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." 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? Optional Rewrites are due today!

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 Thursday, October 23rd

Put Sonnet 79 through Helen Vendler's questions

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

For: Paper Assigment #1, [Click Here]

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

Reread Act V . Work on your Midterm Takehome Exam. For a printable copy of the Midterm Takehome exam, [Click Here]

For Thursday, October 9th

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

Also: Imagine for yourself how you would stage Act 4; Scene 2 in our classroom. What cues do you find in the dialogue that suggest what the stage should look like when the scene opens? What props might you want to bring in? Where are the characters in relation to each other? what kind of costumes might they be wearing?

For Tuesday, October 7th

Midterm Papers Due! Skim Acts 3 and 4 of Twelfth Night.

For Thursday, October 3rd

Reread Twelfth Night, Act two and three 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]

For 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.

Look up one unfamiliar word or word used in an unfamiliar way in the OED. Write up the definition you think is appropriate and a brief explanation of how the word helped you to understand the play's dialogue.

For Tuesday, Sept. 25th:

Read the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

Informal assignment due: at least 2 paragraphs evaluating sentence and solas in the pardoner's 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]

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]