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=Monday, February 13= = = =Tuesday, February 14= = = =Wednesday, February 15= = = =Thursday, February 16= > > Reader Response > > Gender Criticism > > Social Power Criticism (Marxist) – > > Character or Psychological Criticism > > Archetypal Criticism – > > Biographical > > Historical Perspective > > Cultural Criticism > > Postcolonial criticism > > > > = = =Friday, February 17=
 * check for printed essay draft
 * helpful criticism
 * specific ideas that can be changed
 * "Need signal phrase before this passage."
 * "Thesis should go at end of intro"
 * "Leave out references to yourself"
 * Don't disagree with the opinion of the thesis
 * disagree with clarity
 * disagree with thesis being addressed in all paragraphs
 * Share essay with two other people
 * write comments on small pages
 * put initials on little pages
 * pass essay to other person
 * Get vocab crossword
 * due tomorrow before vocab test
 * essay due - 50 pts.
 * rough draft due - 10 pts.
 * outline due - 10 pts.
 * accurate MLA form - 10 pts.
 * Total = 80 pts.
 * Nursery Rhyme literary analysis
 * looking at it from different points of view
 * vocab quiz - Greek Roots II
 * vocab crossword due
 * notes on schools of literary criticism
 * finish literary criticism notes
 * Some Schools of Literary Criticism –
 * lenses through which people look (often unconsciously) when they read and write.
 * assumes author’s intentions aren’t available to the reader; the reader only has the text.
 * Readers actively make meaning from the text.
 * Describing the process of responding to the text is valuable.
 * the work itself doesn’t have its own gender point of view; any reading is influenced by the reader’s own status, including gender, attitudes toward gender, etc.
 * women and men have not had equal access to all of writing and reading (historically, culturally). Therefore they see stories differently; these differences are valuable.
 * People’s thought and behavior is determined by economic factors.
 * Those who control more industry or money can force their values on others.
 * looking at the internal motivations of characters as an expression of the feelings or state of mind of the author.
 * those motivations of the character or the author help figure out the meaning of the text.
 * refers to a recognizable pattern or model in stories, character types, or images.
 * assumes that these patterns are part of our whole culture, dreams, and rituals
 * it is assumed these patterns are universal, possibly primitive
 * Themes:
 * hero’s journey
 * search for a father
 * Images
 * opposition of heaven and hell
 * a river as a sign of life
 * mountain as a place of enlightenment
 * Characters
 * the rebel-hero
 * the scapegoat
 * the villain
 * the goddess
 * looking at the author’s personal life for parallels in the literature
 * can be helpful and dangerous; can go too far
 * some of the author’s life is completely irrelevant; some writing is really fictional
 * looking at work within the historical time it was written
 * looking at culture of the time
 * takes into account historical, social, political, economic contexts of a work
 * regards all man-made objects as texts to be analyzed: posters, calendars, baseball cards, comics, and literature (words, pictures, or both)
 * awareness of European culture taking over the land and privileges of other continents
 * focuses on areas that had been colonies of other countries; had had an imported culture imposed on them
 * Western institutions made non-Western ones powerless
 * resources and riches were assumed to be available to the new arrivals
 * often assumed religious superiority gave the right to do this
 * work on group posters
 * choose passage
 * discuss Winthrop, vis-a-vis postcolonial criticism
 * finish posters