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| Saratoga Springs, NY's excellent Lyrical Ballad Bookstore — where I've often spent far too much money over the past decade — keeps rare books locked up in a former bank vault. |
As a means of starting our semester's work, I'd like you come up with your own brief answers to the following two questions and bring them to class on Wednesday. Your responses will be the foundation of our in-class discussion:
- How would you succinctly define English? Where does it come from and where is it going What makes it different from other languages? (Answer to the best of your ability and knowledge in < ~100 words)
- What does it mean to be an English major? How does an English major interact with the English language differently than laypeople? What does an English major intend to do with her life (or what can she hope to do)?
In addition to this short response I'd also like you to post a little info about your reading habits on our Facebook group.
First, list what you read this summer. Feel free to include things you completed and things you partially read and to indicate the genre of each. Mark books you were rereading with an (R). Since Facebook will butcher italics, don't worry about proper presentation. Also, don't feel the need to pad your list — "Oh yeah, I read Ulysses and Infinite Jest and that was just my June" — everybody's life circumstances are different and nobody's here to judge. This is just about getting a sense of who each of us is and what our interests are.
Second, since books are only part of what we read, I'd like you to briefly detail your online reading habits. What sites do you frequent on a daily basis? Feel free to categorize/group/explain as needed.
I'll post my own answers this evening as well.
First, list what you read this summer. Feel free to include things you completed and things you partially read and to indicate the genre of each. Mark books you were rereading with an (R). Since Facebook will butcher italics, don't worry about proper presentation. Also, don't feel the need to pad your list — "Oh yeah, I read Ulysses and Infinite Jest and that was just my June" — everybody's life circumstances are different and nobody's here to judge. This is just about getting a sense of who each of us is and what our interests are.
Second, since books are only part of what we read, I'd like you to briefly detail your online reading habits. What sites do you frequent on a daily basis? Feel free to categorize/group/explain as needed.
I'll post my own answers this evening as well.
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