Essays Due Week 9
To all Intermediate English Composition classes: your essays are due at the beginning of Week 9. Your essays are due,
Presentations Schedule (to Midterms)
Here is the Presentations Schedule from now until Midterms: 28 September: Yea Hyun & Min Jung on Elvis Presley Jin
Questions for Discussing “Recklessness”
Here are the questions I posed to the class, in order of discussion: Apply the “types” of characters and stories
Osmosis & Transformation: The Beats and Beyond
This week, my lecture will focus on the beats and perhaps a little on the later movement that grew out
This Week’s Homework
We discussed the underlying questions that clear topic sentences answer: What are you writing about? What do you want to
From Blues to Jazz…
Today I lectured a little about parallels between African-American and European musical traditions, focusing on musical structure and tradition of
Second Handout
Hi there. Sorry, I forgot to upload the second handout for you — the one dealing with types of stories
Student Info Sheet
Hi everyone. Some students still haven’t given me Student Information Sheets. I’ve run out, but some people still need the
Recklessness, by Eugene O’Neill
The first One-Act Play we will be studying is “Recklessness” by Eugene O’Neill. Please have this play read by Sept
Week 1: The Roots of Popular Culture: From Blackface Minstrelsy to the Harlem Renaissance… and Beyond
This week, we talked about the roots of American and global popular culture in the tradition of blackface minstrelsy, and