a. Benson's Flipped Classroom (葉丙成教授 翻轉教室)-- He films his online video for every course every week. Student would watch the videos in their spare time due to their care on grade. They go to the real classroom for only asking questions and discussion.
>> Student would care about their grades because they care what they could learn and how they could improve themselves. If they didn't care, even you want to let them all pass, they would still ignore this information.
b. If you can rock the children, you can make them learn.
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B. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Notes on Moby-Dick)
a. Issue Discussion
(a) Lincoln's leadership-- The task of finding Moby-Dick is about how a leader lead all the crews. When Captain Ahab was looking for Moby-Dick, he was a totalitarian. He chose to let his ambitions cover all his mind.
(b) The relationship between Moby-Dick and crews is just like following issues--
1. people v.s. society 2. people v.s. environment 3. people v.s. people
(c) After Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, he felt that he doesn't merely want to be a best-selling author. He wanted to change because he cared.
(d) Video sharing
1. Keywords-- allegory, parable, and autobiography
* allegory-- An allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.
* parable-- A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles.
2. Ishmael is just like an outcast in the Bible. He didn't get involved with anything; on the contrary, he merely wrote down all the story and watched the whole event coldly.
3. No matter it's Nathaniel Hawthorne or Herman Melville, they all mentioned the concept of evil.
b. Naturalism-- heredity and environment
* Naturalism-- It was a literary movement or tendency from the 1880s to 1930s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
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C. Book Discussion on Moby-Dick (PDF) and "Young Goodman Brown"(Textbook)
World Literature Made Simple file (P.170, P.171)
a. Epical-- Which means Melville's works always got some characteristics of epic.
b. This is not just a captain's or Pequod's journey. It involves captain's leadership and crews' personality. e.g. Captain Ahab is a irrational leader (hostile); on the other hand, Starbuck is a rational crew (benevolent).
Textbook
a. "Young Goodman Brown" was also used allegory which one stands for the rest of all to finish it.
* "One stands for the rest of all" can also called synecdoche which is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something. e.g. A medieval drama－ Everyman -- on P.619
b. "Pink ribbon" represents innocence. -- on P.620
c. Goodman uses the way of evil snake to describe the old man. -- on P.621
d. It's an initiation journey. It's a stern and sad journey as well. -- on P.628
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D. Book Discussion on Edgar Allan Poe
World Literature Made Simple file (P.168, P.169)
a. Edgar Allan Poe's position in American literature is "Father of American short story" because his "Philosophy of Composition".
b. He is an author of typical romanticism who emphasize on beauty and truth.
c. He thinks that a poem shouldn't be didactic but it should have its own brief and one setting.
* brief, one setting, and no didactic
Textbook- "The Raven"
a. Edgar Allan Poe uses alliteration which is to repeat sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words such as "weak and weary" and "nodded, nearly napping". -- on P.688
b. His collection of short stories also effects the Magic Realism in the later period such as
William Faulkner.
* There is always a central topic in Modernism, but there won't be one in Postmodernism.
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E. Vocabulary
a. hostile and malignant-- "Mal" stands for vicious such as malign and malevolent.
b. indifferent-- careless or show less concern
c. twist-- It can be used in describing a human's personality.
d. gloom-- It is an onometopoeia.
e. infamous = notorious
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