Calendar
August 2014
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
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Classes Begin
Group Seating / Syllabus / Pics
Why I Write - Orwell / Group Discussion
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Read: Declaration of Independence
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Key Concepts: focalizer/point of view, semantic map or semantic field
Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer
Ambulance Method: Declaration of Independence / George Mason and Thomas Paine / Rousseau, Montesquieu
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Write a narrative paragraph describing your last automobile accident.  Then, read this fragment from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Key Concepts: Ekphrasis
Narration Paragraph: Pair-pair read / Group discussion / Narrative paragraph versus narrative in the novel / Dialogue (indirect vs. direct discourse)
Ekphrastic Description: Urn (2) / “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats / Turner’s Slave Ship / Ruskin / Hazlitt

Write an ekphrastic description for Vermeer’s Milkmaid.  Bring to class.
Read: “Cezanne's Ports” and “Three for the Mona Lisa”
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