English 33:

WEEKLY COURSE SCHEDULE:  Week 6 

Special Note: As I mentioned in class, the bookstore mistakenly ordered copies of last semester's class booklet, so if you don't have the version with the keyboard on the cover, take your old class booklet to the bookstore, go to the Information Counter, and trade your old booklet for a new one.  There is no charge to do this. 
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Extra Credit:

Koyaniqaatsi. Thurs, 6 March. at 7 p.m. College of the Redwoods Downtown Center, 605 K St., Eureka. Cinema and the Environment: A Symposium series features film by Ridley Scott. Discussion afterwards with CR Professors Peter Blakemore and George Potamianos.

Remember, all you have to do is go, take notes, get a program of ticket stub, and write a one-page journal (double-spaced) that is your review of the event.  The journal is due at the next class session.  The extra credit is worth 20 pts., but you can only do one extra credit for the semester.
2/29 Class 6 1) Go over syllabus and announcements
    2) Dave will read a strong piece from the stack
    3) Share BBB quotes from readings (pp. 28-43).
4) Three dimensionality in characterization
5) Discuss "The Conjurer Made Off With the Dish" especially the food and how it's incorporated into the theme/plot of the story.
6) Share food exercises in small groups.
7) Dave will hand back graded work.


Homework 1) Choose from one of the following exercises, write two-four pages, and have five copies for class:
     A) Take a favorite flat character (comic strip, film, fairy tale, myth) and update it and give the character both a more complex character, as well as a less clear atmosphere of good/evil in which to operate.
     B) Take a unambiguously morally good or morally evil character and put him/her in a situation in which he/she undergoes a transformation--and emerges as the antithesis to what he/she has been--either evil or good.  Now watch everyone's confusion.
     C) Send a superhero to the shrink and let him/her spill his/her true motivations for being good, i.e., Superman just wanted to be popular with the girls.  Or use a letter to someone to do the same thing.  
     D) Take a historic figure who is seen in mythic proportions and tell the true story of his/her life.  Reveal that it was a more complex set of circumstances or thinking that lead him/her to act as he/she did.
2) Read BBB and mark up to share quotes/ideas with class.  Read pp. 44-63 and do record any great quotes in your writer's journal.  
3) Bring a photo of a friend or family member and an interesting story about that person that you can safely share.
    4) Read "Henne Fire" on p. 71, write a synopsis on a 3 x 5 card, and come prepared to discuss, paying particular attention to the sense of character that I.B. Singer develops in his smoking protagonist.

Note:   The above assignments and deadlines are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances.

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