Lesson Plan for Week 4: General Thoughts and Notes

[…] 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 (sec. V)

1. Return detection structure assignment.
2. Discussion of detection structure assignment.
   • The primary criterion for assigning your grade was how much attention you paid to the actual evidence that was used by the detective in solving the crime.
   • Additional criteria for whether you moved up into the check-plus range included the degree of attention you paid to your assignment's presentation and the degree of care that you exhibited toward your reader's experience.
   • For future reference: I do not accept handwritten work.
3. Pass out analytical grading rubric. Questions? — You are also welcome to bring questions next week.
4. Assignment for section next week: Bring the first page of paper one for group critique. If you do not bring the first page of your paper to section next week, you are not present for attendance purposes.

1. We have talked in lecture about views of masculinity constructed by The Long Goodbye. What views of femininity does the novel offer? What is Marlowe's view?
2. What overall "position," if any, does the novel take on the topic what what it means to be a woman? What view does Raymond Chandler seem to take on what it means to be female and what roles women should play?
3. Speaking of Roger Wade to Philip Marlowe, Eileen Wade says, You can't judge people by what they do. If you judge them at all, it must be by what they are. (95; ch. 13) What does she mean by this?