Syllabus for Fall 2012 ENG 2150 course with the theme “Authenticity & Astonishment.”
Prof. Lubin’s lesson plan for “Seeing” from Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, focusing on the emerging themes in the chapter. Students are asked to analyze how Dillard cogitates on the phenomenon of sight in both the literal and abstract sense of the word, the varieties of sight she talks about, and how do some of those varieties impair our vision while others expand it.
This worksheet aims to help students along their drafting process–to move from reading and thinking through a paper assignment, to developing the road an essay might choose to take.
Adaptable for any course, this lexicon assignment uses the group editing capabilities of a wiki in order to keep a semester long record of words we investigate together in the classroom.
Defining Happiness: A low stakes response paper assignment that asks students to examine definitions of “happiness” both contemporary and classic and then craft their own.
The theme of this course is “Authority.” In what ways do we assert our authority with family members, friends, teachers, bosses, coworkers, and strangers, or fail to, in our daily lives? In what ways have we been affected by authority—our own and that of others? Is authority a positive, negative, or neutral force? How does authority affect our lives on a global scale? To what extent is the course of history determined by those with the most authority? Is authority an end in itself for those with it or a means of reaching an end? What are some ways of gaining authority? Is writing an assertion of authority? What is the word “author” doing in the word “authority?” Why does an essay written in a clear, meditative, and factual voice assert authority? In what ways can playing with the form of our essays (writing personal narratives, opinion pieces, research papers, etc.) assert our authority, or detract from it?