Class Notes for English at Ryerson University

Week three lecture Catfish documentary Week four readings She is Jt Leroy Laura Albert wrote as JT Leroy a male cross dressing prostitute whose mother pimped him at truck stops in West Virginia. He en...

Lecture 5 Wilde We can read any text thats fiction or nonfiction and define the writers life. The story seems to point to the falseness of the theory. It is a narrative that contains a theory and interp...

Week 10 Personalizing Disaster All of these people are telling stories but theyre not sure where the story is going because the story is still happening and is not over yet. Pepys Lived during the Great Fire of Lo...

Week 7 Army of Lovers The 3-part structure, childhood, adulthood, and death follows a chronological sequence. The author lets the people shes interviewed words, stand for themselves. Subjects flow from o...

Week 7 Symbol: Used in most works of art. Are often an object or an event that signifies something beyond itself. Can be universal or specific. Such as a cross. In OConnors story the symbol is the penny and the hat. Hat sy...

Week 9 Thesis Be clear Unpack thesis You can have a working thesis. Have direct quotations but not really long ones. You can include other critical research. Avoid colloquialisms. Avoid casual language and phrases. Avoid c...

Week 3 In seminar sessions. Short answer in response to poems weve read in class. Review and read poetry. Understand concepts. Answer everything. Book has a lot of stuff on poetry in the beginning of each section. The Ode ...

Week 6 Narrative structure The traditional parts of the story and the way in which they are ordered. These components are presented as a triangle: Freytags Pyramid. Rising action, climax, falling action, demount. This tria...

Week one Lit Across Borders My Papas Waltz Notes: My Papas Waltz is lyric poetry. Lyric poetry is considered by the Greeks to be an expression of a single singer. Associated with emotional expression. You get a single unif...

Week 5 Short story Short stories are brief and is an old form that has been adapted by writers over the centuries. We live in a world of prose and it is the most familiar form of expression. Po is often called the originat...

Week 4 Elegy Classical form. Originally signified any serious subjectmeditation on the part of the poet. Whether this th reflected death, love, war or any information really. Until the end of the 17 century it meant a love...

Week 10 Themes in Hamlet Political corruption Powergreed Class conflict Morality Love Deathmortality Revenge Chaste vs Debauchery Christianity Personal growthage Active vs passive Madness vs sanity Appearances vs actuality...

Week 8 Metafiction Piece of art within a piece of art. The narrator selfconsciously alludes to the fact that the work is a piece of fiction. Comes out of a selfconscious firstperson voice. Like the Yellow Wallpaper First p...

Short Stories and gender issues Living by herself wasnt a option for a women. Chopin and gilman tells stories about wo mens hidden lives: What does a home mean for this character: home is a prison, symbol of marriage and t...

nd 2 Week: Anton Chekhov an Upheaval: Smaller domestic event, 2. Narrative choice: life as it happens. We are in the middle of their life, without any introduction. Intreat, we are going with her and experience the event f...

TM permacharts Othello Just The FactsCharacters ILLIAM SHAKESPEAREHARACTER SKETCHES WC Born 1564; died 1616 ameDescription N OthelloProtagonist Professional soldier; servant to Venice Moor; Moslem Negro from North Africa M...

TM permacharts Death Of A Salesman Just the FactsSymbols ARTHUR MILLERMUSICTAPE RECORDER Born 1915 in Harlem, New York Epitomizes the mechanization of American society Music has major significance in the play Wrote many pl...

TM permacharts English Composition English Composition 2nd EDITION THE SENTENCE Sentencesform the basis for written language and composition A sentence is a group of words that forms a complete thought It is easier to expr...

TM permacharts English Grammar English Grammar 2nd EDITION PARTS OF SPEECHSENTENCE TYPES A sentenceis a group of words that can stand DJECTIVESONJUNCTIONS AC on its own as a completed thought; it begins Describe nouns and ...

TM permacharts English Verbs English Verbs 2nd EDITION PRESENT TENSEPHRASAL VERBS A phrasal verbis a two part verb IMPLE PRESENT S consisting of a verb and a particle Expresses daily habits or usual Expresses general factu...

TM permacharts Hamlet StructureCharacters AIN PLOTHARACTER SKETCHES MC Act IIntroduction Presentation of setting, main characters, and central ameDescriptionameDescription NN themes HamletPrince of Denmark, son of Queen Ge...

TM permacharts Julius Caesar StructureThemes AIN PLOTONOR LOYALTYRUTH JUSTICE MHT Act IIntroduction Presentation of setting, main characters, and central Brutus believes it is honorable to kill Caesar for loyalty to the ...

TM permacharts King Lear StructureThemes AIN PLOTEMOLITION OF ORDERED SYSTEMSPPEARANCE VS. REALITY MDA Act IIntroduction Presentation of the setting, main characters, and Without divine, human, and natural laws, nature is ...

TM permacharts Macbeth Just the FactsCharacters ILLIAM SHAKESPEAREHARACTER SKETCHES WC Born 1564; died 1616 ameDescriptionameDescription NN Playwright, actor, and poetMacbethThane of Glamis, later Thane of Cawdor, and even...

TM permacharts English as a Second Language English as a Second Language 2nd EDITION BASIC SENTENCE REQUIREMENTSSUBJECTVERB AGREEMENT All sentences must begin with a capital letter A verb must agree with its subject in per...