Cyber-Assignment 1 & 2

Today we reviewed Essay 2, on Wit. The essays are due now.

Homework is to read the four selections in 40 Short Stories and choose one story to analyze in 250 words.

For Thursday, chose another story (of the four) and do the same. Post it here.

Homework for Thursday, April 24, 2014, is to choose 1-2 stories with similar themes (your choice) and using one of the essay forms in Reading and Writing about Literature, write a 3-4 page essay, not including a works cited page. Use one citation per page. Find two other literary and/or scholarly resource in the library database or library.

It goes without saying that the MLA should be perfect (smile).

Complete an annotation for both articles. Include with the portfolio for the essay. The essay is due, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 in class. Make sure it is your best writing.

We will write an in class essay next week on one of the stories.

Here is a recap of OWL Purdue links for Revisions:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/2/65/

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/690/1/

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/690/01/

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/635/01/

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/574/02/ (It is always best to connect the ideas. Conjunctions fail when the ideas are not related.)

Have a great Spring Break! Complete your essays. Due: the essay on W;t. Bring your books to class when we meet again: Reading and Writing about Literature and 40 Short Stories and Virgin Soul.

Today in class we practiced annotations. See https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/ and for an example https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

We read the essay:  Giraldi, William. "The Art of Reading John Donne." Poets & Writers. 38.2 (2010): 31. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 8 April 2014.

Together we did an annotation and shared the various parts.

For Thursday, bring in a paper copy of your essay on the play W;t. Bring it in electronically as well.

Choose from one of the 23 prompts that work as essay questions. They all do not. Write a 4-5 page essay, similar in form to the essay on I and You and Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself."

Also make sure you include three sources in the references.Here is a link to the questions: http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~charris/Drama%20Study%20Questions/Wit2.doc

See Gardner, "Writing about Plays" (111). You might also want to look at "Literary Criticism and Literary Theory" (166).

Last week we reviewed student essays, had a marvelous Library Orientation which some skipped--you really missed great resources. We also spoke about today's in-class essay assignment on W;t, the play.

There was confusion on the W:t Cyber-Assignment about the film which no one completed. It is still outstanding.