Week 2 Newsletter

Hi All,

I hope you are all settling into your classes!

General Reminders & Announcements

• I have posted the assignment for paper 1 on the course site. I would like you to take a look at it and annotate it with any questions you might have. Use the same tool that you use to annotate the poems. The paper will not be due until 10/16
• Annotations: This is just a reminder that there is a tutorial for how to do these on the course site.
• Please check out my screencast about the Jonathan Culler chapter you read this week.

Completed Work

• This week you finished “What is literature and does it matter” by Jonathan Culler and wrote a blog post about this chapter. 
• You also read poems by Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and annotated these poems. I will be sending out an assessment of the annotations you made at the beginning of next week. 

Upcoming work

Next week you should do the following:

• *NEW* Use hypothesis to annotate Paper 1 assignment with any questions or confusion you have about the prompt
• Part 1:
  • Read: “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation,” Literary Theory: a Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
  • Respond: Reading question about “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation,” Literary Theory: a Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
• Part 2:
  • Read: “This world is not conclusion” & “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson
  • Annotate these poems according to the guidelines in my announcement.

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