(10 minutes) Today, since we've now spent a significant amount of time writing and working in different ways, we will reflect on what kind of work we find most interesting and helpful. On a blank sheet of paper, reflect on your labor log, considering the following questions:
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Today, as we move into the genre of the graphic novel, we're going to get in the practice of close-reading graphic novels.
Here's a summary of a few formal aspects of the graphic novel that McCloud described:
In pairs, choose one aspect of how the story is portrayed in a particular panel or page. It can be one of McCloud's formal elements above, or just a particularly thought-provoking aspect of an illustration.
For Class Discussion, I want to try out this new model today:
On Monday, we discussed the continual cycle of creation and destruction that Sebald seems to focus on in Rings of Saturn. Raya - thinking about the passage in which the "Dome of the Rock" is compared to "the dome of the new Sizewell reactor" suggested that Sebald disparages progress, that he laments the kind of "progress" that replaces religious temples with nuclear power plants.
Today, I would like us to take up a series of questions related to this point:
Passages:
We'll begin class by practicing asking good questions, since this is a skill you'll need for Paper 2. This can feel more difficult in the context of a larger text than the context of a single poem (Paper 1).
Example questions:
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