Faculty of Arts,
Chulalongkorn University
Reading Response 3 and Presentation
Guidelines
Reading
Response 3
The last reading response (2
pp.; MLA
format) is a way for you to present your examination of a literary
text on the syllabus this semester and to bring together skills in
reading, critical thinking, and writing that we have worked on these past
few months. You will be working with two other students in close reading
and thinking about your chosen text, and will be presenting your findings
in a panel with them during the last week of class. See Suggested Response
and Presentation Topics below. Submit your reading response 3 in class on
Wednesday, November 27, 2019.
Response and Presentation
Instructions
Your final reading response is two pages long. This paper will be part of a
group effort to study a topic or text. You will present your paper in a
panel with your group members in the last week of class. Panel and paper
topics are suggested below. Each individual and group should refine the
topics further, after your study and discussion of the texts, to reflect
your textual investigation results. You are also welcome to propose your own
topic and panel. Please make an appointment to discuss your ideas with me
Final presentations (25 minutes per panel: 15 minutes presentation [5
minutes per speaker if you have 3 speakers on your panel] + 10 minutes
question and answer session) take place on Monday, November 25 and
Wednesday, November 27, 2019. Students form six panels of three members
and decide to work on one of the topics below to present in class, with
each member focusing on one aspect of a topic or on one text. You may
study and research any aspect of any work(s) in the course packet that
interests you including those suggested by the topics given below. These
are general topics that need to be narrowed and refined into a specific
argument. Discuss among your panel members what aspect of the topic each
person wants to focus and speak on, share your research and close reading
discoveries, critique each other’s work in progress, and together present
to classmates your combined effort what close reading reveals about a text
or texts. Sign up to meet with me to discuss your ideas in more detail in
a time slot given in the schedule below.
Scroll down for more specific instructions on the presentation and
participants' roles.
Consultation Schedule Sign-Up Results
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
2:00–2:15 p.m.
2:15–2:30 p.m.
2:30–2:45 p.m.
2:45–3:00 p.m.
3:00–3:15 p.m.
3:15–3:30 p.m.
3:30–3:45 p.m.
3:45–4:00 p.m.
4:00–4:15 p.m.
4:15–4:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
2:00–2:15 p.m.
2:15–2:30 p.m.
2:30–2:45 p.m.
2:45–3:00 p.m.
3:00–3:15 p.m.
3:15–3:30 p.m.
3:30–3:45 p.m.
3:45–4:00 p.m.
4:00–4:15 p.m.: Pimpraew, Nichapa, Pimtida and Sarunyu
4:15–4:30 p.m.
Friday, November 15, 2019
2:00–2:15 p.m.
2:15–2:30 p.m.
2:30–2:45 p.m.
2:45–3:00 p.m.
3:00–3:15 p.m.: Siraprapa, Weeraya, Saruttaya
3:15–3:30 p.m.: Kesirin, Kamonmas, Chanya
3:30–3:45 p.m.: Ratanon, Supitcha, Chanakan, Suebsak
3:45–4:00 p.m.
4:00–4:15 p.m.
4:15–4:30 p.m.
Suggested Response and
Presentation Topics
Below are reading response 3/final presentation topics.
1. Ars longa, vita brevis
This panel will explore life limitations as expressed in three literary
works. Some questions that we will discuss are:
- What do the contrasting lifetimes (short human life vs. long
literary life) enable the authors to achieve?
- How do the authors portray life? In what ways is life seen as
limited? Why is life worth preserving? What about/in life is worth
preserving?
- What forms does art take?
- What values doe the authors give art? In what way is art seen as
having a longer life than a human lifespan? How does art compare to
life? What does art have to offer life?
Focus 1: Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
Focus 2: Ted Chiang, "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"
Focus 3: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
Focus 4: J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls
2. Stories and Realities
This panel will explore the interplay between fiction and reality in
imaginative writing. Issues to investigate:
- How are literary works different from lived reality? How are they
the same?
- What is truthful about fiction?
- What is fictional about our/the author's perceived reality?
- How does the work present or deal with reality? What does it call or
present as reality? What qualities and values does it give reality?
- How might storytelling allow authors to say things about reality
that they otherwise might not be able to?
Focus 1: Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
Focus 2: Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Focus 3: Dudley Randall, "The Ballad of Birmingham"
Focus 4: Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
3. Crime and Punishment
This panel will investigate ideas about crime and its consequences
(physical and psychological). Ideas to pursue:
- What constitutes a crime or are presented as crimes in the work? In
what ways are they criminal or damaging?
- Whose crime? A crime against whom or what?
- Who gets to define crime or justice? Who gets to give punishment?
- What are the consequences of the crime(s)?
- What is the relationship between crime and punishment, and justice?
- How is crime justified and how is punishment justified in the works?
Focus 1: Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Focus 2: Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
Focus 3: J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls
4. Variations on Repetition
Repetition is a deceptive technique. On the face of it, repetition is
sameness, similarity. In actual use, a repeated sound, word, phrase,
sense, or structure is hardly ever monotonous or static. This panel will
scrutinize the use of repetition in poetic works where this feature is
distinctive, follow the recurring element(s), explain how it varies with
each occurrence and how it affects other aspects of the poem, and
evaluating the focus results together. Some questions that will be
examined:
- What can repetition do?
- What is a suitable way to characterize its function in the literary
works?
Focus 1: Thomas Hardy, “The Walk”
Focus 2: Dorothy Parker, “One Perfect Rose”
Focus 3: W. B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
Focus 4: Christina Rossetti, “In an Artist's Studio”
5. Variations on Perspective
How is perspective established in a literary work? How are different
perspectives created? How does perspective change? How do characters,
dialogue, diction, or syntax form perspective? How is perspective related
to point of view, voice, tone, time, scope, scale, development, and idea?
This panel aims to inspect this framing device or lens at play in
different works and explain how it shapes the works. How does it comment
on the theme? What argument does it propose? Taking into consideration all
the findings of our close reading, we would like to be able to conclude
on:
- What we find compelling about perspective
- Why it matters from what view a story or situation is told
Focus 1: Ted Chiang, “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”
Focus 2: Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Focus 3: Roger McGough, “First Day at School”
Focus 4: Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
Focus 5: Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
6. The Power of Image(ry)
This panel will inspect images and imagery in poems with evocative
diction. Some questions we will ask about the works:
- What are the denotations and connotations of these suggestive words?
- How do they affect the meaning of each other and of other elements
in the context of the poems?
- What do they reveal or reflect about the entities or ideas
represented?
- In what way are their associative or dissociative effects usual or
unusual?
- What tone is created? How do they direct the poems’ movement?
- Where do the poems begin and where do they end?
- Pooling our observations on the different focuses, what have we
discovered about the function and power of imagery?
Focus 1: Edmund Waller, “Go, Lovely Rose”
Focus 2: “The Two Ravens”
Focus 3: W. H. Auden, “Funeral Blues”
Focus 4: Christina Rossetti, “In an Artist's Studio”
Focus 5: W. B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
7. Conflict and Resolution
Creative writing is an exciting space for exploration; issues that are
very challenging to solve may be experimentally tested within the
possibilities of imaginative art. This panel will examine conflict(s) in
literary works and their resolutions. Some issues we will explore:
- What conflicts or kinds of conflicts are explored in the works?
- Why are the conflicts challenging or impossible to unravel or
settle?
- Who and what are involved?
- How do the texts deal with the conflict?
- In what way do the texts resolve the problem, contradiction or
resistance? In what way do the texts not provide an answer,
solution, or way out of the conflict?
- What are the effects of establishing conflict and engaging with it?
Focus 1: Susan Glaspell,
Trifles
Focus 2: Richard Connell, “The Most Dangerous Game”
Focus 3: J. B. Priestley,
An Inspector Calls
Focus 4: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
Focus 5: Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
Section 3
Final Presentation Schedule
Monday, November 25, 2019
Panel 1: A Swamp of Morality
9:30–9:55 a.m.
Presiding: Chanya Khamkhananon
Speakers:
1. “Chase’s Crime and Punishment,” Sarunyu Thirayunthikul
2. “Pa’s Crime and Punishment,” Pimtida Saeue
3. “Kya’s Crime and Punishment,” Nichapa Kheawsutti
4. “Nature’s Judgment,” Pimpraew Thongsrikum
Respondents:
1. Kamonmas Samutratanakul
2. Supitcha Vongputtidej
3. Siraprapa Lancaster
4. Suebsak Satrapai
Panel 2: Title
10:00–10:25 a.m.
Presiding: Saruttaya Rungsakorn
Speakers:
1. “,” Sudsita Sukkasem
2. “,” Thamonwan Sukkasem
3. “,” Varanyoo Chaimol
Respondents:
1. Kesirin Phakasetthakarn
2. Weeraya Chaijedsarid
3. Chanya Khamkhananon
Panel 3: Title
10:30–10:55 a.m.
Presiding: Supitcha Vongputtidej
Speakers:
1. “,” Shunya Pontaveevut
2. “,” Panisara Prathomkruk
3. “,” Suvipath Matukarun
Respondents:
1. Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee
2. Chanakan Wittayasakpan
3. Saruttaya Rungsakorn
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Panel 4: Title
8:00–8:25 a.m.
Presiding: Nichapa Kheawsutti
Speakers:
1. “,” Kesirin Phakasetthakarn
2. “,” Kamonmas Samutratanakul
3. “,” Chanya Khamkhananon
Respondents:
1. Suvipath Matukarun
2. Thamonwan Sukkasem
3. Pimpraew Thongsrikum
Panel 5: Perspectives on Family
8:30–8:55 a.m.
Presiding: Panisara Prathomkruk
Speakers:
1. “,” Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee
2. “An Inspector Calls,” Chanakan Wittayasakpan
3. “,” Suebsak Satrapai
4. “,” Supitcha Vongputtidej
Respondents:
1. Nichapa Kheawsutti
2. Varanyoo Chaimol
3. Pimtida Saeue
4. Shunya Pontaveevut
Panel 6: Perspectives on the Third Person
9:00–9:25 a.m.
Presiding: Thamonwan Sukkasem
Speakers:
1. “,” Siraprapa Lancaster
2. “,” Weeraya Chaijedsarid
3. “,” Saruttaya Rungsakorn
Respondents:
1. Sudsita Sukkasem
2. Panisara Prathomkruk
3. Sarunyu Thirayunthikul
Revision
Rewrite
to fix problems regarding the idea, support, prose, organization,
mechanics, and style to make your paper more effective. Some things
to keep in mind as you proofread and edit your work:
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Does my title show that I have a point to make?
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Is my point sound, clear, and interesting?
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Have I supported my point with compelling evidence?
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Is the organization of my paper logical and appropriate
to the points I am making?
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Is my language clear, consistent, and suited to the
subject matter?
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Do each of my paragraphs have a clear point and
coherence?
- Have I incorporated quotations smoothly into my own prose?
- Do I provide balanced discussions of the quotes I cite?
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Are my sentences varied, interesting, and effective?
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Do my verbs agree with their subjects? Pronouns with
their nouns?
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Is my paper free of spelling mistakes?
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Have I cited my sources properly?
Final Presentation
Presentation of your panel's literary examination is in week
16 of class: Monday, November 25 and Wednesday, November 27, 2019. Each
panel of three speakers will have fifteen minutes to present their close
study of texts we have read in this course. This will be followed by a
ten-minute question and answer session. A moderator will be presiding over
the presentations and discussion session of each panel, introducing the
speakers, mediating the questions and responses, and making sure things
stay on schedule.
Practice reading your presentation aloud with visual aid if
you have any, and edit for speakability, clarity, and time.
Respondents give constructive comments on the panelists'
talk, indicating illuminating and effective points made, pointing out
problems to fix ex. content, logic, substantiation, organization,
clarification, delivery, and giving further commentary and opinions on the
issues being discussed. Respondents assigned to a panel are responsible
for giving feedback to any and all of the speakers on that panel but are
free to comment on papers of different panels as well.
You will be graded both for your performance in giving your talk and in
responding to your classmates' presentations, how you present your own
ideas and how you show that you know how to listen to, think about, and
discuss ideas that others propose.
A program of the final presentation schedule will be posted
on our detailed
schedule page once panel and response titles, speakers and
moderators are finalized. You are responsible for e-mailing me any
revisions to your presentation title by Friday, November 22, 2019.
Please inform me of any special equipment needs, otherwise
our in-class computer (which uses Microsoft Office 2013) and LCD projector
is provided.
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