READ THIS: PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS: please take these seriously: they are an important part of your participation in the class. Your job when you present is to lead the discussion on the reading for that day. You may bring in some research, but most of all, you should be very well-prepared with insights, interpretations, and questions about the reading at hand. You may want to begin by summarizing the progress of the plot represented by the excerpt assigned on that day. Then you should have passages picked out for the class to discuss. You may want to be ready, also, with the posts for the day (you can copy and paste them and print them out). The purpose of the presentation is to give more responsibility to the classmembers and de-center the discussion a little bit (although I will still chime in). Here are your assignments, mostly random. 1. Wed. 3/30 Small Things, 84-147, Eidia. 2. 4/4 Small Things, 148-225, Hannah. 3. 4/6 Small Things, ending, Anna. 4. 4/11 Ondaatje, Dan. 5. 4/13 Mukherjee, Michael. 6. 4/18 Poppies, 3-87, Karol. 7. 4/20 Poppies, 88-156, Jason. 8. 4/25 Poppies, 157-226, Joe. 9. 4/27, Poppies, 227-342, Will. 10. 5/2 Poppies, 343-446, Rachel. 11. 5/4 Poppies, finish, Jane.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

anna –Rushdie- 2/16

There is a lot of life in this book, an exhausting amount, rainbow colors etc..Rushdie seems to know exactly what the reader is thinking and manipulates us (though in a different way from the way Naipaul manipulated us) to believe certain things, to hope for the cause and effect of certain bait traps..and then with us in the palm of his hand he gives the bait away to the air and gives a different answer all together. NOW he has done this multiple times, I am beginning at page 133 to get it. Padma may too. So his parents are not his birth parents, he may not actually have two heads, but what other traps will be laid. How will Musa end the world on accident? (Does musa mean mouse btw?) Who will this other little "something of a shiva" boy be? WellI should hope not what I could expect.
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