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*Always bring the following to class: your laptop (in its bag), pen and paper, necessary texts.

Monday, January 29 (Day C)
In class: Revising and editing the Feed journal. Download file
Homework:
1. Post twice to the Discussion Board (Blade Runner topic) by Wednesday's class.
2. We'll share our contemporary parallels in class tomorrow (Tuesday). Be prepared with "evidence" (copy of an article or web page or photo, etc.) of how the topic features in life today.
3. Tonight, write a detailed entry on the Discussion Board explaining the similarities and differences as the topic plays out in our contemporary world and the world of the novel.

Tuesday, January 30 (Day D)
In class: Revising and editing the Feed journal.
Homework:
1. Include at least five quotations from the novel in your journal entry. Revise and edit to make sure the quotations are woven into the body of your sentences and to make sure the citations are written and punctuated correctly.
2. Revise and edit to eliminate past tense verbs in your discussion of the novel in your journal entry.
3. Use the Edit/Find/Replace mechanism in MS Word to highlight and eliminate the off-limits words. Watch this video tutorial to learn the steps for using this handy revision tool.

quote
fact
opinion
hopefully
“meaning that”
versus (vs.)
constantly
amongst
one (for all people)
you
entire
definitely
often times
for example/example
for instance
very

Wednesday, January 31 (Day E)
In class: Revising and editing the Feed journal.
Homework:
1. Using the Edit/Find/Replace mechanism in MS Word, highlight all forms of "to be" and "to have" in the journal entry. You may include only three forms of each verb in your piece. Revise and edit to conform to these guidelines.
2. By Friday, update your entry on the Discussion Board explaining the similarities and differences as the topic plays out in our contemporary world and the world of the novel. Make sure you talk about the novel and also about our lives today. Also, explain the "physical evidence" you're going to share in class to demonstrate how the topic functions today. Bring this in on Friday to share with the group.

Thursday, February 1 (Day F)
In class: Revising and editing the Feed journal.
Homework: Journal entries are due at the start of class tomorrow (Friday).

Friday, February 2 (Day A)
In class: What does it mean to be a human being in the 21st century? (We'll share our topics/parallels.)
Homework:
Read "A Way Out of Wonderland" and "Postmodernism" (POMO) from the electronic documents you copied off the Instruction drive.

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*Always bring the following to class: your laptop (in its bag), pen and paper, necessary texts.

Monday, January 22 (Day D)
In class: Begin drafting the Feed journal. Download file
Homework:
1. Read to p. 244 in Feed.
2. Draft the first paragraph of your journal entry.
3. Try posting again to the Discussion Board.
4. We'll share our contemporary parallels in class on Monday, January 29. Be prepared with "evidence" of how the topic features in life today, and write a detailed paragraph explaining the similarities and differences as the topic plays out in our contemporary world and the world of the novel.

Tuesday, January 23 (Day E)
In class: Watch Blade Runner in the Presentation Hall.
Homework:
1. Read to p. 263 in Feed.
2. Draft the second paragraph of your journal entry.
3. We'll share our contemporary parallels in class on Monday, January 29. Be prepared with "evidence" of how the topic features in life today, and write a detailed paragraph explaining the similarities and differences as the topic plays out in our contemporary world and the world of the novel.

Wednesday, January 24 (Day F)
In class: Watch Blade Runner in the Presentation Hall.
Homework:
1. Read to p. 285 in Feed.
2. Draft the third paragraph of your journal entry.
3. We'll share our contemporary parallels in class on Monday, January 29. Be prepared with "evidence" of how the topic features in life today, and write a detailed paragraph explaining the similarities and differences as the topic plays out in our contemporary world and the world of the novel.

Thursday, January 25 (Day A)
In class: Watch Blade Runner in the Presentation Hall.
1. Read to p. 300 in Feed (the end of the novel).
2. Finish the rough draft of your journal entry.
3. We'll share our contemporary parallels in class on Monday, January 29. Be prepared with "evidence" of how the topic features in life today, and write a detailed paragraph explaining the similarities and differences as the topic plays out in our contemporary world and the world of the novel.

Friday, January 26 (Day B)
Drop Day
Homework:
See Thursday night's homework (above).

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*Always bring the following to class: your laptop (in its bag), pen and paper, necessary texts.

Monday, January 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday)
Homework:
From Friday: Read to p. 94 in Feed.

Tuesday, January 16 (Day F)
In class: Feed (read, annotate, discuss)
Homework:
Read to p. 138 in Feed.

Wednesday, January 17 (Day A)
In class: Feed (research topics to identify contemporary parallels)
Homework:
Read to p. 182 in Feed.

Thursday, January 18 (Day B)
Drop Day

Friday, January 19 (Day C)
In class: Feed (Discussion Board)
Homework:
1. Read to p. 228 in Feed.
2. Post at least three times to the Feed topic on the Discussion Board.
2. We'll share our contemporary parallels in class on Monday, January 29. Be prepared with "evidence" of how the topic features in life today, and write a detailed paragraph explaining the similarities and differences as the topic plays out in our contemporary world and the world of the novel.

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*Always bring the following to class: your laptop (in its bag), pen and paper, necessary texts.

Monday, January 8 (Day A)
In class: The Book of Questions and Life in the 21st Century
Homework:
1. Print the Film Permission Slip and have it signed by a parent/guardian.
Download file
2. Read the "Course Overview" and "Classroom Expectations" pages and the Late Work Policy-Avoiding Plagiarism Guidelines with your parents. Print the LWP-APG and have it signed by a parent/guardian.
Download file
3. Bring all the class texts to class on Wednesday (Feed, Nine Stories, Hamlet, Gertrude and Claudius).

Tuesday, January 9 (Day B)
Drop Day

Wednesday, January 10 (Day C)
In class: Begin reading M. T. Anderson's Feed (and complete the following tasks):
1. Register for the Discussion Board. You’ll find instructions on the Discussion Board link at the right.
2. Copy the EggsDocs folder from the Instruction Drive onto your laptop (into your My Documents folder).
3. Add the "MC_Ricoh" printer to your laptop's printer list. Instructions
4. Using a Sharpie, label all class texts with your first and last names on the top spine.
Homework:
Read to page 28 in Feed.

Thursday, January 11 (Day D)
In class: Our first coffeehouse: Life in Feed and life today-charting the similarities
Homework:
Read to page 49 in Feed.

Friday, January 12 (Day E)
In class: Feed (discuss and draw topics to research contemporary parallels)
Homework:
1. Read to page 94 in Feed.
2. Draw a topic from Feed and start looking for an example of a contemporary parallel. You have a week to come up with a good example.

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The course explores the 20th century philosophy of existentialism through many lenses—books, movies, plays, and music. We’ll read, watch, and perform Hamlet and several parodies of the play, including Tom Stoppard’s clever and provocative Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and we’ll compose our own film adaptation proposals. Twice a month, we’ll have a coffeehouse discussion to relate the philosophy’s “big questions” to our own lives. We’ll read novels, short stories, poetry, and prose excerpts from around the world to see how different writers address the same question: What does it mean to be a human being?

spring 2007
Feed (M.T. Anderson)
Hamlet (Dover Thrift Edition)
Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
Gertrude and Claudius (John Updike)

Unit One - Life in the 21st Century
Feed
Blade Runner
Koyaanisqatsi
Etexts: from Postmodernism, from Generation X, from Martin Dressler, "A Way out of Wonderland," "pity this busy monster manunkind"

Unit Two - Existential Crisis and Philosophy
Cool Hand Luke
Nine Stories
Munich, A Room with a View, Thelma and Louise, The Big Chill, Four Days in September, Garden State, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Etexts: "The Wall," "The Myth of Sisyphus," "The Deer at Providencia," "Howl"
A-words: Absurd, Alienation, Aware, Authentic, All, Act

Unit Three - Hamlet (and friends and family)
Hamlet (Dover Thrift Edition)
Gertrude and Claudius (John Updike)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)

Units Four and Five - Personal Code and Personal Identity
excerpts from Persepolis
Hoop Dreams
Kramer vs. Kramer
Norma Rae

Etexts: from Separate Checks, "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Barbie Doll," "The Story of an Hour," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," "Living Like Weasels," "Song of Myself," "Wild Geese"

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spring 2007
Feed (M.T. Anderson)
Hamlet (Dover Thrift Edition)
Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
Gertrude and Claudius (John Updike)

We'll use a variety of etexts. Copy these from the EggsDocs folder on the Instruction drive.
"Barbie Doll" ( Marge Piercy)
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (Ernest Hemingway)
"The Deer at Providencia" (Annie Dillard)
from Generation X (Douglas Coupland)
High School Journal
"Howl" (Allen Ginsberg)
"A Hunger Artist" (Franz Kafka)
Lexus
"Living Like Weasels" (Annie Dillard)
from Martin Dressler (Steven Millhauser)
"The Myth of Sisyphus" (Albert Camus)
"pity this busy monster manunkind" by e.e. cummings (PPT version)
from Postmodernism for Beginners
from Separate Checks (Marianne Wiggins)
"The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (Ernest Hemingway)
"Song of Myself" (Walt Whitman)
"Star Wars"
"The Story of an Hour" (Kate Chopin)
"The Wall" (Jean Paul Sartre)
"A Way out of Wonderland"

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