january 22
TRANSCRIPT
“Being a professor is the easiest thing in the world--you just have to act like you know all the answers. Being a
student is much harder because you not only have to wring the answers from the cryptic professor, but you also
have to make sense of them.”--John Maeda
thinking time
survey results
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lecture discussion projects visual/ppts writing notes
plus: notes on board, fish bowl, pair share and stories
A. E. Housman on the causes of obscurity in poetry:
When the meaning of a poem is obscure, it is due to one of three causes. Either the author through lack of skil l has fai led to express his meaning; or he has concealed it intentionally; or he has no meaning either to conceal or express. In none of these cases does he l ike to be asked about it . In the f irst case it makes him feel humiliated; in the second it makes him feel embarrassed; in the third it makes him feel found out. The real meaning of a poem is what it means to the reader.
When I was One and Twenty--A.E. Houseman
When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,
'Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubiesBut keep your fancy free.'But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,'The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.'And I am two-and-twenty,And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
metonym: a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated.
For example, Washington is a metonym for the federal government of the U.S.
Metonymy: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for
business executive, or the track for horse racing.
generating paper topics:
an arguable question
examples:ideal size for a church?
what makes a great con artist?how has the use of ____ word changed?
start broad then narrow:
let’s try to find some decent questions:wikipedia random article
aldaily.com