1. Entering The Conversation Love, Death, War, Growth, Etc. Aesthetics/Beauty Past and Present and Future What Makes Us Human

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3. Course Requirements Essay 115% Essay 215% 4 (5) Quizzes40% Course Project20% Prelim Work For Project 10% AttendanceXX%

4. Why Is This Class Not Just Literature? Context, Context, Context Memory Practical Reason Personal Reason

5. How To Succeed Work Hard Be Creative Don’t Be Afraid That You Are Going To Fail (You Will Not Fail, If You Work Hard & Try To Be Creative.) I Don’t Expect You To Be An Expert

6. How To Succeed According to Miss Frizzle Take Chances Make Mistakes Get Messy

7. What Difference Does It Make? More Than Just A Code For What Educated People Know Discovering What Makes Us Humane* Beyond Selfish Interest Humane: Marked By Compassion, Sympathy, or Consideration for Others

8. Is-ness and What-ness

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10. Reading Literature Read the text several times. Read with a pencil in your hand. Write about what you have read. Talk about it. Get down to the nitty-gritty. Compare it. Contrast it. Think about it in context.

11. Important Elements of Literature Imagery and Metaphor Diction (Connotation & Denotation) Form and Play

12. Imagery and Simile Image: Something You Experience With The Senses Simile: Comparison Using Like or As

13. Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. W. S. Merwin

14. Diction (Connotation & Denotation) Diction: the way words are used. Denotation: what a word means literally. Connotation: what a word suggests.

15. Let us honor... Let us honor if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

16. Form and Play Form: the shape or design of a work. Play:

18. Metaphors I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s big with it’s yeast rising. Money’s new-minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there’s no getting off.

19. What Literature Does: Two Possibilities

20. What Literature Does Expresses the Inexpressible

21. Tell all the Truth Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind -

22. What Literature Does Expresses the Inexpressible Changes our Perspective

23. You Fit Into Me You fit in to me like a hook into an eye: A fish hook, an open eye.

24. Genres of Literature Poetry –Narrative –Lyric Fiction –Short Story –Novel Drama

25. How To Read A Painting Subject of the Painting Genres of Painting Elements of Painting What Difference Does It Make?

26. Subject of the Painting Biographical Information Description of Objects Description of Action Background Information Background Story In Context of the Period

27. Biographical Information

28. Description of Objects

29. Description of Action

30. Background Information

31. Background Story

32. In Context of The Period Classical (Beginnings to 476) Medieval (476 to 1500) Renaissance (1500-1600) Baroque (1600-1700) Enlightenment (1700-1800) Romanticism (1800-1900) Modernism (1900-2000)

33. Genres of Painting Grand Themes Landscape Portrait Still Life Genre Scene Psychological/Poetic Abstract

34. Grand Themes: Mythological

35. Grand Themes: Biblical

36. Grand Themes: Historical

37. Landscape: Naturalistic

38. Landscape: Expressionistic

39. Portrait: Individual

40. Portrait: Group

41. Still Life: Traditional

42. Still Life: Modern

43. Genre Scene (Everyday Life)

44. Psychological/Poetic

46. Abstract

47. The Elements of Painting Form: The Arrangement of Various Elements on the Canvas (Or Other Medium)

48. The Elements of Painting Plane Area Volume Negative Space Perspective Texture Light and Dark Line Color

49. The Elements of Painting Plane * Area * Volume *Texture * Line Perspective * Negative Space * Light/Dark * Color

50. What Difference Does It Make?

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