Session 07—Wed, Feb 1: Review

Topics for this session

❖ Review session for Midterm 01

Thoughts*

Two things happen in this session: we do an in-class exercise on "Discretionary Tale" that mimics what will be asked in Part Three of the exam, and I take questions.

Remember that this is quite a bit of reading assigned for the several upcoming sessions (up until Midterm 02).

Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Our time is limited. If you have questions prepare them ahead of time. I will probably ask you to hand them in at the beginning of class, then select what to answer.

✓ Read Discretionary Tale [bSpace, PDF] well enough that you can mention by name the main characters and what happened. Read it for cultural signals as well (what seems to be the values suggested). This is a humorous tale which makes estimating values difficult since you cannot read it "straight" but rather as humorous because of unspoken values that the writer assumes the reader knows.

Texts, multimedia notes, links*

nothing yet ...

Other*

nothing yet ...

*THOUGHTS: Reading before class probably helps follow session content, reading afterwards might help consolidate notes, revisiting for tests is recommended. Content might be added before class or anytime up until about 24 hours ahead of a midterm.

*TEXTS, MULTIMEDIA NOTES, LINKS: If I have read from something, shown something or presented audio that is not elsewhere mentioned, I usually include that information here for the curious, sometime after the class (since I often make last-minute decisions about including something). It might take a while and sometimes I forget. You can email me.

*OTHER: When possible I note here names, places, and other details that I have mentioned in a lecture that would otherwise not be accessible in the assigned materials or easily located on your own. As with "TEXTS ..." this is usually sometime after class and, again, I might not be able to get around to doing it.