Lesson Plan for Week 7: General Thoughts and Notes

Major topics:

1. Thought for the day:

   […] every word is at home,
   Taking its place to support the others,
   The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
   An easy commerce of the old and the new,
   The common word exact without vulgarity,
   The formal word precise but not pedantic,
   The complete consort dancing together […]

   — T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding, lines 217-223 (§ Ⅴ)

2. Administrative Issues:
   1. Midterms are graded!
      • high score: 105%
      • low score: 48.25%
      • mean score: 88.6%
      • median: 92.5%
      • mode: 92%
      • standard deviation: 16.94 percentage points
      • sample size: 32
      • Counts:
        • F: 3
        • D: 1
        • C+: 1
        • B: 5
        • B+: 3
        • A-: 6
        • A: 4
        • A+, below 100%: 4
        • A+, over 100%: 5
   2. Your first paper is due on Monday, 19 May. If you have questions about the assignment, you should read the assignment handhout, my grading rubric — or set up an appointment to talk to me!
   3. Other issues? Questions?
3. Group work, based loosely on this article. (You may find it helpful to log into the UCSB Library Proxy Server before clicking on that link.)
   • For those who have asked, the musical selections played during the exercise were:
     • Fujiya & Miyagi — Collarbone
     • Annett Louisan — Der Schöne
     • Moby — Find My Baby
     • Portishead — Hunter
     • Iron & Wine — Such Great Heights
     • Massive Attack — Be Thankful For What You've Got
     • The Black Keys — The Desperate Man
     • Rasputina — Snow-Hen of Austerlitz
     • Gorillaz — Glitter Freeze (feat. Mark E Smith)
     • Morcheeba — Shoulder Holster
     • Radiohead — Electioneering
     • R.E.M. — I Took Your Name
     • Beck — O Maria
     • David Bowie — Everyone Says 'Hi'
     • Miike Snow — Cult Logic