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E 349, Lewis Carroll

34525 Fall 2015, Writing Flag

TTh 2-3:30 HRC Denius room 2nd floor

Jerome Bump

• 9-4: DUE BY MIDNIGHT QUESTIONNAIRES DUE : -5 PER CLASS DAY UNTIL RETURNED BY EMAIL INTRODUCTION BLOG: 15 PTS. AT STAKE

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9-6  Sunday: blogs for 9-8 and 9-10 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday

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sign outside the Denius room in the HRC

 9-8  MEET AT HRC;Annotated Alice, pp. 11-46 "Down the Rabbit-Hole"; "The Pool of Tears"; "A Caucus Race...."; "The Rabbit....."+ anthology pages; Discussion of Blogs. Quiz in class. "Best and Worst"for 2nd half of alphabet. HRC materials on display: Dodgson photographs, First Photograph

 

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 9-10  MEET AT HRC;x275-290 , 299 Alice books as guides to college., Oxford;"Caterpillar"; "Pig and Pepper"; Mad Tea Party"Annotated Alice,pp.47-79 ; Quiz in class. "Best and Worst"for first half of alphabet; Dodgson's Oxford. HRC materials on display: Italian translations and illustrations, Nursery Alice, Alice Underground

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9/11 12^th class day last day to add a class

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    9-13 Sunday: blogs for 9-15 and 9-17 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.

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9/14 Intrasemester reports due in the deans' offices.

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9-15; MEET AT HRC; "Queen's Croquet Ground"; "Mock Turtle's Story"; "Lobster Quadrille"  79-110 Quiz in class. Discussion of Blogs.""Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet;  

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9-17 MEET AT HRC; "Tarts"; "Alice's Evidence"; 110-136; x291-4, 554-598;  Alice in Many Tongues Quiz in class; Discussion of Blogs.""Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet;

• EXTRA CREDIT: BLANTON LECTURE ON GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES:
• 9 pts. if I see you there + up to 27 more for extra credit blog  -- many issues relevant to possible projects comparing some of the stories with Carroll's and comparing his revisions to theirs, especially changes concerning sex and violence
• Kate Bernheimer, Editor of the Fairytale Review and author of How a Mother Weaned Her Girl From Fairytales and Horse, Flower, Bird, as well as editor of the anthologies xo Orpheus and My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, will be talking at the Blanton Museum this Thursday, September 17th, at 6:30PM, on the literary context of the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm in the work of Natalie Frank.

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9-20 Sunday: blogs for 9-22 and 9-24 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.

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9-29: MEET AT HRC; "Invention"; "Queen Alice"; "Shaking" Waking" "Dreamed"; 233-273; Quiz in class.Discussion of Blogs. "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet 

10-1 Carroll, 'The Hunting of the Snark  Quiz in class. Discussion of Blogs. x391-418 [2] ANTHOLOGY: "Best and Worst" for 1st half of alphabet

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10-4 Sunday: blogs for 10-6 and 10-8* assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.

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10-6 MEET AT HRC;Sylvie and Bruno "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabetQuiz in class. x421-447 Discussion of Blogs.

10-8  P1a due online; 655-735; Meet at Blanton Art Museum for Brothers Grimm exhibit

If P1a is submitted by 2 PM 10-9 -10 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-10 -15 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-11 -20 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-12 -25 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-13 -30 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-14 -35 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-15 -40 points; If not submitted by then -100 points

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10-13:Banquet scene: Vivisection*; Discussion of Blogs, "Best and Worst" for 1st half of alphabet   (* The action of cutting or dissecting some part of a living organism; spec. the action or practice of performing dissection, or other painful experiment, upon living animals as a method of physiological or pathological study).

10-15, Banquet scene: Vivisection.Discussion of Blogs "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet Quiz in class on readings for 10-13.

   10-18 Sunday: blogs for 10-20 and 10-22 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.

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  11-1 Sunday: blogs for 11-3 and 11-5 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday. 

11-3 Last day an undergraduate student may, with the dean's approval, withdraw from the University or drop a class except for urgent and substantiated, nonacademic reasons.Last day an undergraduate student may change registration in a class TO or from the pass/fail basis.

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  11-8 Sunday: blogs for 11-10 and 11-12 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday. 

• 977-979           Banquet Scene Context
• 883-886           Imperialism
• 938-946           War of No Pity
• 887-905          1857 Reader
• not this afternoon but this evening This Changes Everything, Tue, November 10, 2015 | Avaya Auditorium, Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Building 2.302 7:00 PM to 10 PM The Humanities Institute will host two screenings of the film "This Changes Everything," (Trailer: https://youtu.be/YQhflH4alO ) inspired by Cline Visiting Professor Naomi Klein's book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, in advance of Klein's November 11 lecture. 8 pts. Extra CP credit if more than one class member: 8 pts. Extra Credit if only one.

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NOV. 11 Naomi Klein on Climate and Capitalism   11 pts. Extra CP credit if more than one class member: 11 pts. Extra Credit if only one.Naomi Klein on Climate and Capitalism  in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of several books, including the 2007 New York Times bestseller,The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and was also shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in the nonfiction category.

906-937           1857 Reader

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11-12 7-10 PM Hindu Student Association Diwali 10 pts. for attendance the whole time;up to 20 pts. for optional blog     

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November 13 EXTRA CREDIT: 10 CP pts. for attendance, up to 27 more for blog Faculty Seminar on British Studies    The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland By Douglas-Fairhurst Tom Lea Rooms, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 3.206  Friday November 13, 2015    2:45 for 3:00 p.m.

11-17 Totem animals then and now: cattle

11-19   Spirit animals here and now

November 19 - T.C. Boyle Reading 10 pts. of extra CP credit for proof of attendance. Up to 27 more for a blog about the experience! Thursday, November 19 at 7:30pm in the AVAYA Auditorium (POB 2.302). The amazingly prolific Boyle has published 25 award-­winning novels and story collections—most recently The Harder They Come—translated into two dozen languages. He will read a piece of fiction addressing environmentalist themes. His archive resides at UT's Ransom Center.

• 12-1 MEET AT Natural Sciences Museum ; spirit animals' point of view:

  It is TMM in this map:

  

• P2 critiques due at Midnight LATE PENALTIES: If submitted by 2 PM 12-2 -10 points; If submitted by 2 PM 12-3 -15 points; If submitted by 2 PM 12-4 -20 points; If submitted by 2 PM 12-5 -30 points; If submitted by 2 PM 12-6 -40 points; If submitted by 2 PM 12-7 -50 points; If not submitted by then -100 points.

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• 12-3 MEET AT CLA 0.108: Birthdays, imagery, sharing, Awards, evaluation. Winter and Spring birthdays: Dolphin 12/12; Kim 1/15; Sara 2/25

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  12-7 Office Hours  From noon by appointment  bump@utexas.edu

• 12-8 Office Hours  10:30-11:30, and from 1:30 by appointment

• 12-8 Final Due Date for P2 hard copy folder (up to 215 points)*

• NAME:                   Instructor comment

   

  _______ originality, insight,etc. (beyond first 1400 words of P1, if combined**): up to 30 points

  _________advances our understanding of Carroll and his achievement (beyond first 1400 words of P1, if combined): up to 30 points

  _________ basic research (beyond P1, if combined), up to 25 additional points

  ________HRC research (beyond P1, if combined), up to 100 additional points

  ______ plus points for good writing (beyond P1, if combined)

  ______    points from the three rubrics (up to 140 points) -3 for  each error or infelicity

  ________ - points from the other rubrics -1 point for each error or infelicity

  _________ penalties for being late, items missing from folder, missing basic requirements, etc.: an essay of at least fourteen-hundred words (without quotations) if the project is a new one or at least twenty-eight hundred words (without quotations), if the project is an expansion of project one. The project must include multimedia: at least two if fourteen-hundred words, four if twenty-eight hundred words. It should end with accurate word counts both with and without quotations. Finally, it must be acceptable college-level writing.

  **IF COMBINED P1 + P2, ALL PARTS THAT WERE NOT IN P1 NEED TO BE HIGHLIGHTED OR MARKED IN SOME FASHION AS "NEW"

             

  _______  total out of 200/300

• *WHAT SHOULD BE IN THE FOLDER TO BE HANDED IN?

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  P2 REQUIRED TO PASS THE COURSE

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  [1] YOUR FINAL COPY CLEARLY MARKED AS "FINAL COPY. " and with the three categories for evaluation clearly marked. FORMAT: DOUBLE-SPACED, WITH A TITLE, PAGE NOS., and FOOTNOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGES, using the University of Chicago footnote method. LAST PAGE SHOULD PROVIDE THE WORD COUNT (both with and without quotes) AND THE U.R.L. OF THE BLOG VERSION.

  THIS FINAL VERSION SHOULD BE PUT IN A POCKET FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME ON THE OUTSIDE OR -5. 

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  ALSO IN THIS FOLDER SHOULD BE these and only these related materials

  [2] The P1  rubric evaluation form from me and the P1 final essay edited by me, with my marks on the copy **

   

  [3] A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL DRAFT of P2B, THE ONE YOU UPLOADED TO CANVAS;

   

  [4] ALL CRITIQUES YOUR COLLEAGUES MADE OF YOUR SECOND PROJECT, PUT INTO A SINGLE WORD DOCUMENT, WITH THE NAME OF THE REVIEWER and the color code AT THE TOP OF EACH CRITIQUE.

   

  [5] A SECOND DRAFT OF P2 WITH ALL THE CHANGES YOU MADE IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE CRITIQUES, WITH CHANGES NOW HIGHLIGHTED AND COLOR-CODED TO SHOW WHICH CHANGES WERE MADE IN RESPONSE TO TO WHICH REVIEWER, INCLUDING ANY MADE IN RESPONSE TO THE INSTRUCTOR'S CRITIQUES OF P1.

  ** ELECTRONIC OPTION: IF YOU SCAN AND MAKE A FILE OF the P1 final essay edited by me, with my marks on the copy YOU CAN SUBMIT ALL THIS AS ATTACHMENTS TO AN EMAIL -- in that case no folder required.)

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  December 15 Final Due Date for all extra credit, P2 Critiques (up to 80 points), all optional blogs (up to 216 points):Grimm-Franks Talk, Blanton Franks Exhibit, Tim Burton's Alice, Earthlings, HRC Scavenger Hunt, Reagh Exhibit, Tom Lea Exhibit, Natural Science Museum