Lesson Plan for Week 2: General Thoughts and Notes

Patrick Mooney, TA
Eng 193, Prof. Newfield
9 October 2012

1. Thought for the day:
   1. "Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it." -Michel Foucault, The Discourse on Language
2. Administrative Issues:
   1. Distribute complete section guidelines handout. Allow time for questions.
   2. Section issues? Crashing?
   3. Other registration/administrative issues?
3. Questions for discussion:
   1. In what ways does Dupin's method in "Murders in the Rue Morgue" differ from the methods employed by the Paris gendarmerie? What characteristics does it have that the methods of the police do not?
   2. What are the individual pieces of evidence from which Dupin constructs his explanation?
   3. What specific capacities does Dupin have that allow him to engage in his explanatory procedure?