Tag: interpretation

Class, Wed, 10/02

How do you find evidence for one interpretation rather than another?

  • The Cases of Frank, Rita, Anaya, and Nathan

A Day at the Beach

From Precious, directed by Lee Daniels, 2009, with Gabourey Sidibe and Paula Patton

Please read pp. 51–55 of Push. What does this scene from Precious, Lee Daniels’s 2009, film adaptation of Push, add to what’s on the page? What does it fail to get at?

To Do

  1. Fri, 10/04, class: I’d like to talk about the un-numbered pages at the end of Sapphire’s novel, Life Stories: Our Class Book. What do these writings add to your knowledge of what Precious, and her classmates, have learned?
  2. Mon, 10/07, class: Submit X3.
  3. AND . . .
Tara Westover will speak at Mitchell Hall on Tuesday, 11/12, at 5:30 pm. Please plan to attend.

Class, Mon, 9/30

Voice and Clarity

Jane Rozenweig, “The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write“, New York Times, 9/27/2019

From Restatement to Interpretation

“Simple, Uncomplicated” vs. “Concealed Meaning”
  • Zubia and Amita respond to Rita, pp. 68–70, and Blake’s “The Blossom”
What’s in a Name?
  • Anaya and Nathan respond to Rita, pp. 76–77

To Do

  1. Wed, 10/02, class: Discuss Push, pp. 1–140
  2. Fri, 10/04. class: Discuss all of Push.
  3. Mon, 10/07, class: Submit X3.
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