Day 1: Exam review, Let's get started, Kipling & Outpost of Progress

1. This class --> review expectations sheet
2. Exam feedback

• How was the exam?
• Did you feel prepared?
• Did you feel the exam was fair, overall?

3. Writing feedback (strengths//challenges)

• Structure --> mastering organization // transitions & structure complementing argument
• Arguments --> getting more complex ideas // need to narrow (don't take on too much)
• Analysis --> more explanation + close readings // when argument is BIG, analysis suffer; more HOW + close reading needed
• Intros/Conclusions --> getting hang of it // conclusions

4. Looking at exams (How can you make your argument stronger?)

GOOD

1. Characters who don't conform are isolated and dehumanized.
2. Characters who don't conform are alienated from family and society.

BETTER

1. New identities are forces upon character who don't conform, weakening their sense of self and making them feel useless.
2. In these texts, we see non-conforming characters being isolated from their societies, destroying their identities to make them fit into existing hierarchy.

BEST

1. Vicious cycle: Striving to be accepted, characters' identities are destroyed, which isolates them from their society, leaving them to be resigned to their fate.

5. "White Man's Burden" (Kipling)

• Why are we reading this? Colonial era, colonial text. Published within two years of Outpost.
• What's the tone? Intention?
• Recall Imperialism! How does imperialism relate to systems you wrote about in exam?
• Systemic Hierarchies! How is poem related to systems?

6. "Outpost of Progress" (Joseph Conrad)

• First paragraph --> make observations about setting, narrator, tone, mood character.