welcome back to class

“Being a professor is the easiest thing in the world--you just have to act like you know all the answers. Being a

student is much harder because you not only have to wring the answers from the cryptic professor, but you also

have to make sense of them.”--John Maeda

thinking time

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lecture discussion projects visual/ppts writing notes

plus: notes on board, fish bowl, pair share and stories

A. E. Housman on the causes of obscurity in poetry:

When the meaning of a poem is obscure, it is due to one of three causes. Either the author through lack of skil l has fai led to express his meaning; or he has concealed it intentionally; or he has no meaning either to conceal or express. In none of these cases does he l ike to be asked about it . In the f irst case it makes him feel humiliated; in the second it makes him feel embarrassed; in the third it makes him feel found out. The real meaning of a poem is what it means to the reader.

When I was One and Twenty--A.E. Houseman

When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,

'Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubiesBut keep your fancy free.'But I was one-and-twenty,

No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twenty

I heard him say again,'The heart out of the bosom

Was never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.'And I am two-and-twenty,And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

metonym: a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated.

For example, Washington is a metonym for the federal government of the U.S.

Metonymy: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for

business executive, or the track for horse racing.

more recently, metonymy has received some critical

attention...

Juno’s “pseudo-witty dialogue” relies on

metonymy

explain metonymy in three sentences to your eight year old

nephew

third quarterRP + JC

bring Julius Caesar on Thursday

generating paper topics:

an arguable question

examples:ideal size for a church?

what makes a great con artist?how has the use of ____ word changed?

start broad then narrow:

let’s try to find some decent questions:wikipedia random article

aldaily.com

For Thursday:a list of 5 possible

research paper questions