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Literary close readings

10 Fevereiro 2023, 11:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins


Close readings of the opening chapters of:


The Talented Mr. Ripley
To Kill a Mocking Bird. 

Literary close reading

8 Fevereiro 2023, 17:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins


Students performed and discussed their close readings of Kate Chopin's short story "Ripe Figs" and the opening three paragraphs of William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily".


Students must read the first chapter of Paticia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley for next class. 

Literary close reading exercises

8 Fevereiro 2023, 11:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins


Students performed and discussed their close readings of Kate Chopin's short story "Ripe Figs" and the opening three paragraphs of William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily".


Students must read the first chapter of Paticia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley for next class. 

An introduction to literary close reading

3 Fevereiro 2023, 17:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins


Students had read Jessica Johnson's short story "A Band Apart" and analyzed it:


1) in terms of reader response 
Underline the things that stand out to you.
Are there unusual/unexpected words? Phrases?
Write your response to the story in 3 minutes.
2) Technically they had to identify: 
•Who is telling the story?
•What is the setting like?
•How is this mood introduced?
Does the mood change as the story is being told?
When?
Are other voices introduced?
How is this achieved?

We discussed their answers and then moved on to the analysis of W.B. Yeats's short poem ""The Balloon of the Mind". 

They did a textual analysis of this text in groups and then we had a class discussion of their interpretations of the poem. 

We then looked at the University of Toronto's "Close reading: How to Perfrom a Literary Analysis (p 24-25 manual) and discussed how using the tools presented here one could interpret a literary text. 

Students were instructed to use these tools to perform a literary close reading on Kate Chopin's short story "Ripe Figs" p 26 of the manual for discussion in the next class. 

An introduction to literary close reading

3 Fevereiro 2023, 11:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins


Students had read Jessica Johnson's short story "A Band Apart" and analyzed it:


1) in terms of reader response 
•Underline the things that stand out to you.
•Are there unusual/unexpected words? Phrases?
•Write your response to the story in 3 minutes.
2) Technically they had to identify: 
•Who is telling the story?
•What is the setting like?
•How is this mood introduced?
Does the mood change as the story is being told?
When?
Are other voices introduced?
How is this achieved?

We discussed their answers and then moved on to the analysis of W.B. Yeats's short poem ""The Balloon of the Mind". 

They did a textual analysis of this text in groups and then we had a class discussion of their interpretations of the poem. 

We then looked at the University of Toronto's "Close reading: How to Perfrom a Literary Analysis (p 24-25 manual) and discussed how using the tools presented here one could interpret a literary text. 

Students were instructed to use these tools to perform a literary close reading on Kate Chopin's short story "Ripe Figs" p 26 of the manual for discussion in the next class.