Reminders: Cat's Cradle reading through Chapter 79 due on Thursday. You will need to finish the book for Monday. Also, you will need to get a copy of Things Fall apart in time for you to have your first reading assignment done by Wednsday, May 25th.
Your final essay assignment will be due on Wednesday, June 8th. Details of the assignment are here.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Prose Passage Analysis
Please print and read "Question 2", which is a prose passage. Then write an essay in 40 minutes in which you respond to the prompt.
Click here for the passage.
The copy is not great, but please do the best you can.
Bring your essay with you to class on Thursday.
Click here for the passage.
The copy is not great, but please do the best you can.
Bring your essay with you to class on Thursday.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Open Ended Prompts to practice
Here is a document with some open ended prompts to practice. It's a good idea to think about how you would answer these questions with specific plot details and to practice coming up with insights and causality statements for why the prompt topic is important.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Due 3/4
Chapters 1-8 of Wuthering Heights. If you did not purchase your book, the library has them available for checkout. Also, if you're desperate, there is an annotated online copy available here.
Some hopefully useful background:
Wuthering Heights is told non-linearly, which means that it will make extensive use of flashbacks. The story is first narrated in the first person by a wealthy man named Lockwood, who is renting a house, Thrushcross Grange, from a man named Heathcliff, who also owns and lives at a house called Wuthering Heights (hereafter WH). We meet two younger people living at WH when Lockwood makes a journey there, who are children of people who have died—during your reading you should be able to figure out who they are related to. After a second visit to WH, Lockwood falls ill and must spend time convalescing, at which point he asks his housekeeper, Ellen (also called Nelly or Mrs. Dean) about the people currently living at WH since she used to work as a servant there. Nelly then begins a flashback towards the beginning of chapter 4 with her as the first person narrator which tells us the back story that resulted in odd set of circumstances that Lockwood witnesses at WH.
As you do your reading, make analytical note of:
-The use of symbolic environments—descriptions of houses and the outdoors
- Issues of class—manners, clothing, speak, appearance,
- Character identity—sense of self, characterization, etc.
Some hopefully useful background:
Wuthering Heights is told non-linearly, which means that it will make extensive use of flashbacks. The story is first narrated in the first person by a wealthy man named Lockwood, who is renting a house, Thrushcross Grange, from a man named Heathcliff, who also owns and lives at a house called Wuthering Heights (hereafter WH). We meet two younger people living at WH when Lockwood makes a journey there, who are children of people who have died—during your reading you should be able to figure out who they are related to. After a second visit to WH, Lockwood falls ill and must spend time convalescing, at which point he asks his housekeeper, Ellen (also called Nelly or Mrs. Dean) about the people currently living at WH since she used to work as a servant there. Nelly then begins a flashback towards the beginning of chapter 4 with her as the first person narrator which tells us the back story that resulted in odd set of circumstances that Lockwood witnesses at WH.
As you do your reading, make analytical note of:
-The use of symbolic environments—descriptions of houses and the outdoors
- Issues of class—manners, clothing, speak, appearance,
- Character identity—sense of self, characterization, etc.
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