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Week 12…

I have most of your collaborative essays on language comparisons in my bag, and need to read them this week. I hope our meetings last week were helpful to you in figuring out how to expand your essays in the coming weeks. If not, please come and see and and we can discuss this further.
We’re discussing citation this week, and so the following handouts will be used…

An excellent source for more on the MLA format, and examples of cases not covered in my handout, can be found here.

Other homework for this week:

Plays Ready

I’ve spent the weekend editing your plays into shape, and now they’re ready. Here they are:

English Through Drama MW:

English Through Drama TTH:

Since I promised you that you would get a chance to see my one and only play written in Korean — written by myself, with only a little editing advice from others — I’ve decided to upload it here, so that you can download it and read it. HOWEVER, please do not upload it anywhere else. It’s MY play and I want to keep it until I decide to share it with the world. Please respect this. Thank you. By the way, yes, the jokes are really stupid. The play was written for foreigners to perform in front of elementary schoolchildren, so there’s a lot of slapstick humor.

Confused? Read This!

Hi there!

Last week, class was a little rushed, so maybe I didn’t make some things clear. So I’m doing that now.

You’re probably wondering about your assignments and what’s happening next week.

Part 1: MEETINGS

Next week (Nov. 13 – 17) we’ll be meeting at my office, not at class. Students must sign up for a meeting. Students in my TTH class have already signed up, but students in the MW class need to go to my office and sign up on the door for a meeting. There is a paper on my office door. (My office is N223.)

Every student will have ten minutes to discuss his or her essay with me. I’ll explain my comments and my thoughts about how to expand your essay and get a better grade on the final version of this essay (which will be your final exam). Because ten minutes is a short amount of time, you ought to prepare for the meeting. You should:

Part 2: YOUR PARTNERED COMPARE & CONTRAST ESSAY (ENGLISH & YOUR MOTHER TONGUE)

Last week, you started writing an essay with your partner(s). You’re writing a short compare-and-contrast essay about Korean and English (or, for some of you, Chinese and English). I said to both classes that you need to give it to me on Monday, but that’s silly, since we’re meeting all week.

So I decided that the deadline for these essays, for both classes (MW and TTH), is Thursday at 5pm. Please DO NOT put the essay under my door. Instead, please put it in my mailbox in the English Language & Culture Department Office. You can feel free to submit the essay before that time, either to me or to my mailbox, but the absolute deadline is Thursday, November 14th 16th at 5pm.

Any questions?

Pop Culture in the UK, Part 2

We looked at Monty Python again a little bit (includng the clips from last week, and a newly discovered “long-lost” clip here), and then turned to The Office. I’ll upload the question sheet soon (it’s on my other computer).

After working through the pilot episode of The Office, we had a glimpse of the Sex Pistols, including the song God Save the Queen (mp3, lyrics, and video plus a better video). We’ll talk more about punk, and turn to sport culture in Britain, next week.

Here’s the small documentary clip that I might play if we have time, after discussing the song. (Otherwise I’ll recommend you to check it out after class.)