Thursday, April 15, 2010

Final Exam

Today (Thursday the 15th of April) is the final exam for ENGL 108.

We'll be meeting in room 152 on the lower floor of CFAC.

You will have three hours to complete the exam: 9:00 - 12:00


Good luck everyone!





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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Review

Today we'll review for the exam. We'll go over content and the general structure of the exam.





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Monday, April 5, 2010

Lecture 13: Transliteracy and Inanimate Alice

Today's lesson will be devoted to reading a new kind of narrative - an online multimodal one (Inanimate Alice).

The outline for today's class will go like this:

BACKGROUND:
What is a web fiction?
What is multimodality?
What do I mean by transliteracy?

YOUR TURN:
Transliteracy in action



Read Episode 1, 2 and 3 of Inanimate Alice. If time permits, read Episode 4.

While reading note:
How reading this online fiction is different from reading the essays in the course books or reading the texts for your research assignment
What can readers infer about the identity of Alice? What traits does Alice seem to possess?
1 instance of foreshadowing
Complete this sentence: “I think the author is trying to say....”
The definition of transliteracy, do you feel you are transliterate? Why or why not (explain).


Post your responses to the class blog DURING this lesson