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Welcome, students of mine! Welcome to Advanced English 1... This is Roosevelt, my faithful and salmon-loving bear. He has an interesting take on life, and that's one thing I hope you will have, too. |
* Attend class, be awake, participate, and have fun.
* Write weekly in your reaction journal (thus, you will need a B5-size notebook).
* Review one website related to one of our units.
* For our final exam, you and a partner need to send me a polite e-mail and request a time to meet.
Alice saw a white rabbit and followed it...
What happened next?
The rabbit dropped into the river. Alice tried to help the
rabbit, but she needed help, too. The rabbit kept on going forward. Alice was
helped by a turtle, and then she and the turtle chased the rabbit.
However, Alice lost consciousness. She was in a mysterious world when her consciousness returned.
gWho am I? Well, I must be Alice,h she said. She looked over and know the place by sight. Alice skid time for 8 years ago.
The white rabbit kept by Alice for 8 years. His name was Elwood.
Elwood loved Alice, and he hoped, gPlease God...I want to be a person. And I want to union with Alice!h
Elwood kept hope. Then, God said, "I will to grant the wish to you, but there is one requirement.h
A requirement...it was a severe ordeal.
Elwood suddenly appeared, and Alice was confused. "Are you Elwood???"
Elwood said, "Yes, I am. "
Alice held Elwood in her arms. Then, the rabbit turned into a man. Elwood finally became a beautiful young person.
gI love you! To tell you my desire, I became a rabbit,h he said.
gI love you too, Elwood!h Alice replied.
They were very happy together.
Alice pursued the rabbit, and they went into the tunnel. However, the tunnel had a time and space warp! Alice was in Kyoto when she noticed. Moreover, she lost sight of the rabbit. She was alone... She was upset and she didn't know what to do, but she saw a wonderful temple. Then it was Kinkakuji, the Golden Pavilion. It color was gold and very beautiful. Alice was impressed, but she didn't know what it was. She thought, gIs this a castle? If this is a castle, I want to live in it.h Her idea was so daring. By the way, she had forgotten about the rabbit...Her eyes brightened, but the castle was surrounded by a lake. She could not find the entrance. How poor she was!!
Without the rabbit, she had return to her original world. Alice woke up and she thought, gUm...I had a strange dream...h
The white rabbit met his friend, a black rabbit, in front of a postal mailbox.
The black rabbit said to the white rabbit, gCalm down! Calm down! I think wefll be late already, so shall we go to a café?h
The black rabbit momentarily thought about it and then said, gWellc OK! Letfs go to a café!h
The white rabbit suddenly thought of a good idea. gI know the best café near the castle! Why donft you go there? We can go there at once!h
gOh, thatfs very good! Letfs go!h the black rabbit said.
A bit later c
They entered the best café, and the queen was there!
Two rabbits were very scared, gOh my God!!!h However, the queen didnft notice them.
They left the best café, and they were confused. gWhat shall we do? Ifm hungry, but Ifm confused now!h the white rabbit said.
gI want to eat a cake Mr. Elwood made,h the black rabbit said.
gMr. Elwood Cake? Itfs expensive for us! Nowc Why donft we go to my house? There are many sweets in my house,h the white rabbit said.
gThatfs a good idea! I want to go there at once because Ifve never been to your house!h The black rabbit jumped down and up.
Socthey went to the white rabbitfs house.
Regrettably, the queen and the king got angry at them later, but the two rabbits knew the queen also was absent from the meeting the two rabbits should have attended.
Alice saw a white rabbit and followed it. She came to a modern world. There were many cars, buildings, and traffic. She had come to New York City! She was very surprised! The white rabbit jumped into a yellow taxi cab, so Alice hopped into the next yellow cab and followed him. While she was in the taxi, she saw the Statue of Liberty. Then she saw a very cool boy who was very handsome. She fell in love with him. They ate pizza together. They lived happily ever after. The white rabbit was actually a love cupid! They are married. Now the white rabbit sometimes visits their house and enjoys talking with them. They are very happy.@
Alice saw a white rabbit and followed it into the forest where there was a tunnel. The white rabbit went into the tunnel and she followed it more. She passed through the tunnel, then Wonderland spread out before her. There was a strange castle, and there were many soldiers. They looked like cards. She was detected by them and chased. Then someone helped her. Yes, he was the white rabbit. She said, gThank you.h She became a captive of a white rabbit.
The rabbit turned back into a prince. The prince had been practicing magic and he accidentally transformed himself into a rabbit. The prince could return when he was loved by someone, so he could return because Alice loved him (the rabbit).
They got married. They spent a happy life since that time.
One day, however, a black rabbit came to the castle, and he took the princess away! When he did, the princess suddenly began to change, and she became a devil! After that, the princess and the black rabbit became companions.
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Names, Sapir-Whorf
Something for you to consider (Elgin, 2000). (This is a Word document; download and print it, then bring it to class with you next week). @
TigersTigers--as you know from class, Hobbes is one of my favorites. What are tigers in other contexts, other cultures?One of the stories that I grew up with (and quite remember eating, too) was the tale of Little Black Sambo. Courtesy of the Gutenberg Project, here is the original story as a PDF file (1.7MB). My memory of 'eating' refers to the Sambo's restaurants in the US, which served mainly pancakes (quite good as I recall). Here is a glimpse of some postcards (as a PDF 0.3MB) that the restaurant produced. Symbols Here is an interesting reading by D-L Nelson (2006) on symbols. In addition, the question I posed at the end of class: Where or what are the following contexts? "Imagine yourself walking through the front door of a large building in a big city. As you enter, you see many people carrying leather briefcases full of papers; all the men are wearing Armani suits and Ferragamo shoes. In front of you is a large, open lobby with a polished marble floor in which is the company logo. Above on the wall is a series of clocks showing the times in such places as London, New York, Tokyo, and Cairo. The woman at the reception desk is in a suit, too, and she greets you in most polished, polite way and then speaks into the wireless headset she is wearing. A uniformed security agent comes to guide you and ushers you into a brass-trimmed elevator. When the elevator doors open, you find yourself in a luxurious conference room with a long table and a panoramic view of the city 30 floors below." "Let us take another voyage. It's been a long day at work, and when you return home you realize there is absolutely nothing in the refrigerator. Undaunted, you walk a couple blocks to a nearby restaurant for some quick food. After walking across a large parking lot, you enter through an automatic door that opens into a waiting area where many people are lined up to order food. On the wall is a menu with pictures of the restaurant's various menu items. Looking around, you see cheap plastic chairs and a dirty floor, but no one seems to mind. When you finally get to the front of the line, the young person at the cash register makes a couple mistakes and finally has to call the manager for help." These are slightly modified passages from Rafaeli & Worline (1999). Please download and read a copy for class on May 28. On the 21st we'll be watching part of The Jungle Book (not sure about popcorn!). Heart of Darkness and a final look at symbols. Plot summary of Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness discussion questions Suspension of Disbelief From Coleridge in 1817, we encounter the idea of 'willing suspension of disbelief,' which refers to the willingness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or impossible. It also refers to the willingness of the audience to overlook the limitations of a medium, so that these do not interfere with the acceptance of those premises. According to the theory, suspension of disbelief is a quid pro quo: the audience tacitly agrees to provisionally suspend their judgment in exchange for the promise of entertainment. Jacobson (2002) On theorizing presence. What is real? (from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) The Stories We Tell (the canon unit) Worksheet on
canon@
How many types of stories?
Twas brillig and the slithy toves... (Jabberwocky)
A beloved longtime favorite of mine, click here to view Doonesbury.
That beloved penguin extraordinaire, Opus (from
Berkeley Breathed's
Bloom County)...with some sadness, I note the passing of Opus into cartoon
character lore (2008.11.12). He may have become a memory, but that memory is and will
always be a fond one.
One of my favorites, David
Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Iraq War CostClick here to learn more about the cost of the Iraq War...Just thought you might want to know: in one of my classes, I 'froze' this with a screenshot and then did so again exactly one minute later. According to this, one minute = $188,000... How terribly, criminally insane... @ Additional links, just for fun...Daryl Cagle's political cartoonists index
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