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English 210: Introduction to Texts

Dr. Jennifer Shaddock

Semester   Days and Times    Room  (Tentative course model.  Content may change.)


Figurative Language

Literal vs. Figurative Language

Week 7
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Day 4

 

 


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

 

Week 8

Day 1

 

Day 2

 

 

Day 3

 

 

Day 4

 

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.

 

Metaphors as Basis for Thought

Week 9

Day 1

Day 2

 

 

“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)

 

Metaphorical Concepts and The Tempest

Week 9
Day 3

 

 

 

 


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"

 

Metaphorical Foundation of History

Week 9
Day 4 

 


Excerpt from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon (and gloss) (handout)
Week 10

Day 1


Day 2

 

 

“The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” Frederick Turner (handout)

“Empire of Innocence,” Patricia Limerick (handout)

 

Metaphorical Foundation of Science

Week 10

Day 3

 

 

Day 4

 

 

"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

 


 

"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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