Hey y'all!
First of all, I'd like to say that since starting my first-ever Latin course this fall, I now truly appreciate the word "y'all" and am committed to using it more than ever. "Y'all" is awesome for at least two reasons:
1) In Latin, there is a plural second-person that is different from the singular second-person. In English, we've just got "you" to cover everything, but Latin has a distinction between the two. It's seriously useful, and I get to translate plural second-person to "y'all" making translation way more fun.
2) "Y'all" is a great alternative to using "guys" or "you guys" to address a group of people. Why would you need an alternative? Because when one says "you guys" one is probably not only addressing male-identified humans. Ever since this was pointed out to me, I've been trying very hard to strike "you guys"/"guys" from my personal vocabulary. "Y'all" is awesome, because it carries no gender specification. Plus, it's just fun to say, right?
All right, ranting aside, this semester is already about a month in. Mid-term evals are due in about two weeks, which is terrifying. On the one hand, I do feel settled into my classes, on the other, it feels like I haven't made nearly enough progress. This semester's line-up looks like this:
Plan Seminar: reading the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Which I really should be reading right now...but you've seen the title of this blog, right?
Latin 1A: I now know how to translate "errāre est humanum." ("To error is human.") Which is good, because I feel like it's a good excuse for when I mess up in this class.
Fiction Workshop: This is the third time I've taken this class. When that happens at Marlboro, we're allowed to change the name of the class in our transcripts. Maybe I'll change it to something like, "Alien Fiction Workshop" and leave it semi-ambiguous.
Novel Writing Tutorial: This is going really well. I think.
Advanced Shakespeare Tutorial: This class is what the title of this blog refers to. Here's why:
So Advanced Shakespeare Tutorial is my tutorial for writing my critical lit Plan paper. Which is, as previously mentioned several hundred times, about William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. I'm arguing for an interpretation of the play where Cleopatra is considered a tragic hero. It's a great topic, and I love reading and writing about it.
Last semester, I had finished a 30-page draft of this paper, and I felt pretty good about it. Good enough that I felt like it would be done after a few more weeks worth of at-Marlboro work. Then I decided to take another semester.
Sections that I had considered nearly-done, are now back in draft-phase. I'm reading a new selection of dense philosophy texts to apply to the Aristotle's Poetics section. I'm spending my time trying to answer questions like: what is history vs. fiction? and trying to define the phrase imitation of action. It's thrilling reading and writing but y'all, I am blowing apart my paper.
And it's scary, but I'm hoping that what results from the wreckage is a stronger argument, and a touch more pretentiousness.
First of all, I'd like to say that since starting my first-ever Latin course this fall, I now truly appreciate the word "y'all" and am committed to using it more than ever. "Y'all" is awesome for at least two reasons:
1) In Latin, there is a plural second-person that is different from the singular second-person. In English, we've just got "you" to cover everything, but Latin has a distinction between the two. It's seriously useful, and I get to translate plural second-person to "y'all" making translation way more fun.
2) "Y'all" is a great alternative to using "guys" or "you guys" to address a group of people. Why would you need an alternative? Because when one says "you guys" one is probably not only addressing male-identified humans. Ever since this was pointed out to me, I've been trying very hard to strike "you guys"/"guys" from my personal vocabulary. "Y'all" is awesome, because it carries no gender specification. Plus, it's just fun to say, right?
All right, ranting aside, this semester is already about a month in. Mid-term evals are due in about two weeks, which is terrifying. On the one hand, I do feel settled into my classes, on the other, it feels like I haven't made nearly enough progress. This semester's line-up looks like this:
Plan Seminar: reading the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Which I really should be reading right now...but you've seen the title of this blog, right?
Latin 1A: I now know how to translate "errāre est humanum." ("To error is human.") Which is good, because I feel like it's a good excuse for when I mess up in this class.
Fiction Workshop: This is the third time I've taken this class. When that happens at Marlboro, we're allowed to change the name of the class in our transcripts. Maybe I'll change it to something like, "Alien Fiction Workshop" and leave it semi-ambiguous.
Novel Writing Tutorial: This is going really well. I think.
Advanced Shakespeare Tutorial: This class is what the title of this blog refers to. Here's why:
So Advanced Shakespeare Tutorial is my tutorial for writing my critical lit Plan paper. Which is, as previously mentioned several hundred times, about William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. I'm arguing for an interpretation of the play where Cleopatra is considered a tragic hero. It's a great topic, and I love reading and writing about it.
Last semester, I had finished a 30-page draft of this paper, and I felt pretty good about it. Good enough that I felt like it would be done after a few more weeks worth of at-Marlboro work. Then I decided to take another semester.
Sections that I had considered nearly-done, are now back in draft-phase. I'm reading a new selection of dense philosophy texts to apply to the Aristotle's Poetics section. I'm spending my time trying to answer questions like: what is history vs. fiction? and trying to define the phrase imitation of action. It's thrilling reading and writing but y'all, I am blowing apart my paper.
And it's scary, but I'm hoping that what results from the wreckage is a stronger argument, and a touch more pretentiousness.
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