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Eng 3: Reading Natiure & Writing Poetry
WPE Dec. 2012

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Week 12
  34) M 3 Dec—Thoreau #7: Realizing Idealism (marked passages from “Civil Disobedience” pp. 73 a to a-19
                in Rhet II; excerpt from film Gandhi); Conclusion to Walden (underlined passages pp. 70 c-4 to c-9 in Rhet II); Modern Thoreau Heritage (excerpts from Annie Dillard, Norman Maclean); class time to work on intro paragraph for Thoreau paper
      Term Paper poems: e. e. cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” “When Serpents
      bargain for the right to squirm”
      Due: write draft of 2nd & 3rd main body paragraph of PAPER on Thoreau’s imagery
  35) T 4— Whitman #1: “Noiseless Patient Spider” (pp. 74, 74 b to b-2 in Rhet II); Whitman #2: read aloud
                “Song of Myself,” sect. 1-6, 24 (pp. 74 c to 74 c-5 in Rhet II); select favorite passage and explain how it is Idealist; e-mail to WPE
      Term paper poems: Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” (Google)
      Due: Final Draft of PAPER (3-5 pp., typed) on Thoreau’s imagery (due at lights out Tues, 4 Dec;
                                                              e-mail to WPE)


      W 5 Dec Wed Tour Extra Credit tour
      Film of A River Runs Through It
                      or American Idealist Paintings at the National Gallery of Art
      12:30-2:30 PM


  36) Th 6—Whitman #3: The Dionysian (excerpt from Voices & Visions video); read aloud “Out of the Cradle
                Endlessly Rocking” pp. 74 e-3 to e-7 in Rhet II; select favorite passage and explain how
                it is Dionysian; e-mail to WPE
      Term paper poems: Langston Hughes, “Dream Deferred” and “Weary Blues” (Google)
      Due: finish reading pp. 74 b to b-2 in Rhet II on “Noiseless Patient Spider” + finish reading “Song of
                Myself,” sect. 1-6, 24 (pp. 74 c to 74 c-5 in Rhet II) and e-mail selected passage to WPE
  37) F... [continues]

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