January 2019
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Discuss Syllabus
Discuss: What is literature? What is translation? What are literary forms? Genre? Period? Rhetoric? The narrative?
Notes and the Cornell Method.
Classes Begin
Discuss: What is literature? What is translation? What are literary forms? Genre? Period? Rhetoric? The narrative?
Notes and the Cornell Method.
Classes Begin
15
Read "Traducción: Literatura y literalidad" by Octavio Paz
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Continue: Genre? Period? Rhetoric? The narrative?
Discuss translation (article by Octavio Paz)
Novela: elementos narrativos (narrador/narratario, punto de vista, personajes, temas, tono, el fondo histórico o la situtación, el escenario, el lenguaje, historia, acontecimientos o sucesos, argumento central, trama, objetivo [antecedentes, complicaciones, giros u obstáculos, avances, el desarrollo de la acción, el clímax, desenlace]), subgéneros de prosa, subgéneros de la novela (1)
Discuss translation (article by Octavio Paz)
Novela: elementos narrativos (narrador/narratario, punto de vista, personajes, temas, tono, el fondo histórico o la situtación, el escenario, el lenguaje, historia, acontecimientos o sucesos, argumento central, trama, objetivo [antecedentes, complicaciones, giros u obstáculos, avances, el desarrollo de la acción, el clímax, desenlace]), subgéneros de prosa, subgéneros de la novela (1)
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Read for exactly 30 min in each language. Mark distance covered. Note perception of novel. Start in Spanish (1,2) If you have extra time, start the Introduction.
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Track Meet
19-20
Last Day to Add/Drop -
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Martin Luther King Day
HS Snowday
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Continue reading.
Credit by Exam
26-27
Finish reading.
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Written Read Report 1: Look for key literary and novelistic elements of Chp1 and/or 2 that would help explain the chapter's importance in the novel. Try to explain how G.G. Márquez crafts the fictional world, what are the essential plot points, and what is the literary value of this/these chapters. Ultimately, try to answer these questions: Why and how should a reader read this/these chapter/s? And, what should s/he look for? (1 to 2 pages in MLA format)
Discuss: Magical Realism (1)
How did the audiolibro change your impression of the Spanish version?
Discuss: Anécdota de GGM
Guía: Análisis de una novela
