Writing Homework Help

• Choose two of the questions below and discuss your experience going through this course and the content. Be sure to address your group work and reflection work as you consider your comprehension of literature.
• Which assumption of yours was most challenged by what you learned in this course? Has it changed? How?
• How do your accomplishments compare with what you had hoped for and expected at the start?
• Which idea or skill was hardest to really “get”? What crucial idea or skill came naturally?
• If this course were a journey, where did it take you? What was the terrain like? Was it a complete trip or part of a longer one?
• What perspectives different from your own did you gain from this course that you now appreciate?

Module 5

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify elements of free verse.
2. Analyze poetry from a critical standpoint.
3. Identify graphic novel sub-genre.
4. Examine a poem or compare and contrast poems.
5. Identify soft skills while reading and analyzing literature.

• Sections in Introduction to Literature
  • Free Verse
  • How to Analyze Poetry
• Arnold, M. (2019). Consolation. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43587/consolation-56d2225a06c7e (Original work published 1852)
• Brooks, G. (2019). We real cool. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28112/we-real-cool (Original work published 1963)
• Cummings, E.E. (2007, August 7). (Me Up at Does). Retrieved from https://readalittlepoetry.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/me-up-at-does-by-e-e-cummings/ (Original work published 1963)
• Eliot, T. S. (2019). Aunt Helen. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=13224 (Original work published 1915)
• Hughes, L. (2019). I, too. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too (Original work published 1926)
• Sartrapi, M. (2000). Persepolis. Retrieved from https://rhinehartadvancedenglish.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/1/0/22108252/the-complete-persepolis-by.pdf

• Spiegelman, A. (2016). Maus. Retrieved from https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/maus-a-survivors-tale-my-father-bleeds-history-by-art-spiegelman.pdf

 (Original work published 1980-1991)

• Williams, W. C. (2019). 3 stances. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28309 (Original work published 1960)

Module 6:

Learning Outcomes

1. Summarize the attributes of plot, character, staging, and theme in drama.
2. Identify plot, character, staging, and theme while viewing a film adaptation of a play.
3. Explain the structure of comedy in drama.
4. Explain the structure of tragedy in drama.

Required

• Sections in Introduction to Literature
  • Introduction to Plays and Film
• Ibsen, H. (2018). A doll’s house. Retrieved from
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542?msg=welcome_stranger
• Ibsen, H. (1968). A doll’s house. Part I: The destruction of illusion. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/adollshousepart1
• Ibsen, H. (1968). A doll’s house. Part II: Ibsen’s themes. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/adollshousepart2
• Wilde, O. (2006). The importance of being earnest: A trivial comedy for serious people. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844 (Original work published 1895)

Recommended

• Foster, R. (1956). Wilde as parodist: A second look at The importance of being earnest. College English, 18(1), 18-23. doi:10.2307/372764
• King’s College London. (2005). Ancient theaters of Greece and Rome [Video file]. Retrieved from https://csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=257764&xtid=34695
• King’s College London. (2005). The Renaissance theater [Video file]. Retrieved from https://csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=257764&xtid=34696
• Weintraub, S. (1958). Ibsen’s “Doll’s house” metaphor foreshadowed in Victorian fiction. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 13(1), 67-69. doi:10.2307/3044105