Dracula: Chapters 26-27; Portfolio; An Author's Purpose
LAB: (Until 8:00)
Portfolios are due January 18 (or January 19*); please use your time in the lab to work on your portfolios. Requirements include:
Dracula Summary:
Chapter 26: This is the climax of our novel. Mina calculates Dracula's possible escape routes back to his castle and the hunters split up to pursue. Mina and Van Helsing take a train, Arthur and Harker take a steamboat, while Seward and Quincey, in cowboy fashion, take horses. Van Helsing and Mina travel quickly to head Dracula off at his castle.
Chapter 27: Our climax continues. At Borgo Pass, Van Helsing finds that he can no longer hypnotize Mina--and thus, they have no more advantage in finding the Count. Van Helsing protects Mina with a ring of holy communion wafers, as they are haunted by the 3 vampire women Harker met in chapter 4. The three women are an unholy trinity, a perversion of the 3 women who visit Jesus' biblical tomb. Van Helsing manages to defeat the vampire ladies, then seals Dracula's tomb. Mina and Van Helsing are further plagued by snowfall and packs of wolves, but manage to watch the final battle. Seward, Quincey, Arthur, and Jonathan stop the gypsies helping Dracula; they battle, Dracula arises and Quincey is fatally wounded. Dracula is defeated finally, and Mina's mark vanishes. The denouement is told by Harker seven years later, with Mina now a mother to their son, Quincey (jr.).
FOR NEXT CLASS: Please sign up on the article list to read the article in the commentary section of your edition of Dracula. For the test, you should be familiar with characters, major plot points, setting, gothic elements, and be aware of how the novel has affected our popular culture (and/or fear of foreigners).
CLASSROOM: Reading.
Every time we write we are doing a combination of things. Our purpose in writing may be entertainment, but in doing so, we usually do one or more of the following:
Portfolios are due January 18 (or January 19*); please use your time in the lab to work on your portfolios. Requirements include:
- 1. Reflection of your writing progress (not a critique of the class...)
- 2. A gothic inspired story
- 3. An epistolary (multiple perspective) story or a television script or a short story or essay regarding pop culture (including gun violence, allusion to pop culture references or fads, a type of essay, previously discussed stream of consciousness, various pieces created from in-class prompts and prompts from the blog, etc.)
- 4. A revision
- Gothic stories deal with the gradual corruption of an otherwise innocent character.
- They use recognizable tropes; for a list see: the glossary of literary gothic terms
- See previous posts regarding Gothic literature; use Dracula as a model as well...
- All stories have a beginning, middle, and end; a draft is not really complete unless it has this--but a draft does not necessarily have to be complete...
- Check blog posts: Nov. 20 (horror discussion/Poe), Dec. 11, Dec. 15, Dec. 19, Dec. 21
- See previous posts about pop culture: Dec. 5, Dec. 7, Dec. 11, Dec. 19, Jan. 2
- See previous posts about television script writing: Nov. 29
- See post: Nov. 16, Nov. 20, Dec. 2, Dec. 7, Dec. 11, Dec. 13, Dec. 15, Dec. 19, Dec. 21
Dracula Summary:
Chapter 26: This is the climax of our novel. Mina calculates Dracula's possible escape routes back to his castle and the hunters split up to pursue. Mina and Van Helsing take a train, Arthur and Harker take a steamboat, while Seward and Quincey, in cowboy fashion, take horses. Van Helsing and Mina travel quickly to head Dracula off at his castle.
Chapter 27: Our climax continues. At Borgo Pass, Van Helsing finds that he can no longer hypnotize Mina--and thus, they have no more advantage in finding the Count. Van Helsing protects Mina with a ring of holy communion wafers, as they are haunted by the 3 vampire women Harker met in chapter 4. The three women are an unholy trinity, a perversion of the 3 women who visit Jesus' biblical tomb. Van Helsing manages to defeat the vampire ladies, then seals Dracula's tomb. Mina and Van Helsing are further plagued by snowfall and packs of wolves, but manage to watch the final battle. Seward, Quincey, Arthur, and Jonathan stop the gypsies helping Dracula; they battle, Dracula arises and Quincey is fatally wounded. Dracula is defeated finally, and Mina's mark vanishes. The denouement is told by Harker seven years later, with Mina now a mother to their son, Quincey (jr.).
FOR NEXT CLASS: Please sign up on the article list to read the article in the commentary section of your edition of Dracula. For the test, you should be familiar with characters, major plot points, setting, gothic elements, and be aware of how the novel has affected our popular culture (and/or fear of foreigners).
- "His Hour Upon the Stage": Theatrical Adaptations of Dracula (theatrical criticism)
- Vampires in the Light (film criticism)
- Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula (feminist criticism)
- Dracula: The Unseen Face in the Mirror (literary criticism/psychological criticism)
- A Capital Dracula (Marxist criticism)
- "Kiss Me With Those Red Lips: Gender and Inversion" (gender criticism)
- The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization (postcolonial criticism/cultural studies)
- "A Wilde Desire Took Me: The Homoerotic History of Dracula" (queer criticism/gender criticism)
Please send me your shared links to your Popular Culture Prezi's in the comment section of this post; Pop Culture Presentations already turned in (authors: check the link to make sure your work is shared...) are listed here...:
CLASSROOM: Reading.
Every time we write we are doing a combination of things. Our purpose in writing may be entertainment, but in doing so, we usually do one or more of the following:
- Narration: telling a story; reporting or summarizing a sequence of events (plot), explaining something.
- Description: using specific diction (imagery) to make information more clear or vivid.
- Exemplification: illustrating ideas with examples to make something abstract more concrete, representing a larger concept or event by a single incident or image (support).
- Definition: eliminating confusion or ambiguity by clarifying a term or idea; challenging conventional meanings or thoughts.
- Classification: dividing or outlining an idea into separate parts; organizing into categories; making distinctions; examining an issue from a variety of sides.
- Compare/Contrast: finding similarities and/or differences among things or ideas.
- Persuasion: convincing someone an opinion is correct; defending a position or idea.
TASK: Identify the type of essay for 5 of the 6 essays we read today in class. Hand in your answers wherever we are at the end of class.
"The Changing Face of America" by Haya El Nasser
"Dawn & Mary" by Brian Doyle
"True Colors" by Christine Granados
"More Equal Than Others" by Rebecca Solnit
"Britney Spears: The Pop Tart in Winter" by Adam Sternbergh & "On Celebrity" by Ellen Degeneres.
David Sterritt: "Face of an Angel"
HOMEWORK: Read the Dracula essay you signed up for. Study for the Dracula exam. Complete your Pop Culture Prezi projects (this will be delivered to the class Jan. 16); prepare your portfolio (due Jan. 18).
HOMEWORK: Read the Dracula essay you signed up for. Study for the Dracula exam. Complete your Pop Culture Prezi projects (this will be delivered to the class Jan. 16); prepare your portfolio (due Jan. 18).
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