English Club

On Sunday, we will have our third meeting of the English Club. The time and the place are M3 301, 11:15 am.

See you there!

Reading 2, March 30

Tomorrow we have a quiz. I will also be checking homework. All the vocabulary up to this point is listed below.

Analyze

Formulate

Controversial

Commercial

Consumer

Conduit

Information

Variations

Action

Stream

Methodology

Actions

Mediate

Memory

Govern

Applaud

Algorithm

Disassembly

Poignant

Ideogram

Reversion

Essential

Extend

Instinctive

Assert

Discount

Amplify

To weather

To trigger

Envisions

Distracts me

Tedium

Instantaneously

Slippery

Swiftness

Audible

Unaccountably

Burden

Abused

Repetitious

Exploitation

Dedication

Convicted

Tackle

English Club

The second meeting of the English Club is scheduled for Sunday, 11:15, in M1 301.

The theme of the meeting is "Your Favorite Song." Bring an iPod or an mp3 on your phone to share with the group.

Remember that Oral Skills will meet on Mondays in M1 303, where we have access to a DVD player and computer.

Class on Wednesday

Reading 2 Assignment: Finish Chapter Four on "Aging." This includes the article, "Lost Keys," by Paul Milenski. Below is a profile I found on Milenski.

Oral Skills Assignment: We will begin working on our StorySLAM activity. Try to think back on a formative experience that might be appropriate for a ten-minute autobiographical performance. Below is a sample from The Moth, a New York City story-telling club. There is some inappropriate language, so I apologize. Please avoid it if you are sensitive to that sort of thing.

Author's Bio

I helped incorporate the Berkshire Writers Room (Massachusetts) in the mid-80's, and it's still going strong. Although I write just about anything, including commentary, court investigative reports, and novels, I have a special fondness for those wee little fictions: the short-shorts, the best of which can be as powerful as good poetry.

Publications and Prizes

Anthologies:

Looking for America (Systime, Denmark, 2002), Sudden Fiction International(W.W. Norton & Company, 1989)

Journals:

Berkshire Review, Great River Review, Quarterly West, Wind Literary Journal, Witness,World of English

Prizes:

AWP Short-Short Competition, Four Consecutive PEN Syndicated Prizes, Bobst and Capricorn Runner-Ups, others.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson,Justine by Durrell, Wuthering Heights by E. Bronte, Best of/Short Story Collections by Many

Favorite Books:

I subscribe to about thirty literary periodicals and read contemporary fiction and non-fiction books, but I end each day reading selections from one or more of the classics noted above.

Favorite Authors:

All who grind it out. My best to the youngsters out there who write from the heart.

Class Tomorrow

In addition to the two presentations in Oral, we will also have a listening-and-response activity.

For Reading 2, you should read the article, "Strange Stones," about Peace Corps, and finish Chapter 4 on aging.

By the way, here's a funny video about American diplomacy.

U.S. Condemned For Pre-emptive Use of Hillary Clinton Against Pakistan

English Club

The first English Club meeting will be Sunday, March 20, at 11:15 in M3 301. You can bring your lunch with you.

Oral Class: Wednesday

Wednesday, we are going to discuss stereotypes of Arabs. We also have two student presentations, so be early and ready to go!

These are the two videos. Try to watch them before you come to class.

Reel Bad Arabs, Part One

Reel Bad Arabs, Part Two