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DISCUSSION #5 Comparative Analysis
(including Nervous Conditions)
Online Hum 211 Discussion Forum Assignment
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when you are ready to webpost your Discussion #5 Comparative Analysis report
and/or Response/replies:
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Go to HUM 211 COURSE PLAN for
Discussion #5 deadlines:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/courseplan.htm
Directions & Topics for
Discussion #5 Comparative Analysis report
Class
Preparation & Participation Assignment - 20 points possible.
Revised Deadline for Webposting your Report: Saturday,
March 9, by midnight
Note: You may complete this assignment individually, or work collaboratively with another Hum 211 student. Be sure to complete both Tasks A & B.
Task A: Identify and analyze a character, theme, key event, conflict, or aspect of Shona culture in Nervous Conditions that you consider important to understanding the novel. (Tip: use the Nervous Conditions online Study Guide as a resource to help you choose a topic and/or locate specific passages.) In writing your Task A report, be sure to:
Cite and interpret specific examples from Nervous Conditions to illustrate and support your main points (see Cite Your Sources for models); and . . .
Explain why you consider your selected character, theme, event, or conflict important, and/or what it contributes to the overall meaning or impact of the novel.
Task B: Compare/Contrast Nervous Conditions to another African "text" that we've studied this term: select at least two similarities and/or differences that seem significant in helping us better understand African cultures, oral traditions, literatures, and/or film (e.g. common trends, diversity, change or development over time). In writing your Task B report, be sure to:
Illustrate the differences and/or similarities that you identify by citing and
interpreting specific supporting examples from Nervous Conditions and
the other Hum 211 course "text"; and . . .
Explain why you consider the identified differences and/or
similarities to be significant to our understanding of African cultures, oral traditions, literatures, and/or film.
Go to DISCUSSION #5
FORUM
when you are ready to webpost your Discussion #5 Comparative Analysis report:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc5_frm.htm
Discussion #5 Response Directions
Class
Preparation & Participation Assignment - 5 points possible.
Revised Deadline for Webposting your
Response/replies: Monday, March 11, by
midnight
Read all the webposted Discussion #5 Reports after the posting deadline (Sat., March 9). Choose 2 or 3 Reports that interest you as the stimuli for your Discussion #5 Response. Or you may webpost Replies to several student Reports that interest you.
What should you write in your Response? First of all, there are no "right" or "wrong" responses. There are only your honest and thoughtful responses--personal and/or analytical--to others' Reports and topics, and what they and you have made of HUM 211 learning materials experiences so far. In your "Response," I invite you to offer open-ended, earnest inquiries and productive reactions to other students' Reports, or specific points and questions raised in two or more Reports that elicit strong responses from you, that provoke your curiosity and interest, and/or that in some (other) way provoke your comment and further discussion.
Whatever topics you address and reactions you describe in your Response/Replies, I would like you to try to specify what you are reacting to, and explain how and/or why you are reacting as you are.
In seeking what to respond to as you read other students' Reports, interpretations, perspectives and opinions, you may wish to look for those that . .
stimulate your curiosity
provoke questions that you'd like to discuss, investigate, research further;
suggest a means to understand yourself and/or others in a deeper, broader, and/or different way;
evoke a strong emotional reaction in you--positive or negative or other?;
surprise or shock you--and prompt you to question why;
make you think harder and deeper, or broader and/or in new and different ways than
you are used to;
suggest connections or similarities to your own or others' personal experiences, and/or
subjects and "texts" that you've studied in other contexts;
constitute a telling cross-cultural encounter with differences that seem strange, unusual, provocative or ...?
tempt you to judge--perhaps prematurely?--or activate preconceptions and stereotypes;
stimulate an imaginative experience of "travel" or understanding in a different cultural "contact zone";
trigger a valuable insight or theory worth sharing with others.
Go to DISCUSSION #5
FORUM
when you are ready to webpost your Discussion #5 Response/Replies:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc5_frm.htm
See HUM 211 COURSE PLAN for Discussion #5 deadlines:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/courseplan.htmQuestions or Problems? Please contact Cora:
cagatucci@cocc.edu
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