APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers processed an essay.
And so did we as the objective states, APELCers. I also reviewed the notes rubric that I’ll adhere to from now on, which I’ve posted below:
- Four (97) for copious notes that have been highlighted and effectively organized for review. They include at least three (3) creative ideas for paragraphs and evaluative and connotative practice theses; at least three (3) original and insightful level 2 questions; a detailed t-chart with conscious explanation.
- Three (85) for sufficient notes that have been highlighted and adequately organized for review. They include at least three (3) sound ideas for paragraphs and attendant and aware theses; at least three (3) intelligent level 2 questions; a necessary t-chart with obligatory explanation.
- Two (75) for some notes that have been highlighted for review. They include at least three (3) expected ideas for paragraphs and standard theses; at least three (3) customary level 2 questions; a t-chart with requisite explanation.
- One (65) for some notes that have been highlighted for review. They include at least three (3) attempted ideas for paragraphs and uninspired theses; at least three (3) basic level 2 questions; a t-chart with insufficient explanation.
Those of you worried about these initial grades, remember that both your first day quiz and these notes have been designated “Can be dropped” in my gradebook so as not to hurt those who did poorly (in the long run) and to reward those who did well.
Remember that your revisions and cover sheets of timed-writing 5 are due tomorrow and the next day by the end of tutoring.
- Writers must have conferred with me over their initial paper to submit a revision;
- Papers must be accompanied by a cover sheet detailing its writer’s revision process (under Class Materials)—no cop-outs;
- Papers must be typed and formatted according to MLA style guidelines (I mean it)—use the template (under Class Materials)—and should be no less than two and half pages and no more than three pages long;
- Cover sheets are to be attached to the revision, former on top of the latter, with one staple, horizontally, in the upper-left hand corner;
- Papers containing more than four obvious errors in conventions and usage for formal, written, academic English or that deviate from MLA style (including not embedding quotations) will lose 7% from the final grade (I have several style books you can reference.);
- Writers who did not confer with me over their initial drafts or who chose not to revise their essays must still submit a cover sheet, blank except for name, date, title, and initial score and “I choose not to revise timed-writing X” in number 4, signed;
- Revision scores will replace initial in-class scores if merited.
As we discussed the Orwell text today, the subjects of imperialism and empire inevitably came up, and so I thought I’d offer “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. This is controversial text, and has been interpreted in at least a couple of ways. Try processing it.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.Take up the White Man’s burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.Take up the White Man’s burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.Take up the White Man’s burden—
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
“Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”Take up the White Man’s burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.Take up the White Man’s burden—
Have done with childish days—
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
How does this inform your recent readings? Do you read this as a sincere exhortation or as satire?
See you next class.