For Thursday, you’ll want to code Joyce’s “Two Gallants” for characterization. What does this mean?
First, review our notion of “characterization.” Next, consult this guide to coding for character traits.
Once you feel you’re up to speed on characterization and coding, you’ll have to code the short story by annotating it. To annotate – – as I did with the first paragraph of “Two Gallants” – – you’ll use hypothesis. This is a really easy-to-use online annotation tool. Here are the instructions for how to start annotating. You’ll be making your annotations on the full text of “Two Gallants.”
Make at least five characterization codings on the text of “Two Gallants.” Don’t double up; if somebody has already coded a piece of text, move on and find something new to code.
Try to finish this up by Saturday (9/30).
For Tuesday (10/3), you’ll want to do the same thing – – made five codings – – on the text of Joyce’s “An Encounter.”
The purpose of this work is to get some practice reading for characterization. Normally, we’d do a lot of this work in class. However, since we’re hybrid and we’re falling a bit behind, we’ll have to get some practice online.
If you have questions or concerns or etc. – – reach out to me at lhanley@sfsu.edu.