This is a unit on Complex Sentences. It includes a video to …
This is a unit on Complex Sentences. It includes a video to introduce the concept and a picture poster example that could be printed and displayed in the classroom as a reminder of what a Complex sentence is. It also has a list of subordinating conjunctions on 'time' that would be used with teaching complex sentences . Has two student activities for practice. Could branch off this to teach the rest of the subordinating conjunctions and practice writing.
In this interdisciplinary seminar, we explore a variety of visual and written …
In this interdisciplinary seminar, we explore a variety of visual and written tools for self exploration and self expression. Through discussion, written assignments, and directed exercises, students practice utilizing a variety of media to explore and express who they are.
Student Learning Objectives As a result of meeting the requirements in this course, …
Student Learning Objectives As a result of meeting the requirements in this course, you will be able to:1. Employ a variety of approaches to analyze and interpret texts. 2. Respond to texts, in discussion and writing assignments, demonstrating an understanding of rhetorical strategies employed in the texts. 3. Incorporate the fundamentals of academic essay writing such as gathering ideas, developing and clearly stating theses, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing. 4. Compose essays in several rhetorical modes, such as description, comparison/contrast, and argument. 5. Move from personal responses to formal academic essays, including appropriate, properly formatted evidence from outside sources. 6. Accurately incorporate the ideas of others using summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation. 7. Incorporate the academic requirements, tools, and techniques of research through the resources of contemporary information science. 8. Employ current MLA style for text presentation, in-text citations, and Works Cited pages for essays and research papers. 9. Write an argumentative research paper accurately incorporating material from outside sources.Course RequirementsYou will be required to do the following:Write at least four multi-paragraph assignments of at least 500 words.(Meets student learning objectives 1-5)Write at least one in-class essay. (Meets student learning objectives 2-5)Complete other writing exercises such as summaries, journals, reading responses, reading comprehension questions, quizzes on reading assignments, letters, resumes, etc. (Meets student learning objectives 1-6)Read, interpret, and analyze a variety of texts. (Meets student learning objectives 1, 2)Conduct independent research and write a 5-7-page research paper, using MLA style. (Meets student learning objectives 6-9)Submit papers that adhere to MLA manuscript requirements and which demonstrate effective proofreading and editing. (Meets student learning objectives 1-9)Participate in class discussions and other in-class (individual or group) activities necessary to produce quality expository prose. (Meets student learning objectives 2-7)
This course incorporates original OER materials with readings from the novel The …
This course incorporates original OER materials with readings from the novel The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien, a gripping and compassionate account of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War and readings from the textbook Composition II from Lumen Learning. The course will challenge students in their reading and writing skills while providing them with a historical and cultural context to better understand war, peace, and the human condition.
Short Description: Recopilación de cuentos de ciencia ficción Word Count: 12106 (Note: …
Short Description: Recopilación de cuentos de ciencia ficción
Word Count: 12106
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This unit focuses on children’s book illustrators who are from families of …
This unit focuses on children’s book illustrators who are from families of African American artists and authors. My goal is to use a new lens and approach when bringing the picture book art to my students through literature we enjoy throughout the year. This artist/author study includes the works of Leo and Diane Dillon, a husband and wife team who have been creating art together since they met at the Parsons School of Design in 1953; Jerry and Brian Pinkney, father and son, who have earned between them dozens of awards and recognitions for their work on children’s books; and, Donald Crews, Ana Jonas, and their daughter, Nina Crews, all authors and illustrators of a great variety of picture books and stories.
This course covers issues in contemporary French society as expressed through movies …
This course covers issues in contemporary French society as expressed through movies made in the 2000s. Topics include France’s national self-image, the women’s movement, sexuality and gender, family life and class structure, post-colonialism and immigration, and American cultural imperialism. Films by Lelouch, Audiard, Doillon, Denis, Klapisch, Resnais, Rouan, Balasko, Collard, Dridi, Kassovitz, and others. Readings from French periodicals. Films shown with English subtitles. Taught in French.
This semester, Contemporary Literature (21L.488) deals with Irish literature, a subject broad …
This semester, Contemporary Literature (21L.488) deals with Irish literature, a subject broad and deep. To achieve a manageable volume of study, the course focuses primarily on poetry and prose, at drama’s expense, and on living writers, at the expense of their predecessors. Each class session follows a discussion format, often with students assigned to lead-off or summarize the day’s topic.
What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over …
What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over its distant colonies is a thing of the past. Its sway within the global political arena is weak. Its command over Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland is broken or threatened. What have novelists made of all this? What are they writing as the old empire fades away and as new social and political formations emerge? These are the questions that will concern us in this course.
Central to our era is the gradual movement of all the world's …
Central to our era is the gradual movement of all the world's regions toward a uniform standard of economic and political development. In this class we will read a variety of recent narratives that partake of, dissent from, or contribute to this story, ranging from novels and poems to World Bank and IMF statements and National Geographic reports. We will seek to understand the many motives and voices – sometimes congruent, sometimes clashing – that are currently engaged in producing accounts of people in the developing world: their hardships, laughter, and courage, and how they help themselves and are helped by outsiders who may or may not have philanthropic motives. Readings will include literature by J. G. Ballard, Jamaica Kincaid, Rohinton Mistry, and John le Carré, as well as policy documents, newspaper and magazine articles, and the Web sites of a variety of trade and development commissions and organizations.
In this class we will focus on the connections between urban exploration …
In this class we will focus on the connections between urban exploration and reading, attending to such shared concerns as pacing, legibility, transgression, attention and distraction, tracing and retracing, and memory. This idea of re-reading cities will be both a theme centering our discussions and a guiding principle of the course design, as we continuously loop back, returning to haunt texts we left behind earlier in the semester.
Students in this course will examine short stories and short novels published …
Students in this course will examine short stories and short novels published in France during the past 20 years, with emphasis on texts related to the dominant social and cultural trends. Themes include the legacy of France's colonial experience, the re-examination of its wartime past, memory and the Holocaust, the specter of AIDS, changing gender relationships, new families, the quest for personal identity, and immigration narratives. This course is taught in French.
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Annabel Patterson, Professor Emeritus of English, Yale …
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Annabel Patterson, Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University for a discussion of her career as a literary scholar. The discussion focuses on the challenges of understanding literature in its historical and social context. Her work on censorship, Shakespeare, and her current research on the use of words in the American political dialogue are some of the topics addressed in the conversation. (59 minutes)
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian and novelist Michael Oren for a discussion …
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian and novelist Michael Oren for a discussion of the search for truth in his historical studies and in his novels. He reflects on the skills and temperament required to do history and fiction focusing on his study of the six day war in the Middle East and his novel Reunion. (54 min)
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