Please read all of my notes carefully; please, as well, read last week’s notes in full. There are a few things due:  last week’s summary, this week’s summary, and you must read all of the excerpts from Flow. All will be attached, below and in previous posts. Make sure you are keeping up or there will be a quiz.

ENGL 2150 Class XVI. notes Happiness Revisited

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow

(Here, make sure to read Ch.1, the essay entitled “Happiness Revisited”; as well, make sure, at the very least, then to read the section labeled “Enjoyment and  the Quality of Life” which goes from pgs. 52 to 76)

Watch the video, below, and think on Camus’s notion that thinking readdresses how an individual sees her world.

Banksy Enters Disneyland

Class Notes:  CLASS NOTES baruch engl 2150 spr 2013 4 17 13

* New Reading:  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow

Find this week’s creative summaries, below:

In case you missed this class’s handout, find it here (or in your e-mail inbox):

ENGL 2150 spr 2013 rev 3 handout. camus summaries

And here are today’s notes:

ENGL 2150 Notes on Camus and the Absurd

ENGL 2150. class XIII Notes on Camus and The Myth o Sisyphus

ENGL 2150 summary exp and creative handout. 2013

As we switch gears and go into creative and/or expository summary modums (please read the handout care/fully), make sure you are actively reading, annotating, and engaging these next few texts, creatively and critically. No question should go unwritten or unasked. As well, find the new yet same reading attached, below.

Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus

(This time, read from the Preface to the end of the essay, “An Absurd Reasoning”.)

Sisyphus

CLASS XI Notes. 3.20.13

ENGL 2150. spr 2013 class 12

Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus

(From the above text, only read the actual “Myth of Sisyphus” which begins on pg. 75 — halfway down — and ends on pg. 78 — 3/4 of the way down. It is only four pages, in total. Later, we will read the essay/section titled, “An Absurd Reasoning”. )