Lesson Plan for Week 5: General Thoughts and Notes

Patrick Mooney, TA
Eng 193, Prof. Newfield
4/5 February 2014

Thought for the day:

The old man rose and gazed into my face
and said that was official recognition
that I was now a dual citizen.

He therefore desired me when I got home
to consider myself a representative
and to speak on their behalf in my own tongue.

Their embassies, he said, were everywhere
but operated independently
and no ambassador would ever be relieved.

— Seamus Heaney, From the Republic of Conscience, section III (p. 277 in Opened Ground).
Administrative Issues:
1. Remember that your first paper is due at the beginning of Thursday's lecture.
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:
- And yes! — as several of you observed, you might profitably think of all of these songs as taking a position on (some aspect of) what we've been talking about in lecture as aspects of noir.