English, journalism and media lessons

Monday, July 31, 2017

To Autumn : BY JOHN KEATS

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,

Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,

Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Click: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/to-autumn

Important links for Romantic Poetry: Poem by William Blake

http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/eng/The_Chimney_Sweeper

THE POEMS

Songs of Innocence:

The Chimney Sweeper

When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep![1]
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,
That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved: so I said,
"Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."

And so he was quiet; and that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight, -
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.

And by came an angel who had a bright key,
And he opened the coffins and set them all free;
Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run,
And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.

Then naked and white, all their bags left behind,
They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind;
And the angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,
He'd have God for his father, and never want joy.

And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark,
And got with our bags and our brushes to work.
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.

Songs of Experience:

THE Chimney Sweeper

A little black thing among the snow,
Crying "'weep! 'weep!" in notes of woe!
"Where are thy father and mother? Say!"--
"They are both gone up to the church to pray.

"Because I was happy upon the heath,
And smiled among the winter's snow,
They clothed me in the clothes of death,
And taught me to sing the notes of woe.

"And because I am happy and dance and sing,
They think they have done me no injury,
And are gone to praise God and his priest and king,
Who make up a heaven of our misery.

The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of two poems by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794.[2] The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late XVIII and XIX Century. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive existence that was socially accepted at the time. In the earlier poem, a young chimney sweeper recounts a dream had by one of his fellows, in which an angel rescues the boys from coffins and takes them to a sunny meadow; in the later poem, an apparently adult speaker encounters a child chimney sweeper abandoned in the snow while his parents are at church or possibly even suffered death where church is referring to being with God.

IENG syllabus

B. TECH. SEMESTER I/II

SUBJECT NAME: INTERACTIVE ENGLISH (IENG)

NO. OF CREDITS: 3

Course Objective:

To read and discuss text of a chosen Shakespearean tragedy and make students familiar with Romantic poetry in English literature so as to help the students enhance their understanding of value of literature in wider socio-historical context by evoking examples from Elizabethan England, the French revolution and Industrial revolution. Thereby to furnish examples from the literary canon to be first emulated and later critiqued in creative and critical writing. At the same time, to hone the skills of students in written communication by working on the vocabulary of students so they can express themselves clearly and persuasively.

Unit –I- Literature

Shakespeare’s Macbeth(story adaptation of play); Romantic poetry- ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by Blake, ‘To Autumn’ by John Keats, 'The Rainbow' by William Wordsworth, ‘Ozymandias’ by PB Shelley, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (text of 1834) –Part-I and Part-II by Samuel Coleridge, Historical context of Romantic poetry-French Revolution and Industrial revolution.

Unit-II-Functional English

Report Writing- hypothesis-evidence-thesis, Proposals/Feasibility and Progress Reports/Memo/Letter formats; Essays/paragraphs; applications; description of objects, appliances, instruments, products, processes.

Unit-III- Critical thinking & Creative Writing

Critical thinking; creative writing exercises; Seven Cs of writing/ Story composition/news reports/ feature writing/verse composition, Paraphrasing poems, comprehending Unseen Passages, writing biographies, art of interviewing, book reviews.

Unit –IV-Semantics and Syntax

Antonyms, synonyms, homophones, words often confused, one word substitutes, word origins, sentence correction/error correction exercises in basic grammar.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course the students will be able to:

· Students are conversant with representative texts of Shakespeare and Romantic poetry. They also understand the historical context of these literary works.

· Students are able to communicate effectively in corporate environment.

· Inculcate critical thinking and demonstrate an ability to articulate their thoughts coherently and creatively.

· Command a better vocabulary and express their thoughts clearly and precisely.

References:

1. Shakespeare Readers. VolumeI. Macbeth.Scholastic India, 2016.

2. Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk.The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy. Oxford UP. 2016

3. Claire McEachern.The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Cambridge UP. 2013

4. RC Sharma and Krishna Mohan. 4^th edition. Business Correspondence and Report Writing. McGraw Hill.

5. Bretag, Crossman, and Bordia. Communictaion Skills.TatMcGraw Hill.2012

6. A.C. Bradley and John Bayley. Shakespearean Tragedy. Penguin Books.1991

Story adapted from Shakespeare's Macbeth:

Source: Shakespeare Readers. Volume I. Macbeth. retold by Aishwarya Subramanian.Scholastic India Pvt.Ltd.2016

Note: Material circulated within blogger circle for BTech Semester I class of YMCAUST, Fbd.students.to supplement library stock.

Thursday, June 22, 2017

MA(Journalism and Mass Communication)

YMCA University of Science & Technology, Faridabad, Haryana

(UGC 12 B 2(f) status; NAAC 'A' grade)

Activities(2016-17):

1.Internships with Sterling publications and Dainik Tribune(Chandigarh) with focus on media writing and editing.

2.Documentary –making and in-house coverage.

3.Blogging

4.Ours students had experience with content development(writing news stories and Press releases)

5.Voice- overs and post-production editing with Dastak India.

6.Learnt Anchoring with BVM.

7.Visit to Thomson printing press

8.Visit to Mughal Gardens

9.Visit to IUAC nuclear accelerator centre, GOI.

Prospects:

CR station access to Community Radio in pipeline(survey complete for LOI).

Highlights:

Production-oriented course.

Facilities:

Language & Media Lab equipped with Coral draw graphics suite and internet facility.

Online Admission Portal link