September 2012
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Illustrating Huck →
Images from the original ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain.
May 2012
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Language: Color Coded by Origin →
Any of you interested in etymology might be interested in this article and its purpose.
Here is an excerpt:
This is a surprisingly complex Monty Python quote where the colors represent Old English (pink), Middle English (red), Anglo-French (orange), Old French (light orange), Middle French (pale orange), and Classical and Medieval Latin (both yellow). I suspect that both the complexity and...
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#worstbookever →
coolkidsbookclub:
This is so sad, but vaguely funny. VAGUELY.
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April 2012
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Huffington Post says READ TAO LIN →
TODAY, the Huffington Post posted an article about Tao Lin, which is highly appropriate since my lit students are finishing SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL tomorrow. Maybe someday I’ll learn to spell “apparel” without having to try four times.
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Two Extra AEG Review Sessions
Hello AEG students. Here are the two days/times when I was able to book rooms for us to have extra help sessions:
WEDNESDAY 4/25 Bunce Hall 3rd Floor Room 332 // 10:50-12:15
THURSDAY 4/26 Library 2nd Floor Room 229 // 12:05-1:30
I apologize if any of you cannot make either of the above sessions. Please contact me via email with what you need help with so that I can accommodate you that way...
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Cornell Researchers on Understanding Memorable... →
This is a very interesting article for my grammar class or anyone interested in language on “what makes a movie quote memorable”. Cornell researchers have broken it down, language-wise, comparing memorable movie quotes over the years.
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Final Exam Review – Spring 2012
I. Using the sentence patterns listed below, identify the pattern number of each sentence. Then diagram each sentence.
1. s - be – adv 6. s – itv
2. s – be – pa 7. s – tv – do
3. s – be – pn 8. s – tv – io – do
4. s – lv – pa 9. s – tv – do – adj
5. s – lv – pn 10. s – tv – do – n
1. ___ The glass is on the...
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Atlantic article: The Neverending Campaign to Ban... →
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EL: Final Paper Guidelines
Final Essay
Final Essay (4-6 pages)
—Your final essay must discuss a literary aspect (or aspects) of at least one work from our syllabus. If you choose to write about more than one text, then they should be linked through a single subject. The paper should look at the historical and geographical context of the work and its cultural effects. It must also evaluate the text of the work from...
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AEG ANNOUNCEMENT: Grammar Verbals Extra Help
Complete information for the Extra Help sessions on verbals can be found below:
Wed. 4/4 10:50-12:05 Bunce English Dept. Seminar Room 339 (3rd floor)
Thu. 4/5 12:15-1:20 Library Room 229 (2nd floor)
*I have moved the first session from next week to this week so that it will be before your exam.* *Please be sure that you are also studying on your own, seeking out help from Savitz Hall,...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Grammar Clauses Tutoring Monday 4/2
Hello AEG,
The grammar tutoring for clauses WILL MOST LIKELY BE IN THE SEMINAR ROOM ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF THE BUNCE BUILDING. This will take place from 10:50-12:05 tomorrow, 4/2/2012. If we cannot use that room, we will still meet there. I foresee us being able to use it.
Thanks for your patience.
-prsw
EDIT: The practice WILL be held in room 332 in the Bunce building. See you there.
March 2012
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AEG REVIEW for Exam #3
American English Grammar REVIEW FOR EXAM #3 Spring 2012
I. Punctuate each sentence, if necessary, and then diagram it on notebook paper.
A group of students wanted to review their notes although the test had already started.
If the dog tied to the tree is still there I will give him a treat and he will probably wag his tail.
The teacher selected Kat who was sitting next to me as the class...
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Adrienne Rich "Tonight No Poetry Will Serve" →
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich
Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon's eyelid
later spread
sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair
asleep but not oblivious
of the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere
Tonight I think
no poetry
will serve
Syntax of rendition:
verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action
verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is...
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Article on Jezebel.com about The Hunger Games and... →
When we read Huck Finn, we will be talking a lot about racism. This article clearly shows very sad instances of racism currently still alive in America today, as well as people’s lack of reading comprehension skills. I think it’s an appropriate read for those of you in our Lit class who have read the Hunger Games books/seen the first movie.
“1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to...”
– After David Ogilvy’s now-infamous 10 tips on writing and Henry Miller’s 11 commandments of writing, here comes a list of rules for writers from George Orwell circa 1946. (via explore-blog)
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NYTIMES articles on Young Women as Trendsetters in... →
This link above is to an article that locates young women as vocal trendsetters. Patterns in language are learned and repeated, and who would have thought that young women set these trends off more frequently than any other social age group in the English-speaking world? This article will be of interest to anyone interested in language.
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WHOM HUMOR →
This link takes you to a site that has a few quotes analyzing “whom humor”. Who would have though a pronoun had its own genre of humor?
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Who v. Whom on THE OFFICE
Below is a funny chat about WHO v. WHOM from the Office. This very brief article on the conversation analyzes who is right and who is wrong in the conversation. Do you know WITHOUT the article? Either way, it’s worth a glance from any curious grammar student/lover of the Office.
Ryan: You know what I really want? What I really want is for you to know (the computer system) so you can...
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February 2012
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AEG Review for EXAM #2
PRACTICE FOR EXAM #2 Cumulative, though focused on CHAPTERS 4-7 in your book
I. Write the pattern number of the following sentences and then diagram each.
1. ___ An apple or an orange is a good breakfast.
2. ____When does your brother leave for his vacation in Rome?
3. ____ Imagine a sunrise on a beach with waves and white sand
4. ____ Kacie, my niece, bosses...
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poem "present & preterit" →
I had a poem up 2/23/2012 at Everyday Genius— there are some grammar references in it, which is relevant to AEG, and it’s a poem, which is relevant to Exp. Lit. Check it out if you’re interested.
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EXP LIT: what to listen to
Links are on the name of each song as well as on the word “lyrics” and will lead you to a video & also a lyrics listing. Listen carefully, as we will most likely not get a chance to listen to everything during class, yet we will still be discussing each song and its relationship to poetry.
Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (1970) lyrics
Saul...
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( SPACE ) Adam Thomas: Art →
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January 2012
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AEG Review for Exam #1
REVIEW Spring 2012
For each sentence, indicate the number of the sentence pattern and diagram the sentence. Note that your test will be similar to this review in content, though slightly longer.
s – be – adv 6. s - itv
s – be – pa 7. s – tv - do
s – be – pn 8. s – tv – io - do
s – lv – pa 9. s – tv –...
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Amazon for Shoplifting from American & Apparel →
There are 14 used and 22 new available from outsourced sellers; Amazon itself has 20 copies available. That’s more than enough for those of you that couldn’t get your hands on it to get a copy. Looks like the cheapest used is $7.12
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POETRY PROJECT HANDOUT for Exp. Lit.
Poetry Paper/Project Options
DUE: Thursday, February 9th, 2012
See Syllabus for your professor’s late policy.
If you have any questions about any of the three options, please be sure to ask your professor before or after class either in-person or via email. Please do not wait until the last minute to ask questions, but determine which option you will choose and ask any questions as soon as...
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"Let's hear it for the Oxford Comma" →
AEG: We won’t touch on the Oxford Comma until chapter 12, but it’s a “hot topic” right now amongst grammarians… and Roger Ebert, apparently. I am not a fan, but I have no immortal justification. I just don’t like it. But I see why people do.
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December 2011
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UNBORN WHISKEY: What is being billed as a... →
heheheheheheheeheheheehehe:
Hey, this is Tao Lin. I haven’t “congratulated” anyone (re “It is in this peculiar…” quote below) for honesty and I haven’t said anything to anyone about the misuse of “laid” until I read about it on blogs like yours. The sentence you typed about me that I quoted below isn’t true. I don’t know where you got it from. Feel like you probably didn’t read the story, then...
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NYU's Tao Lin is ~82% "USFI" (Unfit for Social... →
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Apostrophe Abuse! →
I talked about how the apostrophe is the most hilariously misused mark of punctuation today in my grammar class. Here is one blog of its various misuses.
November 2011
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Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation.
byEric K. Auld,
from mcsweeneys.net
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1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
3. A question mark walks into a bar?
4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.
5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.
6. The bar was walked into by the...
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Rubric
The Superior Paper (A/A-)
Thesis: Easily identifiable, plausible, novel, sophisticated, insightful, crystal clear. Connects well with paper title.
Structure: Evident, understandable, appropriate for thesis. Excellent transitions from point to point. Paragraphs support solid topic sentences.
Use of evidence: Primary source information used to buttress every point with at least one...
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Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi →
Read this powerful letter from a UC Davis professor demanding the immediate resignation of Chancellor Katehi for her role in the police brutality against peaceful students.
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Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology →
