English homework

· “ Stichomythia”

Assignments or Assessments:

One Major Assignment. One Journal Assignment. One Discussion board post and responses.

One reading quiz on the readings for this week.

Supporting Documents:

· eBooks

· Checklist:

· Read lesson material/watch videos

· Complete annotation

· Complete the discussion board posts and the responses

· Complete the one reading quiz

· Submit major assignment

The textbooks for this class are all open access, which means you can access them by clicking on the hyperlink. No need to purchase or pay for it.

· British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclasical. Edited by Bonnie J. Robinson and Laura J. Getty. Publisher: University of North Georgia Press. ISBN: 978-1-940771-28-1.

· British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Edited by Bonnie J. Robinson. Publisher: University of North Georgia Press. ISBN: 978-1-940771-11-3.

· Abrahms, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms

WeekFourpleasereadcarefully.docx

Week Four

This week you will read a selection of literary works from the Victorian Age to the twentieth century. Student Learning Outcomes Addressed:

· Identify key ideas, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.

· Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.

Core Competencies Addressed:

· Biographical, historical and literary analysis

Readings: Essay One Instructions, Sample student paper, and rubric.

Start work on Literary Analysis Essay

From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 2: The Victorian Age

· Intro: The Victorian Movement in Literature, pages 286-289.

· Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses,” pages 337-338, and 351-353.

· Robert Browning, “The Last Duchess,” pages 429- 430, and 431-433.

· Charles Dickens, from Hardtimes, Chapters 1-4, pages 596-615.

From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 3: Twentieth Century and Beyond

· Intro-Modernism and Postmodernism as Literary Movements, pages, 878-885

· Virginia Woolf, “A Room of one’s Own,” Chapter 1

· T. S. Eliot, “The Wasteland,” only "The Burial of the Dead," pages 1086-89

· Samuel Beckett, 1106-1108, follow the link to read Act I of Waiting for Godot.

From A Glossary of Literary Terms

· Dramatic monologue, pages 96-97

· Stream of consciousness, pages 378-379

· Literature of the Absurd, pages, 1-3

· “ Stichomythia”

Assignments or Assessments:

One Major Assignment. One Journal Assignment. One Discussion board post and responses.

One reading quiz on the readings for this week.

Supporting Documents:

· eBooks

· Checklist:

· Read lesson material/watch videos

· Complete annotation

· Complete the discussion board posts and the responses

· Complete the one reading quiz

· Submit major assignment

The textbooks for this class are all open access, which means you can access them by clicking on the hyperlink. No need to purchase or pay for it.

· British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclasical. Edited by Bonnie J. Robinson and Laura J. Getty. Publisher: University of North Georgia Press. ISBN: 978-1-940771-28-1.

· British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Edited by Bonnie J. Robinson. Publisher: University of North Georgia Press. ISBN: 978-1-940771-11-3.

· Abrahms, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms

week4discussion.docx

Discussion Board 5: The Victorian Age and Modernist Age

For this discussion board, you will choose any one of the following prompts. Once you have made your selection, please draft your initial post based on the instructions below.

b. How does the matching of sound and meaning in “Ulysses,” for example, affect your understanding of the poem? Particularly consider its last stanza.

c. Does Dickens offer a coherent social program or political vision in this novel in the four chapters you read? Remember to use textual evidence to back up your answer.

d. Why does Woolf claim that, in order to write fiction, a woman must have a room of her own? How do women writers’ situations differ from those of their male counterparts?

e. Why does T. S. Eliot use so many allusions in this poem, do you think? How does he use them? What’s the effect of his using them?

f. What, if any, absurd dramatic and/or thematic elements does Waiting for Godot possess? Why, and to what effect? Read the characteristics of the T heatre of the Absurd here.

WeekFourpleasereadcarefully.docx

Week Four

This week you will read a selection of literary works from the Victorian Age to the twentieth century. Student Learning Outcomes Addressed:

· Identify key ideas, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.

· Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.

Core Competencies Addressed:

· Biographical, historical and literary analysis

Readings: Essay One Instructions, Sample student paper, and rubric.

Start work on Literary Analysis Essay

From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 2: The Victorian Age

· Intro: The Victorian Movement in Literature, pages 286-289.

· Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses,” pages 337-338, and 351-353.

· Robert Browning, “The Last Duchess,” pages 429- 430, and 431-433.

· Charles Dickens, from Hardtimes, Chapters 1-4, pages 596-615.

From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 3: Twentieth Century and Beyond

· Intro-Modernism and Postmodernism as Literary Movements, pages, 878-885

· Virginia Woolf, “A Room of one’s Own,” Chapter 1

· T. S. Eliot, “The Wasteland,” only "The Burial of the Dead," pages 1086-89

· Samuel Beckett, 1106-1108, follow the link to read Act I of Waiting for Godot.

From A Glossary of Literary Terms

· Dramatic monologue, pages 96-97

· Stream of consciousness, pages 378-379

· Literature of the Absurd, pages, 1-3

· “ Stichomythia”

Assignments or Assessments:

One Major Assignment. One Journal Assignment. One Discussion board post and responses.

One reading quiz on the readings for this week.

Supporting Documents:

· eBooks

· Checklist:

· Read lesson material/watch videos

· Complete annotation

· Complete the discussion board posts and the responses

· Complete the one reading quiz

· Submit major assignment

The textbooks for this class are all open access, which means you can access them by clicking on the hyperlink. No need to purchase or pay for it.

· British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclasical. Edited by Bonnie J. Robinson and Laura J. Getty. Publisher: University of North Georgia Press. ISBN: 978-1-940771-28-1.

· British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Edited by Bonnie J. Robinson. Publisher: University of North Georgia Press. ISBN: 978-1-940771-11-3.

· Abrahms, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms

week4discussion.docx

Discussion Board 5: The Victorian Age and Modernist Age

For this discussion board, you will choose any one of the following prompts. Once you have made your selection, please draft your initial post based on the instructions below.

b. How does the matching of sound and meaning in “Ulysses,” for example, affect your understanding of the poem? Particularly consider its last stanza.

c. Does Dickens offer a coherent social program or political vision in this novel in the four chapters you read? Remember to use textual evidence to back up your answer.

d. Why does Woolf claim that, in order to write fiction, a woman must have a room of her own? How do women writers’ situations differ from those of their male counterparts?

e. Why does T. S. Eliot use so many allusions in this poem, do you think? How does he use them? What’s the effect of his using them?

f. What, if any, absurd dramatic and/or thematic elements does Waiting for Godot possess? Why, and to what effect? Read the characteristics of the T heatre of the Absurd here.

WeekFourpleasereadcarefully.docx

Week Four

This week you will read a selection of literary works from the Victorian Age to the twentieth century. Student Learning Outcomes Addressed:

· Identify key ideas, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.

· Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.

Core Competencies Addressed:

· Biographical, historical and literary analysis

Readings: Essay One Instructions, Sample student paper, and rubric.

Start work on Literary Analysis Essay

From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 2: The Victorian Age

· Intro: The Victorian Movement in Literature, pages 286-289.

· Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses,” pages 337-338, and 351-353.

· Robert Browning, “The Last Duchess,” pages 429- 430, and 431-433.

· Charles Dickens, from Hardtimes, Chapters 1-4, pages 596-615.

From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 3: Twentieth Century and Beyond

· Intro-Modernism and Postmodernism as Literary Movements, pages, 878-885

· Virginia Woolf, “A Room of one’s Own,” Chapter 1

· T. S. Eliot, “The Wasteland,” only "The Burial of the Dead," pages 1086-89

· Samuel Beckett, 1106-1108, follow the link to read Act I of Waiting for Godot.

From A Glossary of Literary Terms

· Dramatic monologue, pages 96-97

· Stream of consciousness, pages 378-379

· Literature of the Absurd, pages, 1-3

· “ Stichomythia”

Assignments or Assessments:

One Major Assignment. One Journal Assignment. One Discussion board post and responses.

One reading quiz on the readings for this week.

Supporting Documents:

· eBooks