Week Eight Material

This week, you will want to read carefully the assigned readings over the poetry.

And look equally carefully over the Study Guide for the Final Exam. Make sure to look over the preceding link to prepare for both parts of the exam.

I also created a video for the final examination for the face-to-face class that applies for the most part to the on-line class though you will take both parts of the examination on line; the summer examination covers the identical material, so make sure to give the half-hour video your attention.  I will make a new video early of the final week of the term.

The only difference concerns the essay part of the examination: you will write an essay on either Unwind or American Born Chinese.

As the examination description notes, you can take Part One and Part Two beginning Tuesday, May 2; you have until midnight Friday, May 5, to complete both parts of the examination.


The final examination will follow the identical format of the midterm. And

you might want to look over some very good responses from both parts of that midterm.


This week, you will find here an introductory video and another slide-show video for American Born Chinese; both will help you prepare for the final examination. In addition, watch the two videos about the poetry readings assigned, for the examination will contain prompts related to the material covered in the videos.

Take your quiz right away--you do not have to study for this week's quiz.

This week, you have two videos about the Poetry assigned for your enjoyment and edification; each of the two videos is approximately thirty minutes long an will help you on the exam and with any Book Analysis Report you might choose to write about Children's Poetry.

To underscore the fact that Nonsense Poetry must make sense, read this article about Edward Lear, the master of the limerick and author of "The Owl and the Pussy Cat."

And I address in the video those poems, poets, and ideas about poetry for children that you might find of interest for both the discussion threads and the prompts that could appear on Part One of the Final Exam.


POETRY DISCUSSION PART ONE










POETRY DISCUSSION PART TWO







This slide-show video covers something Scott McCloud calls "closure," an important concept about the dynamics of "the invisible art" of sequential art. Read about closure on line and some of McCloud's other thoughts gathered in his excellent "comic," Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.

In this short video, McCloud talks about Understanding Comics.


The video also covers the second half of American Born Chinese.