Department of English

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 or three other students in close reading and thinking about your chosen text. See Suggested Response and Presentation Topics below. Submit your reading response 3 in class on Wednesday, November 23, 2016.


Suggested Response and Presentation Topics

You and your group-mates are inspectors who have chosen to inspect one work on the syllabus. In reading and discussing that work with your group, decide which three or four aspects of it is worth "covering," that is, which elements or features of the work especially characterize or define it? What literary devices or techniques are prominent and yield revealing insights upon close inspection? Each group member will explore one of those aspects in detail.

Alternatively, you and your group members may be interested in a particular technique or theme, in which case you will consider three or four works on our syllabus that "cover" the technique or theme in fascinating ways. Each member will focus on a different work and inspect that technique or theme in the work. How, for example, is dialog used in An Inspector Calls, "Everyday Use" and The Edible Woman? What does the distinctive wordplay create in "First Day at School," The Edible Woman and Shakespeare's Sonnet 138? What is the function of untruth in "Funeral Blues," "In an Artist's Studio," Sonnet 138 and An Inspector Calls?

Share your discoveries with me and other groups in your final reading response and presentation.

Below are titles on our syllabus.


Section 2 Final Presentation Consultation Schedule

At a time slot below, each panel sign up to discuss your plans for the final presentation with me.

Inspectors Call: Covering Literature Panels
Panel 1:  Covering "The Most Dangerous Game": Traps—Physical, Mental, and Linguistic
9:30–9:50 a.m.
Presiding: Kukasina Kubaha
Speakers:
1.  “Physical Traps,” Naphatsorn Na Nakhon
2.  “Mental Traps,” Pimchanok Boonpok
3.  “Linguistic Traps,” Prompiriya Promsangkaha
Respondent 1: Nuttida Aderektrakarn
Respondent 2: Pimpun Jundaeng
Respondent 3: Surakan Kittiperakorn

 
Panel 2:  Covering "First Day at School"
9:50–10:10 a.m.
Presiding: Narawit Kongko
Speakers:
1.  “Covering Stanza 1,” Patteera Pimsarn
2.  “Covering Stanza 2,” Pattarapol Chanprasit
3.  “Covering Stanza 3,” Panisara Mankongprapai
Respondent 1: Tam Sothonprapakon
Respondent 2: Pornpatch Thanaprasitikul
Respondent 3: Nattakarn Tantiwanichpun

 
Panel 3:  Covering The Edible Woman
10:10–10:30 a.m.
Presiding: Panicha Akkaramongkolchai
Speakers:
1.  “Title,” Ramita Pumekate
2.  “Title,” Chanyanuch Panlainark
3.  “Title,” Warunporn Tiyabhorn
4.  “Title,” Pornpatch Thanaprasitikul
Respondent 1: Nopparuj Saadruks
Respondent 2: Nuttanun Puttanapun
Respondent 3: Panicha Akkaramongkolchai
Respondent 4: Naphatsorn Na Nakhon


Panel 4:  Covering Female Characters in The Edible Woman
8:00–8:25 a.m.
Presiding: Nuttanun Puttanapun
Speakers:
1.  “Title,” Pimpun Jundaeng
2.  “Title,” Tam Sothonprapakon
3.  “Title,” Narawit Kongko
4.  “Title,” Panicha Akkaramongkolchai
Respondent 1: Pimchanok Boonpok
Respondent 2: Kukasina Kubaha
Respondent 3: Panisara Mankongprapai
Respondent 4: Prompiriya Promsangkaha
 

Panel 5: Covering The Edible Woman: Finding Marian
8:30–8:55 a.m.
Presiding: Patteera Pimsarn
Speakers:
1.  “Marian in Wonderland,” Nattakarn Tantiwanichpun
2.  “Marian in Toronto,” Nuttida Aderektrakarn
3.  “Marian in Food,” Nuttanun Puttanapun
Respondent 1: Pattarapol Chanprasit
Respondent 2: Narawit Kongko
Respondent 3: Chanyanuch Panlainark
 

Panel 6: (Un-)Covering Myths in The Edible Woman
9:00–9:25 a.m.
Presiding: Naphatsorn Na Nakhon
Speakers:
1.  “Capitalistic Society and Its Implications on the Characters in The Edible Woman: Is It a Myth?,” Surakan Kittiperakorn
2.  “Deconstructing the Myth of Gender Identity in The Edible Woman,” Kukasina Kubaha
3.  “Exploring the Myth of Freedom of Action in The Edible Woman,” Nopparuj Saadruks
Respondent 1: Warunporn Tiyabhorn
Respondent 2: Patteera Pimsarn
Respondent 3: Ramita Pumekate

Monday, November 7, 2016
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
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Thursday, April 8, 2016
11:50 a.m.–noon 
12:00–12:10 p.m.
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12:40–12:50 p.m.  Ramita, Warunporn, Pornpatch, Chanyanuch
12:50–1:00 p.m. 

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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:

 


Final Presentation


Presentation of your group's literary inspection is in week 16 of class: Monday, November 21 and Wednesday, November 23, 2016. Each panel of three or four inspectors 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 18, 2016.


Please inform me of any special equipment needs, otherwise our in-class computer (which uses Microsoft Office 2007) and LCD projector is provided.



 



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