Saturday, December 13, 2008

12/12/2008

FINAL: MONDAY MORNING 8 AM

“no sleepy-eyed gerks”!!

FINAL GRADE
first test score
second test score
term paper evaluation
presentations score: individual + collective, class presence
blog score: engagement, depth
final exam: 25 questions

do NOT question your grade
“If I err, I err in your favor.” MS

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summative blog entries (Rebecca, Sutter, Taylor et al.)
  • The House at Pooh Corner
  • 
Innocence to experience in Pullman trilogy
  • visitation to the land of the Dead
  • a necessary sacrifice, a necessary leaving
  • only accessible thru another way of traveling -- the imagination
  • not just pretend, conjure


MS “When you wake up, when you come home, the hard work begins ... to make this world like that world -- without the feather, the knife, the compass ... Hamlet’s epiphany ... learn to 'move in measure like a dancer' ... pull your own strings, choose your own examples, make your life a work of art.”


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Montana -- Curiosity
Lynn -- Surreal: Illustrating Nonsense -- 2surreal.mov

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Friday and Monday

DON'T MISS CLASS ON FRIDAY!!!!!!

We will
  1. preview the final exam (bring questions from Pullman and presentations)
  2. do class evaluations

Final is Monday morning 8 AM (you could be done by 8:45 if you're prepared... :)

Saturday, December 6, 2008

December 8-15

group presentations continue -- Monday Dec 8 and Wednesday Dec 10

(Monday Dec 8 -- completed blogs due -- thanks Taylor!)

Friday Dec 12 -- review for Final

Monday Dec 15 -- Final 8 am

Friday, November 21, 2008

Term paper presentation dates

BE
SMART

INFORMED

ENTERTAINING

RELEVANT
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WEDNESDAY NOV 26 presentations:
  • Hannah X
  • Sadie X
  • Jesse X
  • Jill X
  • Ronnie X
  • John X
  • Taylor X
  • Ben X
  • Kathleen X
  • Emily X
  • Racquel X
MONDAY DEC 1 presentations:
  • Sutter X
  • Brandon X
  • Kayla X
  • Kyle X
  • Brett X
  • Kalli X
  • Stephanie X
  • Julie X
  • Ashley X
  • etc. ...


WEDNESDAY DEC 3 presentations:
  • Cheryl X
  • Lisa X
  • Danielle X
  • Aaron H X
  • Jessi X
  • Ryan X
  • Montana
  • Lynn
  • Erin X
  • Aaron D X
  • Katey C X
  • Rebecca X
  • Chris
  • Sam X
  • Cassi X
  • Dustin X
  • Adam X
  • Brittini X
  • Katie M


please keep presentation to 3 minutes or less!
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Monday, November 17, 2008

Assignment #15

blog your reading in Pullman, a running commentary w/ page numbers

Friday, November 14, 2008

Assignment #14: Term paper presentation

Term paper presentations:
  • begin Wednesday Nov 26
  • surnames from Z to A
  • three minutes
  • post to blog as well

Benson, Adam
Cichosz, Dustin
Clampitt, Cassi
Clanton, Samantha
Clark, Chris
Croghan, Rebecca
Crystal, Katey
Danno, Aaron
Doherty, Erin
Doyle, Lynn
Duncan, Montana
Dunigan, Ashley
Early, Ryan
Ecord, Jessi
Federer, Julie
Findley, Stephanie
Hasenkrug, Aaron
Hawley, Danielle
Hendrickson, Kalli
Hiller, Lisa
Irigoin, Brett
Kienitz, Kyle
Kitchens, Kayla
Knobel, Cheryl
Kober, Raquel
Lewis, Emily
Lowell, Kathleen
Mason, Katie
Miller, Ben
Moorman, Taylor
Nehring, John
Reid, Brittini
RIcker, Ronnie
Scarson, Jill
Spevacek, Brandon
Stolba, Jesse
Stremmel, Sutter
Tynes, Sadie
Vidrich, Hannah

Assignment #13: Corona boxes

Monday Nov 17
1 pm
English Dept conference room

Assignment #12: blog Pullman

Blog on Bill Pullman and "His Dark Materials" in preparation for class discussion beginning Monday Nov 17

Pullman's recommended reading @ UK Times online
His Dark Materials.org
Philip Pullman.com

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Assignment #11: favorite chapter in Alice

choose your favorite chapter from Alice and post a response

don't forget quiz #2 next Wednesday, Nov 12

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Assignment #10: 6 impossible things

think 6 impossible things before breakfast, then blog about them

Assignment #9: blog dream

blog about a dream before the end of the year... a dream "can't help but be related to children's literature"

Assignment #8: Alice and Oz

blog relationship through the 6 degrees of separation technique between Alice and Oz

Assignment #7: present draft of term paper

present class with draft of term paper

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Assignment #6

My Book and Heart Shall Never Part
Thursday Oct 23, 7 pm, Emerson
Colin McWilliams, Stuart Weber

the film runs ~ one hour
remain after for credits, acknowledgments and a drawing!!
be sure to bring your lovely tickets for the drawing...

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post your response to the film on your blog for Monday's discussion of film (October 27)

we'll begin discussion of Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Sunderland on Wednesday the 29th

Assignment #5

generate your term paper topic
probing, provocative
post to blog this week
papers will be presented in class the first week of December

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Assignment #4

retell Perrault's moral to Cinderella

post to blog

Monday, September 29, 2008

Assignment #3: three questions

1. What is a child?
2. What is a book?
3. What is nature?

bring hard copy to class Monday, Oct 5
post to blog

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

READ THIS Literature and Arts Conference 2008

MSU, The University of the Yellowstone's
Literature and Arts Conference 2008
Germinate and Cultivate

November 14 - 16, 2008
Montana State University ~ Bozeman

READ THIS Montana State University's Literature and Arts Publication is now accepting papers for its inaugural undergraduate academic conference. We are accepting critical essays, creative non-fiction, original poetry, fiction, drama/screenplays, or panel proposals. Our theme for the conference is "Germinate and Cultivate," a subject of origins and developments. Please submit your papers, approximately 3,000 maximum words, by October 20, 2008, with a $50 registration fee per person.

Our conference kick off will be a session Friday evening, November 14, with jazz, hors d'oeuvres, and introductions. See below for a tentative schedule.


Tentative Outline of Conference Schedule

Friday 11/14/08 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Welcome Session on campus with live jazz, hors d'oeuvres, and introductions

Saturday 11/15/08 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Check-in continues
Panel presentations on the MSU Campus
12 p.m. to 2 p.m. — Lunch workshop, lunch provided
2 p.m. to 6 p.m. — Panels/workshops on the MSU Campus
6 p.m. to 9 p.m. — Evening banquet with open mic, music

Sunday 11/16/08 Closing Ceremonies

Friday, September 19, 2008

MSU TOP 100 BOOKS 2001

O the mind,
mind has mountains;
cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer
no-man fathomed.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, "No Worst There is None"

Mountains & Minds
Montana State University
TOP 100 BOOKS 2001

1. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
2. THE BIBLE
3. DON QUIXOTE, Miguel de Cervantes
4. ILIAD/ ODYSSEY, Homer
5. METAMORPHOSES, Ovid
6. FINNEGANS WAKE, James Joyce
7. ORESTEIAN TRILOGY, Aeschylus
8. TAO TE CHING, Lao Tzu
9. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Lewis Carroll
11. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, Virginia Woolf
12. ULYSSES, James Joyce
13. PALE FIRE, Vladimir Nabokov
14. DIVINE COMEDY, Dante Alighieri
15. COLLECTED POEMS, Wallace Stevens
16. ARABIAN NIGHTS, Anonymous
17. WAR AND PEACE, Leo Tolstoy
18. BELOVED, Toni Morrison
19. COLLECTED FICTIONS, Jorge Luis Borges
20. CANTERBURY TALES, Geoffrey Chaucer
21. ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, Isak Dinesen
22. THEBAN TRILOGY, Sophocles
23. MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND
HARMONY, Roberto Calasso
24. KATHASARITSAGARA, Somadeva
25. SHORT STORIES, Anton Chekov
26. BHAGAVAD GITA, Anonymous
27. 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel García Márquez
28. GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES
29. INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison
30. ABSALOM, ABSALOM!, William Faulkner
31. WOMEN IN LOVE, D.H. Lawrence
32. LOLITA, Vladimir Nabokov
33. DIALOGUES, Plato
34. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, Marcel Proust
35. THE TIN DRUM, Günter Grass
36. COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, Flannery O'Connor
37. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Charles Dickens
38. THREE NOVELS, Samuel Beckett
39. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, Sigmund Freud
40. HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad
41. FOUR QUARTETS, T.S. Eliot
42. MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert
43. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN, Salman Rushdie
44. TRISTRAM SHANDY, Laurence Sterne
45. COLLECTED POEMS, W.B. Yeats
46. THE GOLDEN BOUGH, James G. Frazer
47. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING
EARNEST, Oscar Wilde
48. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austen
49. THE BLACK PRINCE, Iris Murdoch
50. THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN
SARAGOSSA, Jan Potaki
51. THE BACCHAE, Euripides
52. VANITY FAIR, William Thackeray
53. METAMORPHOSIS, Franz Kafka
54. THE AENEID, Vergil
55. TRISTAN AND ISEULT, Anonymous
56. COLLECTED POEMS, William Blake
57. THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald
58. ENDGAME/ WAITING FOR GODOT, Samuel Beckett
59. COLLECTED POEMS, Emily Dickinson
60. MOBY DICK, Herman Melville
61. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS
EXPERIENCE, Willliam James
62. MY ANTONIA, Willa Cather
63. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, J.D. Salinger
64. FATHERS AND CHILDREN, Ivan Turgenev
65. LIVES OF A CELL, Lewis Thomas
66. A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henrik Ibsen
67. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Kenneth Grahame
68. A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Ernest Hemingway
69. CHARLOTTE'S WEB, E.B. White
70. HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Mark Twain
71. LEAVES OF GRASS, Walt Whitman
72. IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A
TRAVELER, Italo Calvino
73. JANE EYRE, Charlotte Brontë
74. THE STORYTELLER, Mario Vargas Llosa
75. EPIC OF GILGAMESH, Anonymous
76. THE IDIOT, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
77. CATCH 22, Joseph Heller
78. WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Brontë
79. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES,Thomas Hardy
80. THE MAGUS, John Fowles
81. CEREMONY, Leslie Silko
82. WALDEN, Henry David Thoreau
83. NATIVE SON, Richard Wright
84. NATURE, Ralph Waldo Emerson
85. FAUST, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
86. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee
87. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Charles Darwin
88. PARADISE LOST, John Milton
89. TOM JONES, Henry Fielding
90. THE GOLDEN ASS, Apuleius
91. THE ART OF MEMORY, Francis Yeats
92. MIDDLEMARCH, George Eliot
93. AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, Peter Matthiessen
94. INNER CHAPTERS, Chuang Tzu
95. CANDIDE, Voltaire
96. THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, Friedrich Nietzsche
97. PASSAGE TO INDIA, E.M. Forster
98. THE SEA, THE SEA, Iris Murdoch
99. TRISTES TROPIQUES, Claude Lévi-Strauss
100. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, Zora Neale Hurston

Created by students in Literary Criticism Spring 1999, under the direction of Michael Sexson. Revised Spring 2001.