Nels's English 210 Spring 2012

This is a blog on which my students in English 210 can find writing prompts for generating their own blogs. I might share my own thoughts from time to time.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Extra Credit Cathy Davidson

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Here are the specifics for the Cathy Davidson talk on Friday I mentioned in class today. I think you will all find it interesting, but espe...

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Blog 8 due Monday, April 2--Chapter 13

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Chapter 13 "Alice Pyncheon" is probably the most famous chapter in The House of the Seven Gables . Most readers get the sense that...

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Blog 7-Defying expectations

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We ended class by looking at the passage in House of the Seven Gables from the chapter called "Maule's Well". It begins on pa...

What is Genre? What is theme?

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Because there was confusion today, here's a few more thoughts about what genre is and what theme is. Genre refers to the problem of d...

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Blog 6: Due Mon 3/19 The Gothic

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How would you define the Gothic? Use some examples from "The Fall of the House of Usher" or The House of the Seven Gables that y...

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Blog 5: Due Monday 3/12 Good Reading Practices

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In class Wednesday we modeled how you should be reading outside of class. I asked that you track observations about themes and form while d...

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Poverty Draft

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This is an article from 2007 that appeared in Sojourner's Magazine addressing some of the issues that we brought up today concerning why...

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