Fairy Tales

How are everyone’s essays going? Is anyone planning on rewriting an essay? What are you going to change if you do? I’m not sure yet if I’ll have time, I’m going in to talk to Dara tomorrow I think. If I do a rewrite, it will probably mostly be structural changes and some content stuff. 

Is anyone else looking at this in their review? The stories in The Bloody Chamber turn traditional gender roles or expectations upside down and many feature strong female protagonists. I’m not sure if my essay would still be a “review” if I focused solely on this issue (actually what I’m writing about is the undermining of [...]

There’s an important typo in the previous email: final portfolios are due not on Friday, Dec. 15th (which doesn’t exist) but Friday, Dec. 14th.
Your portfolio should include the following, in a folder or large envelope:

your draft and revision of each essay (preferably the commented-upon copies), including your revision of Essay #4;
an end-of-term reflection (see below); [...]

I know the new essay isn’t due until Friday, but I’m starting it now and having some problems. I think calling it a review is making me hesitate a little bit. I don’t know what it really means to write a review. My idea is fine, but does the language have to be different? I [...]

First off, another “thank you” to all of today’s presenters — particularly for their patience with the various (ahem) logistical difficulties.   I’ve been promised that the laptop and the lunches will arrive before 11 without fail 0n Thursday, so we’ll see.
One other lesson: bring your PowerPoint presentation on a flash drive so that you’re ready [...]

I think researching was the hardest part of the research essay. I could not really choose a thesis until I had research, but having a specific thesis or an idea about what I wanted to do would have helped with narrowing down my research. I guess thought that is just part of research. We are [...]

I’m curious what everyone ended up picking as the topic for their review.  I’m going to write about “The Bloody Chamber” since it seemed like one of the more substantiative pieces, and I also thought it would be interesting to compare it with “Bluebeard.”  It seemed hard to write the pre-Draft for this because there [...]

Tuesday, Dec. 4

Tobie
Meela
Cindy
Bryan
Jenny S.
Ben
Hannah

Thursday, Dec. 6

Jessica
Dan
Winnie
Jenn
Jenny L.
Bre
Marcia

So we didn’t talk about all the stories in class on Tuesday, but I found that “The Snow Child” was so strange. At first you think that he wants a daughter, but in reality he is only seeking someone to whom he would be attracted physically. Therefore, the ending was very strange, since it seemed [...]

Welcome back, everyone!
In class tomorrow, we’ll discuss the stories in The Bloody Chamber, so be sure to have read all of them.  In addition, you should have a revised draft of your essay ready to exchange with your writing group by 5:00 tomorrow.  I’ve posted the writing groups below and on the blog: exchange drafts [...]