Prompt
Your first essay asks you to consider the differences between the two books you are reading pertaining to POV owing to one’s sex. This is a small piece to the puzzle, this nomination of point of view bias with sex. To warm up to this, I want here to provide a couple prompts on the two books to get you to thinking about what they are up to. This week is on Ann Beattie. Next week will be on Gary Thompson.
Directions
Read the prompt for the reading listed below and then answer it.
Write two to three paragraphs on the short story.
Then read your three of your classmates and comment on what they wrote on while thinking of your response in comparison to yours.
This allows them to have your comments to work with as well as their own thinking.
Beattie Discussion
Ann Beattie’s The New Yorker Stories. “A Platonic Relationship”
Let’s start with the idea that a friend says to you, “I want to tell you a story,” so does, but before they can explain why they told you the story they did, they have to leave because of an emergency. What you are left with is the story. It was told to you with a purpose in mind, so what was that purpose? How did it make you feel? What was it about?
These are important questions to answer here, and since they are unique to you, there can be no right or wrong because only you can give yourself the value of the story.
So consider the above questions and talk about here in the forum that is this discussion board for Ann Beattie’s story, “A Platonic Relationship.”
We read alone and are left to think about what we have read alone afterwards most of the time. But not now in our class. You get to share your valuable thoughts and ideas here.
Here is a sample student entry for this story as an example of maybe what you might want to consider doing. You can respond to it as well.
“The story was kind of creepy. I wasn’t expecting it. It wasn’t a ghost story or some kind of murder mystery but it had that effect on me. It was like visiting the scene of a crime, and it had me asking after what crimes have been committed in my life. The crime here is Ellen’s failed marriage. I really don’t know why she left him except maybe she was tired of taking care of him. And then she moves in with Sam and has this platonic relationship, but Sam is a loser and doesn’t do much of anything. He wants to be a lawyer but drops out of school. He doesn’t pay rent, and Ellen starts to clean up after him, like she did for her husband, but she does not resent doing this. All very strange.
“Soon Ellen starts to lose her way, staying up and drinking beer with Sam, not doing her job which is to work as a music teacher. It seems that she started to do well, but this thing with Sam who in the ends just leaves to ride a motorcycle causes here to lose her way. I don’ know why.
“What I do know is that I have friends who are as aimless as Sam and I used to be kind of like them, smoking a lot of weed and not doing much. Then one of them hung himself. It was an accident. They were at a party and he was screwing around pretending when he fell. Everyone was drunk and they could not get the rope off his neck in time. I heard about this from my friend, Dorothy, and right then I decided I needed to go to school. I think it is a good idea. I am here.”
Now it is your turn. How can you relate to the Ann Bettie’s story (not the one above)?
Grading Rubric
While the rubric for assignments will change, the grading rubric for the discussions is fixed. Here is how it is set.
While quantity is not quality, it does go to show for time and effort. So when answering for the discussions you want to be mindful of the level of work others in the class have done. By comparing your work to theirs, a kind of organic formula for grading appears.
This means, in terms of length, an average length response can be gauged, and from this level those above and below that mark can be easily realized. Be mindful of this.
With that understanding in place, the following can be managed.
15/25 means the work done is of an average, falling in line with the work your classmates saw as necessary in completing the work for this discussion.
10/25 means the work done did not meet the average the class decided was acceptable in answering the discussion prompt.
5/25 means your name appears and some work was done so as to avoid the absence for this week.
20/25 means the work done here is above the average of the class response for this discussion. Good work.
25/25 means that the work is even greater than the above average work done. In comparing the responses, these pieces distinguish themselves be being at once personal and insightful as well as displaying a keen eye to the reading passages necessary to produce this level of discourse.
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