Gents: With most of class gone today, we were productive nonetheless. Here's what we did:
Also, please remember that the $70 for the Humanities field trips is due next Friday, September 13th.
- I handed back papers to you all (even the lunch-eaters from the raffle), besides Henry and Paul. For all of you: feel free to rewrite at your convenience (just be sure that you don't submit during the last week of the quarter).
- We reviewed the Language of Film (DyKnow), analyzing the video below using Joliffe's Framework. We started from the bottom with the microscopic skills (shots, focus, transitions, sound/audio), moving our way to the top to the organization, rhetorical appeals, and rhetorical situation. Be sure to watch this if you haven't seen it; focus not just on what the video says, but how and why the creators say it.
- In a lovely segue, we connected this with the Close Reading skills from Chapter 2 of The Language of Composition that you started practicing in your Heart of Darkness Double-Entry journal. To start, we analyzed a loose sentence early in HoD dealing with Marlow, focusing on the denotations and connotations of the word "ascetic" and coming to the conclusion that the sentence (like most great writing) demonstrates the idea of "form fitting function," as it creates an air of mystery and nebulousness about Marlow as the unnamed narrator sits on the deck of the Nellie, preparing to listen to him tell his tale.
- All of this information is on DyKnow (in greater depth and clarity than this).
Also, please remember that the $70 for the Humanities field trips is due next Friday, September 13th.