PDP 150 F06 Section 23

Plan of Week

Week 10

General ASSIGNMENT for Week: This week you will be going on your fourth essay adventure. (500 to 750 words) It just has to be an essay adventure you have not been on before. It does not have to be the fourth of the ten journeys. Pick one that seems interesting to you. Carefully read the essays that apply to the journey. Fully engage them. Analyze the ideas as they may apply to your own journey in life and reflect. Come to a resolution. Formulate your essay carefully. Try to create a significant 1) Hook, provide a 2) Thumbnail of your Theme or Thesis, 3) Develop it carefully with at least three major steps or perhaps engagements of the essays developing in an organic way the results of your analysis and then come to a 4) Climactic Resolution, and 5) Bookend your Hook.

Class 1 Monday October 30, 2006

1. PICKUP — Because we didn't have class Friday I'll be PICKING UP your Hero's Journey essay on the theme: A Life Well-Lived.

2. We'll be starting off on G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy by listening to Dale Ahlquist's EWTN presentation on G.K. Chesterton.

Assignment: Do an Inspectional reading of Orthodoxy. Your objective is to ascertain the overall structure of the book and the pattern of its development. What kind of book is it? Read a bit from each chapter to get the general idea. Make a hardcopy of your Inspectional Reading notes to hand in after the discussion. Keep a copy for yourself or in your Reflective Journal. It will help jog your memory when you write your essay next week.

Class 2 Wednesday November 1, 2006

1. Discuss the inspectional reading. What are the main parts of Orthodoxy?

2. Watch the EWTN presentation on Orthodoxy.

ASSIGNMENT: Collect at least five assertions Chesterton makes that you think are worthy of discussion. Draw them from throughout the book. You can use your inspectional reading to guide you to areas you are interested in.

Class 3 Friday November 3, 2006

DISCUSSION of Orthodoxy assertions. Be prepared to take positions and defend your positions with facts drawn either from Chesterton's text or from your own experience of outside reading. The procedure will be to do TOSSUPS. We'll Tossup an assertion and then try for Pros and Cons on the assertion.

PICKUP: I will pick up your 4^th essay adventure.

NEXT WEEK: Next week's essay will be on meeting Mr. Gilbert Keith Chesterton through the adventure of Orthodoxy. Your objective in the essay is to engage Chesterton's ideas as fully as you can. You should plan to write this essay at some length and try to make your engagement tell a story. For that reason I think the proper length should be 750 to 1200 words.