Presentation Schedule

Here is the presentation schedule:

Thursday, 12/1:
Taylor
Margeux

Tuesday, 12/6
David
Emma
Kristen
Ashina
Andrew
Michelle
Lukas

Thursday, 12/8
Nick
Chris

Also, if you've been checking Angel, you'll notice that the grades for the weblog posts have been replaced by the final grade (expressed as a percentage) for that assignment, since it's now complete as of 11/29/11. 

We will have one more quiz today before the final (optional) quiz on 12/8.

Change in office hours on 11/15 and 11/17

My office hours tomorrow (11/15) will be from 1-2 rather than 12:30 to 2 because of a meeting; on Thursday, they will be from 1:30-2:30 for the same reason. However, I'll be on campus most of the day on Wednesday if you would like to meet with me then.

Responses to criticism

Add your responses to the critical essays in the comments below.

Lecture on Aesthetic Movement

The lecture material (PowerPoint) for the Aesthetic Movement is available in Angel.

Also, here is the link that Taylor talked about in class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkA17QI1gSM
Taylor: "Here is the music I was playing on Tuesday after class. It's from the game Final Fantasy IX, and was composed by Japanese composer Nobuo Eumatsu."

Search exercise

http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/journalex.htm

Here is the link to the search exercise from today's class.

Paper 2 Assignment available

The Precis Assignment and Paper 2 Assignment are now available. I'll be giving you a paper version in class tomorrow, and we'll be doing some MLA searching that should give you a head start on the Precis Assignment.

Optional reading: Defense of reading Moby-Dick at npr.org

You don't have to read this; I just added it in case you were interested. 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/17/141429619/why-read-moby-dick-a-passionate-defense-of-the-american-bible?ft=1&f=1032&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Also of possible interest: the NPR informal roundtable on reading Moby-Dick, in which one segment compares Ahab to Bill Paxton in Twister: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/06/18/127933161/-moby-dick-we-ve-come-to-the-en.  . A sample:
I have to say, I really thought that Ahab and the whale were going to realize that they loved each other all along.

Linda: And then they'd kiss at the end.

Marc: They SORT of did that.

Linda: They were bound together.

Marc: "With this rope I thee GRRRRRK!"