- Write up all our ideas on this super-blog (all our badass quotes), for each other's reference.
- Put together a structured presentation from all these ideas - ideally, each of us talks about the element of the novel which most interests us.
- We'll do a conventional handout, then clean up this blog so that it's only got A) things that we're happy to share with the rest of the group, and B) resources (like videos, links). We'll put up an anti plagiarism warning to stop people nicking our precious ideas, and using it to create Skynet.
- For the group discussion:
* Use the whiteboard to write up cool ideas? (JG)
* Split the class into groups, briefly, and ask questions which relate Fugitive Pieces to the other books on the curriculum, to help with writing essays.
* Concentrate on the THEMATIC LINKS of the book - we don't want to get dragged down into a vulvacentrism / postmodernism slough of despond.
* JG fancies doing some work on the linguistic technique of the book.
Also, I suggest we TIME our presentations.
Another idea - why don't we tell the class that we will put the **full** transcript of our presentation on the blog - then they don't have to get absorbed in their note taking, and they can properly LISTEN to our presentation. It makes the "oral presentation" a valuable teaching tool, rather than a crappy way of relaying detailed theoretical analysis.
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Hey guys, so where are we as of Monday?
I'm thinking of using my section to discuss the topic of LANGUAGE within the novel, as that's something I'm interested in.
We have a lot of topics, and a lot of quotes to support them, that's great. Which are you doing? Are we going to attempt at all to tie them together in the 10 minute presentation? We don't have much time, and our approach will be very snappy but we probably should have a little disclaimer, saying that we're being fragmented and nugget-sized, as opposed to uniform and structured.
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What about the discusssion section?
We have the points in this post about THEMATIC LINKS and LINKS WITH OTHER BOOKS, we need 3 questions for discussion. Should we have those two questions and one on the linguistic technique? Or something else. I think we should at least try to tie these questions to extracts (or only one extract).
What about handout/powerpoint? It might be helpful, although we do have this blog, and according to the welcome pack they're not necessary. (I do think that the powerpoints in the presentations so far have been a bit superfluous). Maybe if we're using extract analysis in the discussion, we should do that as a handout, with a big HTTP://FUGITIVEPIECESGROUP.BLOGSPOT.COM on the top.
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Just throwing some questions out, we need to discuss this. Or if you've had a discussion in the Funhouse (although I'll give you the respect of having better things to do), please fill me in. We can always meet up after the Shakey lecture tomorrow for a quick chinwag.
Great,
Mike
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