DISCUSSION POSTs (4 in total)

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DISCUSSION FORUMS (4 in total)

-Week 6 Forum 11: Problem Solving

DISCUSSION TOPICS

All semester, we’ve been going beneath the surface of events, actions, thoughts, speeches and ideas to discover meaning in the imaginative texts. We’ve made connections and comparisons. We’ve found allusions, metaphors, and symbols. We’ve looked at cultural myths about gender, money, class, race and beauty. We’ve delved into the feelings and secrets of characters. We’ve looked at their traumas. We’ve applauded their successes and empathized with their failures or shortcomings. We’ve felt bored and enthused. The list goes on. In past classes, students have found themselves with a lot of “What if” questions. For this week’s forum, let’s speculate on a couple of what ifs.

Let’s start by once again examining and charting the methods characters engage in problem-solving their obstacles and conflicts and their effects. Choose a character with a problem to solve. Examine and state all of methods and effects the character engages in. Put these into a narrative or a list. Either one is okay. Next, speculate on why the character chose those methods. Finally, examine yourself to find out what kind of advice you’d give the character based on which methods you think might work better and why. Speculate on the effects.

Possible Problems

Fight Club

The Bluest Eye

The Life Before Us

Peer Interaction

It’s up to you how to respond. Be critical and creative.

Forum Points

Policies And Procedures

MODULE 5: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk -Weels 6-8

-Week 8 Forum 15: Voltaire, Candide, and the Elements – Module 5 Candide 1

Before responding to this forum topic, access the self-study questions with an emphasis on the elements.

Discussion Topic

Work on all of the questions on your own. When you are finished, choose 2-3 of your responses to the study questions that you got the most from in contributing to your understanding of the story through one or more of the elements in the chapter.

Following your answer for each one, explain how your understanding of the elements in the passage enriched your understanding of the story. Explain in detail the role the element(s) play in the passage.

If you do not name the elements, I won’t be able to give you more than 1/2 credit

Peer Interaction

Come up with one question involving an element being discussed. Give two reasons why you are asking the question.

In addition, In critiquing other students, evaluate how well they discuss the element as an element and why. You might consider whether you discuss it the same way. Or you may continue the conversation where the entry leaves off.

Peer Interaction

Characteristics of a Summary

Possible Topics for your Web Search

Points at the Forums

Literary Terms

Weekly Overview, Reading & Writing Assignments

-Week 8: Forum 16: The Literary Lens – Module 5 Candide 1

Discussion Topic

Read my Lecture Notes on literary lenses.

Review: Lenses can not only be fun to use, but they can also give us the chance to narrow and frame our ideas, so we’re not overwhelmed by all those scenes, dialogues, and exposition that make up a novel. For example, if we want to apply the Gender lens, we would then focus on how gender roles, conventions and belief systems (or myths) operate in the story. If we want to apply the Marxist lens, we would then focus on the role economics plays in the novel.

Explore the lenses. Apply the Moral/Ethical lens and one other lens to the novel Candide. Suggestions for second lens: 1. Gender, 2. Economic Determinist /Marxist, 3. Historical. 4 Structuralist for this forum. To apply the Ethical lens, you should approach your exploration through ethical reasoning, thus, use the ethical reasoning text. Be sure to refer to the terms presented in the ethical reasoning text, and quote from it.

Speculate on how you might use each lens differently in interpreting something the exact same scene(s), character motives or conflicts in the novel and why. It’s best to focus on the elements (character, setting, plot, theme, etc.).

Based on the definition and examples, you should have an idea on how you might use the lens. You might begin with something such as

If I were to apply the Deconstructionist lens, I would probably look at the ambiguity of the role Cunegonde plays in Candide’s life and attempt to prove that the pair’s circumstance and proximity prevent the reader from knowing whether they truly love each other. I would start by analyzing scenes in chapters in which they come together and and separate, and how that furthers the ambiguity and suggests the ambiguity and contradictions of their romantic bond. I’d look at four different scenes, in particular, to prove my assertion: 1. The scene in which… 2. The scene in chapter ? in which… and so on.

I’d summarize the scenes and in my argument that I plan to argue show the ambiguity and contradictions. You need not go beyond short summaries of the scenes.

Peer Interaction:

How well do you think your peer discusses the lens? Give two reasons why. Offer one point on how you might use the lens differently. Explain why.

Points at the Forums Literary Terms

Weekly Overview, Reading & Writing Assignments (includes policies page)

-Week 8: Forum 17: Candide and Cross Culture Curriculum – Module 5 Candide 1

Discussion Topic

The novel Candide could easily be used in other classes for class discussion. Think of a class you took or are taking. How could the novel be used to enhance or add to the conversation during class discussion? For example, it could be a good fit into a specific philosophy class, a specific history class, a specific women’s studies class, a specific political science class, or a specific psychology class. If you can’t think of class you’re taking, imagine a class it might be a good fit for.

Peer Responses: Participation here is required. It’s up to you, however, how you respond. But try to give conversational feedback. Perhaps imagine you are having a cup of coffee or tea together and you have something to say about the entry.

Lecture Notes: Literary Lenses and Candide (for your viewing only)

MLA Conventions

Policies And Procedures

MODULE 6: RESOURCES

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