CONTENTS

IntroductionEssaysWritingOutlinesDocumentationMarking

Literary Analysis: Six CategoriesHamletQuiet American & Year of Living Dangerously

Academic Writing: Rhetorical Analysis∙ Evaluation (in progress)

Literary Analysis

Six Categories∙overlapping categories∙voice∙secular discourse∙ambiguity

1: Space & Setting∙Shakespeare, Jia Dao, etc.∙Whitman essay∙“The Falling Girl”

2: Time∙Shelley, Tagore, etc. — Slaughterhouse-FiveTimelinesSci & Fi

3: CharacterStates of Mind: comparative essays∙Insanity: “The Tell-Tale Heart”

4: Relationship∙Parker, Golden Lotus, etc.∙Moulin Rouge!Romance

5: Theme“Paint it Black” essay∙Sonnet 116 essays∙The Mermaid (advanced essay)

6: Style∙image, metaphor, etc.∙Pratt, Poe, & Dylan∙A-NO-ZThe EpicIrony

Six Categories in Black Robe (1985 novel)∙Context

The Rose & Skull: Love & Death in Literature

Introduction

🔹 Hamlet ∙in light of romance (Moulin Rouge! & Friends), meaning & death (“Prufrock”), & manipulation (The Stronger & “Roman Fever”)∙BackgroundVideo 1RomancePassages 1∙student responses 1A1BV2 Pass. 2∙responses 2A2B2CV3 Pass. 34∙responses 3A3B3CV4 responses 4A4B4CV5 Pass. 5

Lovers in a Dangerous TimeColonialism & the Cold War

🔹 The Quiet AmericanContextInterview & ArticleSample EssayVideo 1: QA & Year; Fowler as Protagonist∙student responses 1A1B1CV 2: “I’m Not Involved”∙responses 2A2B2C

🔹 The Year of Living DangerouslyContextSukarno’s YearEssay & ArticleA Tricky NarrativeHinduismVideo 3: Context & Chapter 1∙responses 3A3B3CV4: Betjaks & Puppets - responses 3D3EV5: Insight & Empathy

— Comparative essays on QA & YearBetrayal & Good IntentionsSex Trade & Orientalism

Academic Writing

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

16 Rhetorical Strategies∙3 Aims & 16 strategies∙Definition of feminism

Video 1 & 2∙metaphor in Friends∙sight & sound in Moulin Rouge!∙opening credits of Lord of War∙essay on opening credits of Mad Men

Video 3∙Twain & Gore∙ Twain & Gore (texts & exercises)∙Student responses to a trailer, credits, & final scene∙responses to an opening scene

Scene from Gandhi (analysis)∙“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”Responses to Carr & 16 strategies∙Responses to Carr & McLuhan∙Creative responses on metaphor

Video 5 & 6“The Tell-Tale Heart” (Poe)∙“The Last Channel” (Calvino)

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EVALUATION (in progress)

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Music

Description∙Reason or Rhyme∙Historical Analysis∙Linkin Park∙Non-formal Description∙Sgt. Pepper’s∙Literary Descriptions∙Reviews∙Montage∙Beyoncé∙The Saxophone∙Terms: A-L & M-Z

Graphics

Boardwork∙Ophelia∙Year of Living Dangerously∙“116” & “Black Star”∙Bulgakov∙Eagles∙Pink Floyd∙“Paint It Black”∙“Black”∙“Nymph’s Reply”∙“Girl from Ermita”∙“Anthem for Doomed Youth”∙“Dulce”∙“Sonnet 130”∙ “Bright Star”∙Byron & Manson

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