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Re: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:29:21 -0500
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If I had to face David's problem, I'd agree with Harry. And some kids will want to do the intervening summaries for the class themselves, because assignment or no assignment, they get carried through. Thank you, David. Happy New Year! Walter James Miller

----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 4:40 pm
Subject: Re: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>


> David, David, David. There's no need to apolgise at all. We can all quite
> understand the pressures that you must be understand to try and
> educate the
> masses into the works of Verne (for which I personally think you
> should get
> an award for). As to your question, might I suggest that you skip those
> chapters that are basically movement (for instance the entire chapter
> is
> nothing but the Nautlius moving from one place to another with nothing
> of
> interest happening at all). Actually that reminds me, would you have any
> objections if I sent you a blog (in the same style as Fogg's blog from
> 2006)
> based on the experiences of Professor Aronax?
>
> Subject: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)
>
> Last Spring I used JCE for my second 102 class, this year I'll be using
> 20K - using the Miller and Walter translation as well as using parts
> of Dr.
> Chamberlin's incredible study guide for 20K. As we at LA Tech are on the
> quarter system (sigh) and as I need to cover other topics (short fiction,
> drama, and poetry), I have been advised that I should probably not
> have the
> students read the entire work (I remember having to read more when I
> was a
> Freshman, but then again, maybe my memory has exaggerated it). I
> figure I
> could always give a synopsis for each of the skipped chapters.
>
> Anyway, blasphemous as the question is, what chapters do ye learned scholars
> feel could be reluctantly skipped over (summarized by me) without
> losing the
> core essence of the tale?
>
> TTFN,
> David
>
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