Lesson Plan for Week 2: General Thoughts and Notes

Patrick Mooney, TA
Department of English, UC Santa Barbara
English 65LP/Theater 94, Profs. Kearney and Appel
10 and 11 August 2016

Major topics:

1. Opening write (5 min.): identify a place in the text where you experienced an interpretive difficulty. What is difficult about it? What do you think is going on there?
2. Questions? Administrative matters? What's on your mind? How is everyone doing?
3. About your weekly responses:
   • Well done! Everyone got full credit.
   • If you're looking for a general piece of advice, though:
     • make sure that you're producing an argument for claims you advance;
     • make sure that you are basing your discussion on a close reading of the text.
   • I will generally not give written responses to weekly response assignments, but you are always welcome to ask for feedback, or to ask questions.
   • A lot of people discussed Beatrice in relation to feminism.
     • I want to hold off on a complete discussion of this until next week, but for now: What do you take the word feminism to mean?
4. Dogberry's language: What's funny about it? How does it function?
   • III.iii (97 ff.), III.v (117 ff.), IV.ii (145 ff.)
5. Borachio's confession (V.i, p. 170): what motivates it? Is it believable?