discussing Unidentified Human Remains

By now everyone should have proposed a scene from the play to discuss, and everyone should have responded to at least two of those proposals. I've printed out the postings on the Forum that were accessible as of 8:45, and we'll do what we did with the printouts about The Hostage: I'll give everybody some time to read through them and find ones they'd like to respond to, or invite others to respond to, and we'll do a round to see what people have to say.

for Friday

Now that we've read and seen the two plays, or at least almost all of us have, I'd like to revisit the resources available on the Web and in the library. For class on Friday, find one quote about each play that you'd propose might be of interest to the rest of us. You might find it in one of the postings from the folks who did research on those plays (check out their reports on the "Reports on The Hostage and Unidentified Human Remains" link on the main course page), or by following up some of the leads identified in those reports, or by doing your own original search, either on line or in the library. Make sure you know exactly where you found your quote (it can't be something someone else in the class said; it needs to be something public -- published, or at least on the Web). Copy and paste the quote into a file, under it explain exactly where you found it, and then add a sentence or so saying why you think it's interesting.

Save the one on The Hostage as a file called hostage.htm in your public_html/engl2223 folder, and the one on Unidentified Human Remains as a file called remains.htm in the same place. If you save them before 9:00 Friday morning, I'll print them out and bring them to class; if you save them after that, you should print them yourself. If you can't save them in that folder and in the appropriate format, print them out and bring them to class, and we'll get them posted correctly afterward. If you haven't got the two quotes, don't come to class.

another reminder

In the last two prompts, I reminded people to post a new learning reflection, and to "read all the ones posted so far, at the time you post your new one, and make your new entry as long as the longest one so far posted. And if while you're reading you think of something that constitutes learning that you hadn't thought of before, mention in your posting whose journal made you think of it." I don't see that anybody did that (though some people did post a journal entry). This is a central part of your learning in this course, and if you don't do the learning journal seriously and reflectively, you'll have nothing to say in your final learning reflection -- and more important, you're much less likely to actually have learned very much. A word to the wise?

schedule

I'm still working on a schedule for the rest of the term. If you didn't see the production of Unidentified Human Remains you'll need to find a substitute. I've decided that, for various reasons, neither The Love List nor Tuesdays with Morrie will work as substitutes, so I'm going to restructure the way we'll deal with the one-act plays on our list and with The Rover (everybody will need to read and see both). More on that on Friday.