th02 april 2020…

1. Ok all… thanks for sticking with me today through our brief foray into the sonnet form. I know that we covered some of this material back in the fall, but I thought it would be a good “low impact” segue back into the minutiae of literary analysis and close reading. We’ll do some more work along these lines next week…
2. In the meantime, I would like for you to do a kind of update IW to keep me apprised as to how your choice reading is going thus far…
3. This IW will be due no later than 8am on MO, April 6th. The folder will be “IW: Choice Read Update”…
4. This IW is a two-parter. I would really appreciate it if you could sustain each part for around 375-400 words (or more, of course)…  750-800 words total. Volume does matter, to a certain degree, with regard to these IWs, as does creativity, intellectual perceptiveness and audacity, thinking beyond the box both deep-down and out-wide, stylistic flourishes, structural flourishes (i.e. for example, your IW does not HAVE to be built out of the typical paragraph units…), random content additions like photos, graphs, drawings, graffiti, jokes & riddles, questionnaires, and so on.
5. Prompt: Part One: Please spend some time thinking about setting with regard to your choice reading. Remember that setting is not simply about place, but is also about time, as well. Describe the setting (or settings) of your choice read material and reflect on how it (they) create a vibrant and meaningful and complex/challenging backdrop to the characters and their actions, as well as to the ideas and themes expressed in the novel(s). Part Two: In a very different vein, consider all the sonnets that you have read this week, in any of the handouts that I emailed. Select one (if you are reading both The Crying of Lot 49 and Season of Migration to the North you may pick two sonnets, one for each, or one sonnet that covers both) that you both liked and that you feel displays a strong connection to some aspect or aspects of your choice reading selection(s). Then write reflectively and informally and explicitly on the interconnection(s) that you see and sense.