Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 12

Office Hours

Mon 1-4pm in GH 173 Tues 1-3pm in HUM Library Tues 3-4 pm in GH 173 24/7 at mjlundell@yahoo.com

Handbook
Subject / Verb Agreement

The spills of the seventeen million gallon truckload of


molasses across the city smells bad everywhere.

Plural subject = Plural Verbs, Singular Subjects get


Singular Verbs

Singular or Plural Verb means it has a singular or Plural


subject (not that it is a singular or plural form of the word smells has a singular subject always (she, he, it, the armpit))

Unclear References
Check all your sentences that start with this, and all of
the uses of your pronouns. Unclear writing = its not clear what you are saying exactly.
unclear references again, everyone.

This means that you should read the chapter on

The prevalence of errors across everyones papers


means that you all should read the chapter again.

Michael keeps telling the class the same crap over and
over, especially to Sam, he wont stop talking about it, give him a break.

Details
Paratext HUM format includes pg #, proper quotation
format, manila folder, name thing, title (good title), etc. etc. etc. check HUM website

Poems are quoted differently

Papers not in HUM format will be marked down 1/3 a


grade

Why? Fascism? No. For the details. Look at your


work. Look closely at your work.

Compare/contrast
Pick something that actually is comparable on an
interesting level something specific

Faust/Gretchen Meph/Martha (interesting, but not developed yet some specific


scene connecting the two that reveals something)

Crusoe is like a father to Friday (interesting, but can


you also compare Crusoe/dad to Friday and his dad?)

Details
Most mothers believe that, to protect young people, it
is enough to refrain from speaking about matters of the heart in front of them. Mme de Chartres held the opposite view (29).

Crusoe should like cannibals unless hes racist.

Details
What does Faust want?

What does he get?


Is that what he wanted? Why is this play funny?

Characters are Different (4)


D: Their customary fares not of the best - / And yet
they are appallingly well-read.

P: Do not remind me of that motley throng, / Spare me


the sight of them! Our spirits fail / And flounder in that streamGive me the quietness where I belong

C: They must be entertained, its what one owes / To


them.

Faust 15
For I know I know nothing.

Why Easter

Plague 33/34
F: We, worse than any plague, raged far and wide. I
myself poisoned thousands, I saw how they all wasted away and perished now Men praise that cynical mass-homicide.

Faust
If ever to the moment I shall say: Beautiful moment, do
not pass away! (52)

You might also like