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Starter- Reflect on yesterday's seminar!
1. Overall did you enjoy reading The Stranger? Why or why not? 2. What did you takeaway from yesterday's seminar? What new understandings, insights or appreciations did you have? Today's Humor: Thug Notes on The Stranger AGENDA 1. Discuss your interpretations of "Shades" 2. Intro to Lit Circles
Get organized with your lit circle
Research your book and then discuss these prompts: Resources on your book can be found HERE (please add any good resources you find to this document throughout our lit circle time)
Time to read and prepare for meeting #1 (which is tomorrow!)
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NO STARTER: Today is The Stranger seminar day!
CLASS BIZ
While you are NOT seminaring, please do the following: 1. Read "Shades" by Boleslaw Prus (I recommend reading it at least twice) and form an interpretation of the story! Annotate your thoughts, questions, and confusions in the margins. Your goal will be to write about these two questions after reading:
*A note about interpreting literature: There is not ONE right answer that we are looking for when we analyze literature. There are many theories about how to approach literary criticism ("deconstruction" is one, in fact), but for now, open yourself up to whatever the lit might be saying to you, rather than trying to find some predetermined, absolute meaning. The same can be said about your interpretations of The Stranger for tomorrow's seminar. 2. Formulate your interpretation of "Shades" in your starter google doc. Again, try to answer these two questions and use evidence from the story to support your claims:
STARTER (15 minutes)
"Killing an Arab" by The Cure Listen to the above linked song and follow along with the lyrics. Then Interpret the song and react. What intellectual and/or emotional impact do the lyrics and music have on you? (philosophically speaking…) How does this song develop/advance/confuse your own understanding of the scene in The Stranger? Of the "Absurd"? Of Existentialism?? "Standing on the beach With a gun in my hand Staring at the sea Staring at the sand Staring down the barrel At the Arab on the ground I can see his open mouth But I hear no sound I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab I can turn And walk away Or I can fire the gun Staring at the sky Staring at the sun Whichever I chose It amounts to the same Absolutely nothing I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab I feel the steel butt jump Smooth in my hand Staring at the sea Staring at the sand Staring at myself Reflected in the eyes Of the dead man on the beach The dead man on the beach I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab" CLASS BIZ
AGENDA 1. Share out starter responses 2. Some humor to ease the transition into deep thinking for seminar prep work time: Does studying existentialism sometimes make you want to scream like these guys? 3. Individual seminar prep work time! (remainder of class) STARTER Journal for 10 minutes in response to the following poem. Or write a poem back. Or just react. In light of everything we have been studying lately, where does this poem hit you?
Mary Oliver, The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mini-workshop on making interpretive claims about literature Make an interpretive claim about the Mary Oliver poem. BUT FIRST, I'll go over guidelines for interpretative claims then you'll come up with one on your own and write it on the whiteboard. 1. What makes for a good claim about literature/film/art, etc?
3. Now, write your interpretative claim on the whiteboard! Individual Seminar Prep Work Time!
CLASS BIZ: Choose your lit circle book preference!
STARTER Transience: the state or fact of lasting only for a short time; transitory nature.
AGENDA 1. Watch TED Talk: Paradox of Choice *In many ways this relates to the idea of angst as caused by freedom of choice! A more modern twist on the idea of choice! Journal response in your starter doc, titled "Paradox of Choice"
2. Group seminar prep (SHARE A COPY OF YOUR NOTES WITH ASHLEY!) 3. Begin Individual seminar prep (Due for TUESDAY's Seminar!)
Objectives:
Starter
CLASS BIZ Individual seminar prep (Due for TUESDAY's Seminar!)
AGENDA Finish Existentialism Powerpoint THE STRANGER Discussion
Part 2, Chapter 3
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