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ENG 251: Film and Literature, Summer I 2019
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Bradley Hall, Y-16 e-mail: [email protected] |
Important
Announcements and Updates
Thursday, June 27:
I have finished reading all work submitted,
including the Final Exam and your final research essay projects. Your final grades for the semester are posted at MyNCC (login required) and are also listed below by
ID number. These grades contain generous scaling, including bonus points
and adjustments. In addition, extra credit opportunities were announced in
class and were also posted here as well as on the main page. Therefore, do not email me to ask about �extra credit� or
other things you can do to bring your average up since you were �almost
passing� or �just one point away� from the A and so on; in reality, you
were probably closer to four or five points away.
Transcripts
will be available beginning July 8; you may request them here.
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Student ID |
Attendance/ Participation |
Quizzes |
Response Papers |
Final Exam |
Research Topic |
Research Bibliography |
Research Project |
Final Average |
Earned Grade |
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N00828300 |
94.7 |
75.6 |
70.7 |
B� |
1.75 |
3.5 |
C� |
75.0 |
C+ |
|
N00842425 |
93.1 |
63.4 |
78.4 |
B |
0 |
0 |
D |
70.6 |
C |
|
N00852176 |
92.6 |
46.0 |
30.8 |
D� |
1.5 |
3.75 |
D |
48.7 |
F |
|
N00853394 |
100.0 |
33.9 |
56.6 |
D� |
1.25 |
2.0 |
D |
59.8 |
D |
|
N00875337 |
� |
� |
� |
� |
� |
� |
� |
� |
W |
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N00876498 |
88.9 |
90.0 |
87.4 |
A� |
2.5 |
3.75 |
B+ |
90.2 |
A |
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N00886758 |
94.7 |
73.0 |
33.4 |
C� |
1.5 |
0 |
C�/D |
51.3 |
F |
|
N00907530 |
100.0 |
105.0 |
93.8 |
A� |
2.4 |
4.50 |
A |
99.7 |
A |
|
N00909072 |
100.0 |
93.8 |
82.3 |
B |
2 |
4.25 |
F |
82.6 |
B |
|
N00910661 |
93.4 |
88.8 |
92.5 |
A� |
2.2 |
4.5 |
A |
93.7 |
A |
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N00911673 |
100.0 |
108.8 |
100.0 |
A |
2.25 |
5.0 |
A |
100.0 |
A |
Enjoy the rest of the
summer, and for those continuing with classes in Summer II, good luck.
Tuesday,
June 25:
UPDATE (9:45 PM): I have just been informed that databases are
working on campus. Apparently, some hardware was damaged in the power outage
last week and equipment has to be ordered, so there is no timeline for
restoring off-campus access.
Most public libraries also have
at least limited database access, including Academic OneFile, Literature Criticism
Online, Literature Resource Center, and others. Check your local library's
website.
UPDATE (8:30 PM): I have heard from two different students that they are unable to access the college's research databases tonight to print out their sources. According to the library, off-campus access to the databases and streaming video is currently unavailable, nor is it clear when it will be restored.
If you have not already done so, finish your essay using the sources you already have or other appropriate online sources. (ie, scholarly criticism or analysis, not summaries, reviews, or �analysis� from sites such as e-Notes, SparkNotes, Wikipedia, 123HelpMe, or Gradesaver.com, et cetera.) If you have already incorporated into your essay material from sources in the databases but not printed them out to include in your folder, do not worry about printing them out tonight. We will see tomorrow if on-campus access is available and make suitable arrangements for submitting printed copies at that time.
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Tomorrow is the Final Exam; be sure to review all four novels and your class notes for each. You may also find the links on the main page helpful, especially those for both� Summary and Analysis and Online Quiz for each text.
In addition, your final research essay project is due
tomorrow. Do not forget that the essay must be submitted in a
folder, including copies of all secondary sources used with all
relevant passages
highlighted. You must also submit a copy via TurnItIn.com, in the folder labeled RESEARCH
ESSAY REVISION.
Friday,
June 21:
I have read all of the research
essay drafts that were submitted on time. Rather than waiting until Monday
to provide feedback, I will send each of you an email, addressing major
concerns or observations. This will allow you to continue working on and
revising your essay over the weekend. Some reminders about the final research
essay project:
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The essay should be at
least seven to twelve pages (1500-2500 words minimum); cover page and Works Cited do
not count toward the seven-page requirement.
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The paper must be
argumentative (persuasive), with a clear, explicit, and assertive thesis
statement.
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It must use a minimum
of five to seven sources, including three to five secondary sources; secondary
sources must be scholarly criticism or analysis, not summaries, reviews,
or �analysis� from sites such as e-Notes, SparkNotes, Wikipedia,
123HelpMe, or Gradesaver.com.
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You must include at
least one short quotation, one long�block�quotation, and one paraphrase, and
these sources must be properly documented (utilizing MLA format), and integrated into your writing smoothly and correctly.
For Monday, be sure to read
the rest of The Handmaid's Tale, through Part XV (Chapter 46)
and �Historical Notes� (189�311). Class will probably include a quiz,
discussion of some major points, and then viewing excerpts of Schl�ndorff�s
The Handmaid's Tale (1990) and season one of the Hulu series (2017).
Wednesday,
June 19:
It appears that last night�s update, below,
did not post correctly. As you can see, however, it is the same information as
in the email you received.
For tomorrow, read at least
though Part X of The Handmaid's Tale,
that is, through page 188. Since we did not have one today, there will be a quiz.
If you submitted Response Paper 11 today, be sure to upload it to TurnItIn.com before midnight
tonight.
Finally, remember that research essay drafts
are due tomorrow, as well as Response
Paper 12 and 13 if
you wish to submit them; all of these must also be uploaded to TurnItIn.com before midnight
tomorrow.
Tuesday,
June 18:
Tomorrow we will begin our last novel of the
semester, Margaret Atwood�s The
Handmaid's Tale. Read at least the Introduction and Parts I�V (xiii�xix,
1�75) Note: Parts I-V include Chapters 1 through 13. Do not stop at
the end of Chapter 5, page 29! There will
probably be a quiz, and I think I might ask bonus questions about Behemoth
and Tamara Faye
Messner, better known as Tammy Faye Bakker.
Note that Response Paper 11 is due tomorrow. If you choose to
write on it, be sure to upload it to TurnItIn.com as well.
We may also watch Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason: Margaret Atwood (Educational, 2006: 34:36).
Be sure to continue working on your research essay drafts for Thursday and be
ready to ask me any further questions tomorrow.
Sunday, June 16:
Due to unanticipated delays returning to New
York this evening, I will have to return your Annotated
Bibliographies on Tuesday rather than tomorrow. Be sure to continue working
on your research essay drafts for
Thursday and email me any questions.
For tomorrow, be sure to read the rest of Ray
Bradbury�s Fahrenheit 451, if you
have not already done so. There will probably be a quiz, and it might be
advantageous to know who or what are William Blake,
Icarus
and Ecclesiastes.
Tuesday, June 11:
I have added links for two additional
recommended readings to the schedule for today, June 11: Jonathan Swift�s �A Modest Proposal for Preventing
the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or
Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public� and Gulliver�s Travels
into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Tomorrow we begin Ray Bradbury�s Fahrenheit 451. Read at least through Introduction and Part 1 (xi�xvi and
1�65 in our edition), and there will likely be a quiz. You may want to
determine the source of the line, �It is computed that eleven thousand persons
have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the
smaller end.�
We will also likely see two short features, Fahrenheit
451, the Novel: A Conversation with Author Ray Bradbury and The
Making of Fahrenheit 451.
Sunday, June 9:
By coincidence (and probably at least in
part because of today�s National Puerto Rican Day), West Side
Story is airing on This TV at
4:30 this afternoon.
Friday, June 7:
According to the syllabus, �All
writing assignments must be received by the instructor on or before the due
date, by the beginning of the class period�. Students may also be required to
submit an electronic copy of their work via TurnItIn.com.�
A TurnItIn account
has been created for each of you, and information about accessing it has been
emailed to your NCC email account. Effective Monday, you must upload a copy
of your work to the class space on TurnItIn.com
in addition to handing in a printed copy. Submission windows will open at
8:00 AM the morning before the assignment is due and close at midnight on the
day it is due, so you will have sufficient time to upload your documents. For
example, if you plan to submit Response Paper 6 or 7 on Monday, you can upload
them from 8:00 AM on Sunday until 11:59 PM Monday night. We will discuss
and review this on Monday, as needed.
Also on
Monday, we will start with viewing A Clockwork Orange,
beginning where we left off, and then return to the text. Be sure to finish the
text: Read through Part 3 (145�212), including Chapter
21. (Part III, Chapter 7). If you are using an edition other than that
ordered for the class, be sure to also read Burgess, Anthony. �A
Clockwork Orange Resucked.� (Burgess� introduction to the 1986 American
edition.)
Wednesday, June 5:
For tomorrow, be sure to read through Part
II of Burgess� A
Clockwork Orange (83-143). As we did not fully cover Part I in class
today, we will likely discuss both the two ptitisas from Chapter 4,
Marty and Sonietta, and the Cat Lady from Chapter 6. In our quiz tomorrow,
however, all of the questions will come from Part II.
Tuesday, June 4:
I have added another link to the main page, �Gee Officer Krupke!�
from West Side Story.� It is (at least peripherally) related to the
discussion of the source of violence in Part I of Burgess� A
Clockwork Orange. As indicated in class today, we will likely have a
quiz tomorrow, so perhaps I will ask about this for an extra credit question�.
Monday,
June 3:
I have added the information about Hogarth at the Morgan to the main page, under Extra Credit.
As indicated in class, if students attend one or more of these events, and
provide evidence of attendance (ticket stub, program, unretouched digital
image, et cetera) along with a typed one- to two-page personal
response (review, analysis, reflection, critique, et cetera), they can
receive additional points: a single event and written response is worth 2
points extra credit.
Thursday, May 30
I have added the following additional links to
the main page:
Davenport, Coral, and Mark Landler. �Trump
Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science.� New York
Times 27 May 2019.
Digital
Millennium Copyright Act
Vonnegut,
Jr., Kurt. �Harrison
Bergeron.� (.pdf)
As a reminder, Response
Paper 3 and Topic Selections are due tomorrow.
For� tomorrow�s quiz on Part
2, you should probably look up the
terms goodthinkful and persiflage.
Wednesday, May
29
I have added several additional links to the main page, including
information about The
Spanish Civil War and the painting Guernica, as
well as a link to the text of Animal
Farm. The links for 1984
also now connect you to the full text of the novel; however, be advised that
while the works of George Orwell are in the public domain in Australia, where
these two novels are hosted (at the University of Adelaide),
they are still under copyright in the United States.
If you wish to submit Response Paper 2, it is due tomorrow; please see the instructions
on your syllabus or online, here.
The answer to the first question on tomorrow�s quiz, as discussed in
class today, is thirteen or thirteen o�clock. You should probably also know the
terms jus primae noctis
and duckspeak, as well
as other significant details from Part
1
Tuesday,
May 28
As Professor Rau explained to you this
morning, I had to take on this class unexpectedly last week. Unfortunately, I
already had plans for today and was unable to change them in order to start the
class, hence her presence in my stead. You should have received a copy of the
syllabus and three handouts to read for tomorrow, in addition to seeing a short
video introducing the concept of dystopia, the subject or theme of our class
this session. If you were absent or have already misplaced these documents, the
syllabus is here
and you may read the three documents online:
Le Guin, Ursula K. �The Ones Who Walk Away from
Omelas.� (from The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short
Stories by Ursula Le Guin.) Utilitarianism.com.
2017. https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf.
Lepore, Jill. �A
Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction.� The
New Yorker 5, 12 June 2017.
Locke, Charley. �The Real
Reason Dystopian Fiction Is Roaring Back.� Wired.com.
22 Feb. 2017.
If you wish to submit Response Paper 1, it is due tomorrow; please see the instructions
on your syllabus or online, here.
Friday, May 24
An interesting bit of news, peripherally
related to the class: the sequel to Wonder
Woman will be set in 1984. Read about it here.
Monday, May 20
The main page and syllabus have
both been updated for the Summer I semester.
Classes
begin on Tuesday, May 28; our first meeting is at 10:05 in G Building, Room 123.
The class page for Fall 2018, the last time I
taught this class, is located here.
If you are looking for the previous announcements, they are here.