Sunday, January 4, 2009

Welcome

Here is the blog I was talking about. Please post a comment below so I can make sure it's working. It was nice meeting all of you today!

Other Reminders:

-Read Midsummer Night's Dream Acts I-II
-Read Make a Plate syllabus and bring in any questions
-Ask a question to the class listserv
-Take the EEE quiz on Online Information Literacy

Footnote: I mentioned in class on Monday that Shakespeare's audience generally knew the plot of his plays before even seeing them. (For instance, Julius Caesar is going to get assassinated. He just is. He is not going to, you know, form a dance crew with Marc Antony and persuade Brutus and Cassius that anyone with such outstanding choreography deserves to be emperor.) But check out pp. 89-91 of the Signet edition of MND that most of you bought at the bookstore. Apparently, this is one of a small number of Shakespeare's plays that do have semi-original plots, although it is cobbled together out of bits and pieces of other plays and stories. Interesting, but does it invalidate my argument that those who have read the play before should do so again? Uh, no.
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20 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2009 at 9:24 PM

    Well.. I hope I'm doing this correctly..
    And I was also wondering if your notes/thoughts and such will be up on the blog site or elsewhere

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2009 at 9:48 PM

    I'm still a little confused as to how listserv works. When we want to ask a question--one that someone might know the answer to--, is that e-mail sent to the whole class as well?

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  3. AaronJanuary 5, 2009 at 10:45 PM

    Fancyhamster... if you want to ask a question that only I would know the answer to, email awinter@uci.edu... if you want to ask a question that other students might know the answer to, email plate-w09@classes.uci.edu

    Yen... yes, for instance you will see some notes about Plato vs. Aristotle on art because I told you not to take notes this morning so as to concentrate better on making your plate

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  4. Nicholas TanotoJanuary 5, 2009 at 10:46 PM

    testing ^_^

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  5. AnkitaJanuary 6, 2009 at 9:09 AM

    Well, this already answered the questions that I had....so this works!!!!

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    Oops, I forgot to change my display name from fancyhamster to this when I commented earlier.
    Thank you.

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  7. MarthaJanuary 6, 2009 at 4:00 PM

    I signed up

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  8. UnknownJanuary 6, 2009 at 6:53 PM

    No questions here either. Just wanted to make sure this works for me too.

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  9. UnknownJanuary 6, 2009 at 6:59 PM

    testing to see if this works...

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM

    I don't know if I'm doing this right...

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  11. AidinJanuary 6, 2009 at 8:47 PM

    Chicken tastes good

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  12. AaronJanuary 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM

    I just made chicken for dinner. Aidin wins the psychic blog post award.

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  13. LOLorenaJanuary 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM

    hello (:

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  14. sarahdevineJanuary 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM

    Just makin sure it works.

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  15. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM

    Hi! =D

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  16. LawrenceJanuary 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM

    making sure it is working

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  17. Grant RamosJanuary 7, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    Seems like it's working to me.

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  18. Connie BetzJanuary 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM

    YO!

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  19. UnknownJanuary 8, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    Hi everybody! Does anyone know where we are supposed to turn in our study guide answer? Is it supposed to be sent via Listserv? And just to make sure, we only needed to answer one question right?

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  20. Marko AngeloJanuary 8, 2009 at 6:32 PM

    testing...

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