Email your partner your working thesis and outline by 12:30 pm, when we start class. The peer review should be emailed to your partner (cc’ Gianna!) by Friday, April 10, 5 pm. I encourage you to use classtime to work on your peer review.
Here are your assigned pairs:
Ella and Max
Sophie and Christine
Denise and Naia
Samiha and Misha
Annie and Giovanna
Alyssa and Dawn
Giselle and John
Edwin and Clara
Cecily and Emily
Alexis and Sally
Valeria and Sofia
Margarita and Ivy
Daniel and Carolina
Howard and Carla
Next week, we will be reading a section of The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister. Anne Lister (1791-1840) was a well-to-do English woman who kept diaries throughout her life. A substantial portion of these diaries were written in a code that she invented herself. The secret parts of her writing, once deciphered over a century later, revealed that she was writing about an intense lesbian romantic and sexual life. The sentences in italics in your reader are those that were originally written in code. At the end of the excerpt in the reader, you will see a scan of an actual page of the diary, which will give you an idea of what the code looks like. There is also a film biopic, which covers a slightly different period of Anne Lister’s life, also called The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister, which can be seen on Amazon Prime if you have access to an account.
Homework:
- Read the excerpts from The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister in your reader and highlight passages with color coded markers or pencils: which passages surprise or shock you? Which passages confirm your assumptions about life for women in 19th century England? Which passages make you laugh?
- Revise your working thesis and outline, making use of the feedback from your peer review. Submit this revision on bcourses by Saturday April 11 at midnight.
- Write 1 body paragraph of your Analytical Essay 2.
Translating Women 