Reading Assigned

Short Guide to Writing About Literature:
Style and Format 275-296; Summary and Paraphrase 72-75; Draft Writing and Editing 36-47; Explication and Analysis 48-71/What is Evaluation? 109-115/What is Interpretation? 97-107/ Essays 152-156/ 84-96 Lit and Meaning/ Read and Reflect: Short Guide: pp 116-124. learn the 10 critical approaches. Which ones have you used before? Which ones do you think are the most valuable? Could you pass a midterm quiz on the subject of these 10 items? 139-160. Thinking about how to create or think about stories: plot, character, setting. try analysing THUMBSUCKERs plot, character, setting with these ideas. Writing about the Author pp261-271;

Genius of Language: Getting the Message of a Longer Essay
Introduction by Lesser; CHINESE Yes and No; FRENCH Without Tears; BANGLA Way Back; SPANISH Footnote to a double life; GERMAN Prelude; Read: : ITALIAN Where is the Ligurian coast? Why did the author go to the American Consulate in tears on page 128? Review and Reflect; SCOTS "Boswell and Mrs. Miller" ( pp 193-205) What do (or did) the English think of the Scots? What do (or did) the Scots think of the English? Which Critical Approach (pick one or two) do you think would be the best way to approach this essay?
Review and Reflect: Genius: LINGUISTIC ADOLESCENCE: a term from the GERMAN essay "Prelude" by Thom Laqueur...review it, and also review Thumbsucker 88-102 about the baby. What neologisms or protologisms occur in Thumbsucker from the 1970s adolescent lexicon (e.g. "assne") Are any of these still current today, do you think? Which ones? Reading: GREEK in Genius of Language: What aspects of Canadian language makes the author happy? POLISH (Begley) pp 161-175: Would you say that Begley is an optimist or a pessimist? YIDDISH humor in a cultural language // GIKUYU p102f GENIUS LANGUAGE //

English as a Global Language: Finding the Significance in Facts
Chapter 1 , 2, 3 Skim, 4: 123-140, 14o-160,

THumbsucker: Putting together the jigsaw puzzle of a novel . Understand the divisions of the book : Mouth to Mouth, Hyper, Kingdom Come. What do they signify?

Other
--Half Nelson, a movie review by an English native speaking student