plagiarism

I've been slowed down a bit with the paper grading, as I'm finding I'm having to do a few more searches of distinctly unusual phrases than I anticipated. I'll grant 12 hours of amnesty to anyone who comes forward on their own to "rewrite" a paper/paragraph.

Lot 49, Final

Open discussion on The Crying of Lot 49, or links to cool supplemental material will be credited also.

AP LIT

Review for Final, 50 points.

25 multiple choice questions over the novels we’ve read this semester (The Crying of Lot 49, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Bear, Ethan Frome, Turn of the Screw, Love is the Best Medicine, Rape of the Lock, Volpone, Candide). Be familiar with the author, year, plot, major characters, and elements of style of particular note in each novel. No Reading Journal, no texts.

Essay worth 25 points over The Crying of Lot 49, with connections to other readings. Don’t worry so much about the plot points for Crying as much as how Pynchon uses the language to tell his story. In preparation, I would suggest you choose any two pages of the novel and thoroughly examine what stylistic choices have been made. This way, when I present you with a reading selection from Crying during the final, you will already have made some generalizations about his writing and will quickly be able to find similar approaches. Finally, show me some original thought by connecting your Crying comments to other works we’ve studied.

United Fruit Company

Nothing fancy to this link, just some background for you on United Fruit. Interesting company, especially when you can link the political authorities connected, eh?

Here's the book we excerpted today.

And a bit on magical realism that's rather pedestrian. Some images with soundtrack here (identify the muzak for extra cred). I'm personally much more interested in the post-colonial condemnations of the term (and here).

Arpita and Mr. Swegarden speaking tommorrow night!

Oh, and Chelsea, would you believe I had to take Spanish six times to pass it thrice!?!? I am however, proud of two moments I learned it rather quickly. 1. While watching sea turtles lay eggs on a beach, a Costa Rican soldier aimed his rifle at me and began yelling questions at me. 2. When I stayed at a home in Paraguay and wouldn't receive food unless I spoke in Spanish, with the formal tense!! Portuguese, however, is another story for another time.

OHYOS - open discussion

Share your insights, thoughts, observations, and reading journal ideas here:)