Literal
vs. Figurative Language
Week 7
Day 3
Day 4
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Student Presentation—Handbook term
"Texts, Thoughts and Things," (45
TB)
"What Words Are: Metaphor,"
(51-56 TB)
"Metaphor and Dream," (60-63 TB)
"Poetic Uses of Metaphor," (71-75
TB)
The Tempest, Act I
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| Week 8 Day
1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
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The Tempest, Act II
NARRATIVE ESSAY DUE
The Tempest, Act III
"Completing Texts: The Reader's
Work," (164-67 TB)
"Sources of The Tempest,"
(handout)
Student Presentation—Handbook Term
The Tempest, Act IV-V
Review Figurative Language Collaborative
Essay Assignment
C'EST MOI PROJECT: Bring to class the more
than fifty texts you have selected that define your identity.
Your peer group will help you discern patterns of conflicts to
emphasize, intriguing items, organizational ideas, and ways to focus
or supplement emerging ideas.
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Metaphors
as Basis for Thought
| Week 9
Day 1
Day 2
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“Concepts We Live By,”
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (76-87 TB)
“A New Game for
Managers to Play,” Robert W. Keidel, (88-91 TB)
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Metaphorical
Concepts and The Tempest
Week 9
Day 3
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Student Presentation(s)—Handbook
Term
“Education by Poetry,”
Robert Frost
"Completing
Texts: The Reader's Work," (160-162 TB)
On
Analogy and Interpretation: review "Source of The Tempest"
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Metaphorical Foundation of History
Week 9
Day 4
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Excerpt from The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon (and gloss) (handout) |
| Week 10
Day 1
Day 2
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“The Significance of the
Frontier in American History,” Frederick Turner (handout)
“Empire of Innocence,”
Patricia Limerick (handout)
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Metaphorical
Foundation of Science
| Week 10
Day 3
Day 4
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"AIDS
and its Metaphors," Susan Sontag, (91-103 TB)
Student
Presentation(s)—Handbook Term
"Medical
Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Birth," Emily Martin (handout)
"'Clean'
Bombs and Clean Language," Carol Cohn (handout) |
Metonymy,
Synechdoche, Symbol
| Week 11
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
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"Metaphor and Metonymy:
Advertising,” (120-127 TB)
Bring advertisement to class
“Mail Order America,”
Holly Brubach (handout)
Bring mail order catalogue
to class (if you have one)
Student Presentation—Handbook
Term
Small Group
Workshop—generating ideas for Figurative Language Essay
Bill Moyers documentary |
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