EED6
Overview • Updates • In-class exercise and discussion – sample Comparison and Contrast paper. • Conference Schedule
Our Book and Chapters • ISBN #0-321-47583-6 • Chapters we’ve read so far: • 1: Reading a Story • 2. Point of View • 3. Character • 4. Setting • 5. Tone and Style • 6. Theme • 13. Writing about A Story • 7. Symbol • 8. Evaluating a Story • Re-assigned section in Writing about a Story, 678-681
A & P Teenage Wasteland How to Talk to a Hunter Sonny’s Blues Roman Fever The Girl on the Plane Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Until Gwen (new)*** Hills like White Elephants The Lottery Miss Brill Cathedral Rich Brother The Storm To Build A Fire The Greasy Lake A Pair of Tickets Lost in the Funhouse The Things They Carried Winter Dreams Everything That Rises Must Converge (new) Bigfoot Stole My Wife The Stories for Essay #2
Upcoming Schedule • First Draft of Essay #2 due on Monday, November 9, and Wednesday, November 11, depending on your comfort-level • Conferences scheduled with JAMc that week • Final Draft of Essay #2 – Due Wednesday night, Midnight, November 18. • Monday, November 16, Essay #3 assigned – class vote thereupon. Schedule to be determined. • November 23 – no class – instructor conflict.
IN-CLASS WRITING EXERCISE • 35 minutes • Go to our class website and retrieve copy of The Farmer and the Scavenger Essay. • Read the essay very carefully and see if you can outline the structure thereof, both overall and within the individual paragraphs. • DO NOT worry if you have not read the materials referred to in the essay – just look at the structure. • Ideally, highlight structural areas that work, and question areas that don’t. • Come back to the classroom prepared to discuss the essay in depth.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULING • Conferences will be held via Elluminate on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week. • Alternative weekend dates available as well.