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Significant World Writers
Class Discussion

ornamental line

"Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see
the comical side of the universe" (167-68)

Flannery O'Connor's "Novelist and Unbeliever"



Prepare
: read text & P.O.R.s carefully before class

Speak: share your ideas, supported by textual examples

Write: practice active listening--take notes and create marginalia

Respond: argue, ask questions, and propose alternatives to others' ideas


A lawn with a vast number of people in brightly colored clothing.
Colorful Life (1907)
Wassily Kandinsky

 


Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu