Freshmal
Aural-Oral Training Spring 2002
Please see Fall
2001 syllabus for basic information about this course.
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Spring 2002 Poetry for memorization and prose for reading aloud handout
Listening
assignment for 2/20-2/27: A
Moment of Science
Poetry:
Ding, dong bell and the English translation of Ladybug for recitation;
read up on Mother Goose; prepare biographical information on James
Joyce and vocabulary for his poem, On the Beach At Fontana.
Performance: Prepare to read aloud your
imitation of a recorded spoken passage in English.
Listening assignment for 2/27-3/6: Newjack:
Guarding Sing Sing (I of II)
Poetry: On the Beach
At Fontana by James Joyce; prepare Learning by Judith Viorst.
Performance: Prepare to read aloud your
imitation of a recorded spoken passage in English.
Listening assignment for 3/6-3/13: Newjack:
Guarding Sing Sing (II of II)
Poetry: Learning
by Judith Viorst; prepare Sheep in Fog by Sylvia Plath.
Listening assignment for 3/13-3/20: National
Public Radio Morning Edition: Recycling Computers
Poetry: Sheep in Fog by Sylvia
Plath; prepare To a Friend by Amy Lowell.
Listening assignment for 3/20-3/27:
The Joy of Baking: Making Scones,
with Stephani Jaworski (RealPlayer Video)
Poetry: To a Friend by Amy Lowell.;
prepare Lullaby by Eve Merriam.
Listening
assignment for 3-27-4/10:
BBC
Update on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,
Thursday April 4, 2002
Poetry: Lullaby by Eve Merriam;
prepare Sonnet 76 by William Shakespeare.
Listening
assignment for 4/10-17:
Popular Song: Laurie
Poetry: Sonnet 76 by William Shakespeare;
prepare The Cutting Edge by Frances FitzGerald.
Listening
assignment for 4/17-24:
The Sound of Your Voice
by Carol Fleming.
Prose reading: The Cutting Edge
by
Frances FitzGerald; prepare
Gazing
at the Sacred Peak by
Tu Fu;
find the original Chinese.
Listening
assignment for 4/2-5/8:
Alice's Restaurant
by Arlo Guthrie
Poetry: Gazing at the Sacred Peak by
Tu Fu; prepare Pine Tree Tops by Gary Snyder
Listening
assignment for 5/8-5/15:
Gunsmoke (I)
Poetry: Pine Tree Tops by Gary Snyder;
prepare Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part by Michael
Drayton
Listening
assignment for 5/15-5/22:
Gunsmoke
(II)
Poetry: Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss
and Part by Michael Drayton; prepare Three Days by James
R. Gilmore
Listening
assignment for 5/22-29:
The Angel
Poetry: Three Days by James R. Gilmore;
prepare Plea for a Captive by William Stanley Merwin
Listening
assignment for 5/29-6/5:
:
Elder Rage (I)
Poetry: Quotes from: Franz Kafka
and Henry Van Dyke; prepare In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My
Father by Gwendolyn Brooks
Listening
assignment for 6/5-6/11:
Elder Rage (II)
Poetry: In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My
Father by Gwendolyn Brooks; prepare: Was There a Time by Dylan
Thomas