due Friday 9/17

Your analysis of Cannery Row is due, including your columns and rows, your original observations, and your descriptions. If you've sent them already, you don't have to send them again.

Bring "How" with you to class.

due Thursday 9/16

same assignment:

Read "How" for tomorrow, Thursday, and for Friday, write your analysis and make sure I have the other materials as well.

due Wednesday 9/15

Nothing is due Wednesday, bu due Thursday: complete your reading of the short story "How."

Due Friday is your analysis of how love works or what love is like in Cannery Row. IF you can, email it to me, along with the following (unless you've alrfeady emailed these things:

list of observations

columns two and three (do not have to be in column form)

one-page-long description

due Tuesday 9/14

Write a description of how love works or what love is like in Cannery Row.

Don't argue a thesis, or claim, but if you have ideas as to what your claim might be you can integrate that idea into your description.

The description should be about a page, double-spaced.

If you can, try to be artful, to have fun, to use your natural powers of organization.

Ideally each paragraph will be about one thing (unified), and coherent (one sentence will follow from the one before), and it will demonstrate your understanding of your subject.

Ideally each sentence will be specific.

But don't worry too much--this is mostly to help your thinking along.

Email me your description.

due Monday 9/13

1. Think about our class discussion today: does it change your thinking? If so, incorporate that change of thinking into your analysis.

A particular concern: If your interpretation doesn't have any evidence to back it up, or pattern of evidence to make it plausible, your interpretation will run into trouble.

Another concern: your column three questions: don't force them. Don't let the act of coming up with a question force you to move away from the evidence. It would be better not to come up with a question.

2. Write another row (column 1, 2, and 3) for a passage having to do with love that is not from chapter 28, but which will allow you to keep going with the same analysis as your rows on chapter 28 observations.

Don't forget to take time in column two mode to pick out an important word, discuss it, and find an example from another part of the book.

Good luck!

due Friday 9/10/10

You have completed one "row" (column 1: observation; column 2: interpreting; column 3: summarizing sentence and line-of-inquiry-question). You have also written the interpretation (column 2) part of a second row.

1. For this second row,

a) write a summarizing sentence and line-of-inquiry-question

b) pick an important word from the passage you're discussing and think about how it bears on the question of love; then find another example of what you're talking about in another part of the book.

2. Do a third row, all three columns. Do the important word/example from elsewhere in the book part as part of column two; don't wait until you've done column three.

You don't need to send this work to me but you will have to send it to me or hand it in eventually--it will be part of your analysis grade.

due Thursday 9/9

1. Read at http://www.walnuthillfaculty.org/Humanities/ about the Core Analytical Process.

2. Fix your observations as necessary.

3. Write another "row," that is, a paragraph in which you think about what another observation from chapter 28 has to do with love. Go beyond your first thought. Try to not to repeat what you did in your first "row." Try to keep developing your thinking.

Homework due Wednesday, 9/8/10

1. Read through the course syllabus. I'll send it to you by email.

2. Read the Humanities Department policies under "Other Resources" at http://www.walnuthillfaculty.org/Humanities/.

3. Re-read chapter 28 of Cannery Row, the chapter about Frankie stealing the clock and getting caught, unless we already did in class.

4. Make all the observations you can concerning any parts of the text that might have something to do with the subject of love. Try to come up with ten observations. Write down these observations. Then

a) save them to a safe place on your computer.

b) Send a copy of your observations to me at sdurning@walnuthillarts.org.

We'll define observation as a statement about a subject, that any sane, knowledgeable person would agree was true. There might be debate as to whether what you observe has anything to do with love or not; you can explain the connection to love later.