English Literature II (ILE-1011)

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Week 8

1. Read:

http://faculty.scf.edu/glanvip/Elements%20of%20Drama.htm

2. Watch about Tennessee Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CFdrPD7Bsg

3. Read the Glass Menagerie

http://staff.bcc.edu/faculty_websites/jalexand/Williams--The_Glass_Menagerie.htm

Thursday, February 20, 2014

It's already that time of year: Midterms! So, for this one, you have to write an analysis of the story The Ring by Isak Dinesen (by the way, she is a woman). I want you to write a 5 paragraph essay with quotations both from the story and from outside sources. Use APA format. Work on a good thesis statement and appropriate topic sentences for each paragraph. I want you to work really hard on writing an almost perfect essay. That it's why it is only a 5 paragraph one. The story can be found below. You have to send the essay as a word document to my email. Good luck!

http://www.readfirst.net/ring.html

Grading rubric:

	4	3	2	1
Thesis	· My thesis is a thoughtful and clear argument, which makes a unique claim about the novel. · Acknowledges a counterclaim	· My thesis is a thoughtful argument that makes an interesting claim about the novel.	· My thesis is an argument that may be unoriginal, or too simple.	· My thesis is not an argument or it is not related to my novel.
Structure of Essay	· My introduction clearly includes a short summary, my theories and my thesis. · My body paragraphs each have a main idea/topic sentence · My conclusion clearly summarizes my argument and makes a link/connection to other texts or ideas.	· My introduction mostly includes a short summary, my theories and my thesis. · Most of my body paragraphs have a main idea/topic sentence. · My conclusion summarizes my argument and tries to make a link/ connection to other texts or ideas.	· My introduction may include a short summary, my theories and my thesis, but not all of them. · Some body paragraphs have a main idea/topic sentence. · My conclusion almost summarizes my argument, though it fails to make a connection or there are “loose ends.”	· My introduction may not include a short summary, my theories and my thesis. · Few or none of my body paragraphs have a main idea/topic sentence. · My conclusion does not summarize my argument or brings up new ideas without explanation.
Evidence	· Each paragraph clearly supports my thesis. · My body paragraphs each have 2 or more relevant examples/quotes to support my argument and an analysis/interpretation of how they support it.	· Each paragraph seems to support my thesis. · Most of my body paragraphs include 2 relevant examples/quotes to support my argument and an explanation of how they support it.	· Each paragraph may support my thesis, though not clearly. · My body paragraphs include fewer than 2 examples or quotes to support my argument or they do not explain how the evidence supports it.	· My paragraphs do not support my thesis. · My body paragraphs do not clearly include evidence or the evidence is not relevant to the thesis.
Overall Cohesion & Thoughtfulness	· Overall, my essay clearly communicates my thinking about the text and why the issues raised are important. · My essay shows insight into why those examples chosen are significant. · My whole essay flows smoothly with transitions between thoughts.	· Overall, my essay communicates my thinking about the text and why the issues raised are important. · My essay shows why those examples chosen are significant. · My essay flows well with transitions between paragraphs.	· My essay attempts to communicate my thinking about the text but fails to address why the issues raised are important. · My essay attempts to show why those examples chosen are significant. · My essay is choppy. The sections feel separate and do not flow well.	· My essay does not demonstrate my thinking about issues in the text. · My examples are mainly re-tellings of parts of the story · My essay is choppy. The sections feel separate and do not flow.
Grammar and Editing	· My final draft had less than 3 errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation. · I kept my tense consistent throughout the essay. · Used MLA citation format for quotes.	· My final draft had between 3 to 6 errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation. · I kept my tense mostly consistent throughout the essay. · Used some aspect of MLA citation for quotes.	· My final draft had more than 6 errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation. · I had some errors in tense consistency. · Used one aspect of MLA citations for quotes.	· My final draft had many more than 6 errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation. · I had many errors in tense consistency. · Didn’t use MLA citation for quotes.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Week 5

1. Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpPMAyAxO4Q

2. Read:

http://www.classicreader.com/book/2026/1/

What do you think of the narrator? (Blog or FB)

3. Read Feminist approaches:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/11/

Example of feminist analysis:

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/critical_define/feminessay.pdf

Answer: how can feminist studies enrich the understanding of literature?

(FB of blog)

Sunday, February 9, 2014

First essay - March 14

The first essay is based on The Glass Menagerie. We will change the due date because we have not watched the play.

The rubric for evaluations is the following:
http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/stw/edutopia-stw-yesprep-rubric-literary-analysis.pdf

Pay attention because at the end of the chart are some reflection questions that you also need to answer.

Remember we use APA for style and format.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Quiz 1

Here is the quiz that was for yesterday.
You have to analyze the following poem by Adrianne Rich:
You have to write a paragraph of at least 15 sentences, using a topic sentence that you will develop in the paragraph. You can analyze form (meter, tone, mood, images, language use, etc.) or content (the idea of poetry, theme, etc). Post your paragraphs here. Dateline: Sunday by midnight.

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
May 26, 2008

Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon's eyelid

later spread
sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair
asleep but not oblivious
of the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere

Tonight I think
no poetry
will serve

Syntax of rendition:

verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action

verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is choking
verbdisgracedgoes on doing

there are adjectives up for sale

now diagram the sentence

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Week 4 - February 11

1. Read:

http://www.douglas.bc.ca/services/learning-centre/pdf/rs/RS4_10_Elements_for_Analyzing_Fiction.pdf

2. Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpgftllVBWA

3. Analyze:

The Lottery

http://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf

Choose one aspect of short story elements and write an analysis of this story. (Blog or FB)

4. Girl

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/Girl/story.asp

How is this story non traditional? (short essay. Email or FB)

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Week 3 - January 29

1. Read The Prize Winning Poem by Fleur Adcock

http://www.arlindo-correia.com/080305.html#The_Prize-Winning_Poem

What does it imply about poetry? (Blog)

2. Read

http://www.mshogue.com/poetry/made_of.html

Read the following questions and then analyze the poem below using them as guide. Write a short esay. (email)

Imagery: How does the imagery construct the poem’s theme, tone, and purpose?

1. Visuals and Sensory: Are the images literal or figurative, abstract or concrete? What sensory experiences

are evoked? Are certain images repeated?

2. Metaphor: Does the poet use metaphors to make comparisons and express images or abstract ideas? Is

there an extended metaphor? What is the effect of the metaphors on the tone and theme of the poem?

3. Symbolism: Are certain objects or actions developed in the imagery symbolic of an abstract idea?

The Daffodils by William Wordsworth

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15925

3. Choose any poem in English. Work with a partner to analyze its images. (Let me know who your partner is)

4. Mythic approaches. Read:

Mythic approaches

http://istianjinelearning.org/joeschaaf/files/2013/06/Mythological-Archetypal-Approaches-1ekhhh0.pdf

Comments and questions about mythic approaches in Facebook. Everybody must comment.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Little Theater Group

http://www.littletheatregroup.org/current-events.html

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Check this assignment, please. Everybody.

This is Sayli's assignment. I want everybody to read it because this is more like what I am expecting. At the Bachelor's level we asume you use academic language in your responses. The level of analysis must be deep and carefully thought, even if it is just one paragraph.

Bachelor in English as Foreign Language

Literature II

Professor: Sandra Argüello

Student: Sayli Vargas Pérez

What is Poetry?

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words”. Robert Frost

The meaning of poetry is as unique and diverse as every human being is. However, it is remarkable to collect some ideas about the meaning of poetry in order to construct an essential significance.

First, according to “What is Poetry Video” the man says that everyone knows what poetry is when you see it, and when you feel it. Also, in the video the guy says that some English poetry has rhyme, and that there are some poems which do not have any regular rhyme scheme. In the same way, this man from the video says that in poetry people can write about whatever they want; since poetry try to figure out different subjects in life. Likewise, during the video the man quotes some important definitions from famous authors. For example Samuel Taylor Coleridge who says “poetry is the best words in the best order”. Similarly, the man from the video quotes other definitions. For instance, that “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of the emotion. “Words that sound better and mean more”. “Poetry is something that helps us or save us, even if we do not know what really is. In the same video, the man remarks another definition of poetry, and it is “me too”. It means that the word “me too” is the real value of the poem. It describes a feeling or an emotion that the reader has felt before and he has not known how to put it into words. In that era, the man of the video says that the highest accomplishment of the human intellect is the imagination, and the highest accomplishment of the imagination is empathy. So, the empathy is the ability of the poem to include you, and it can describe an experience or feeling other people have experienced as well.

Second, there is an interesting article, from “The Atlantic” on line magazine, which was written by Yakich in 2013. In this article the author mentions several characteristics about poetry and poems. For example, he says that a “poem helps the mind play with its well-trod patterns of thought, and can even help reroute those patterns by making us see the familiar anew”. Also, Yakich says that one utility a poem has it is to express ambiguity, and “ambiguity is not what school or society wants to instill”. It is what every different people may feel. Likewise, Yakich writes “if you search Wikipedia for “poem,” it redirects to “poetry”: “a form of literary art which uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonoaesthetics, sound symbolism, etc.” Fine English-professor speaks, but it belies the origins of the word. “Poem” comes from the Greek poíēma, meaning a “thing made,” and a poet is defined in ancient terms as “a maker of things.” So if a poem is a thing made, what kind of thing is it?” In the same way, the author says that “a poem is a text—a product of writing and rewriting—but unlike articles, stories, or novels, it never really becomes a thing made in order to become a commodity”. Also Yakich remarks that “readers have a certain amount of “freedom” in navigating the poem. The caveat is that freedom often requires more work, more self-motivation, and a certain degree of confusion.” In fact, “a poem still has the ability to surprise, if only for a moment which is outside all the real and virtual, the aural and digital chatter that envelopes it, and us. (Yakich, 2013). “In a poem, a word exchanged for another word (even a close synonym) can alter the entire functioning of the poem”. (Yakich, 2013). In short, poetry is all the feeling and emotion inside in a poem.

References:

Mark Yakich, (2013). What is a Poem? The Atlantic. Retrieved Monday 20^th, 2014. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/what-is-a-poem/281835/

Video #1 (Part 2) What is Poetry? Retrieved on Monday 20^th, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cYBb96ZoM

Week 2 - January 29

1. Voice in poetry. Answer the following

question. (Blog)

http://www.westga.edu/~scarter/Poetic%20Voice.htm

2. Turn in the following assignment: (Blog)

http://www.envisionacademy.org/blogs/english/tonevsmood.pdf

3. Read about E.E Cummings here:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-e-cummings

4. Choose one of Cumming´s poems here:

http://hellopoetry.com/-e-e-cummings/

Write one paragraph of at least 10 sentences analyzing one aspect of the
poem: tone, voice, theme. (to my email)

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Play and novel for reading

1. Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie

http://staff.bcc.edu/faculty_websites/jalexand/Williams--The_Glass_Menagerie.htm

2. Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street

http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Mango_Street/index.html

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Literature II - WEEK 1 January 15 - 22

Understanding Poetry

1. Self-reflection: What has been your experience with poetry?

(Write your response bellow in the comment box. Write your name. )

2. Watch the following video and read the following article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cYBb96ZoM

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/what-is-a-poem/281835/

Compare the answers giving in both the video and the text and write a summary that answers the question "What is poetry?"

(Write your response to sandra.arguello@gmail.com)

3. Read the poem Humanity I love you by E.E. Cummings

http://hellopoetry.com/poem/humanity-i-love-you/

Why do we say this is a poem? What is your response to this poem?