Assignments

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For Thursday, December 4

Read all of the poems in Part 2: Section 1 ("The Journey") of Outside History. Pay particular attention to "Mise Eire" and "The Emigrant Irish"

Find 1 additional source for your group project assignment

Drafts of Final Paper are due today if you would like written feedback, a grade, and the option to revise

For Tuesday, December 2

Read all of the poems in Section 2 of Outside History

Find 2 sources for your Group Project assignment

For a printable text version of the Group Project assignment, [Click Here]

For a printable text version of the Final Paper Assignent, [Click Here]

For Tuesday, November 25

Finish Hard Times; Quiz on Vol 3.

Read Eavan Boland's "The Achill Woman" and "The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish." Be sure to bring your edition of Boland's Outside History to Class.

For Thursday, November 13

Read Hard Times, Vol 1.  Expect a Quiz!

For Thursday, November 6

Finish Sense and Sensibility and expect a quiz!

For Tuesday, November 4

Read Sense and Sensibility, through Vol 3; ch. 5 . Trace the connections the narrator and characters make between feelings and health in this section of the novel.

For Thursday, October 30

Read Sense and Sensibility, through Vol 2: ch. 9 (or ch. 31 if your edition doesn't divide the book by volumes).

Trace the narrator's perspective on the subject of expressing feelings. Whose point of view does the narrator seem to occupy? Or does the narrator stand outside of individual characters' perspectives and judge behavior? Or does the narrator's perspective change?

For Tuesday, October 28

Read Sense and Sensibility, Vol. 1

Read Appendix B; #1 pp 386-389 & #5 403-406.

Look up the words "Sense" and "Sensibilty" on the Oxford English Dictionary.

For: Paper Assigment #1, [Click Here]

For Thursday, October 23rd

Put Sonnet 79 through Helen Vendler's questions

Work on your essay 1 revision, which is due Tuesday, October 28th.

For Tuesday, October 21st

For Thursday, October 16th

Reread Feste's song in Act V; Read Sonnets, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" and "My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." Put each poem through the questions on Helen Vendler's guide. To print a copy of her questins, [Click Here]

For Tuesday, October 14th

There will be NO CLASS today. Work on your Midterm Takehome Exam. For a printable copy of the Midterm Takehome exam, [Click Here]

Read Acts IV-V of Twelfth Night. Come with answers to each of the questions on the Study Guide.

For Tuesday, October 7: Reread Act III; Read Act IV of Twelfth Night.

Imagine for yourself how you would stage Act 4; Scene 2 in our classroom. What props would you need?

For Thursday, October 2th

Midterm paper due

Read Twelfth Night Act three.

For Tuesday, Sept. 30

Reread Twelfth Night, Act One and read Act Two at least twice

Finish the annotation we started in class. If you would like some further instruction on how to do the annotation, see the handout here: [Click Here]

or Thursday, Sept 27th

Read Twefth Night, Act One at least twice

for yourselves: write brief summaries of each scene. write a couple of sentences about each new character within a scene. try to keep track of how characters are related to each other.

For Tuesday, Sept. 25th:

Read Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

Go to the OED online (from this website, http://www.lib.umb.edu/find/databases/ click on O and then Oxford English Dictionary) and look up one unfamiliar word (or word used in an unfamiliar way), write down its definition and a brief explanation of how knowing the definition of the word might impact your understanding of the tale. For the Handout to the Pardoner's Tale, [Click Here]

For Thursday, Sept. 18th:

Read The Miller's Prologue and Tale

For the Handout on The Miller's Tale, [Click Here]

Informal assignment due: at least 2 paragraphs evaluating sentence and solas in the miller's tale.

For Tuesday Sept 16th:

Read: The Clerk's Tale (also known as The Oxford Scholar's Tale) and prepare answers to discussion questions

For Discussion Questions, [Click Here]

Read: Source Material for Oxford Scholar’s Tale:

Petrarch’s Tale of Griselda

http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/petrarch/pet-gris.html

For Thursday Sept 11th

Read: Wife of Bath's Tale and prepare answers to discussion questions from handout above

For Tuesday Sept 9th:

Read: Wife of Bath's Prologue and use class handouts to prepare for class discussion

Handouts from Thursday, Sept 4th:

1. Handout on Wife of Bath's Prologue: [Click Here]

2. Handout on Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale: [Click Here]