ENGL 3033

Types of Literature

 

Syllabus

 

Assignments

       Unit 1: The Short Story

       Unit 2: Poetry  

       Unit 3: Drama 

 

Analysis of Theme in a Short Story

       Model Essays Analyzing Theme  [PDF file]

            Computer Searches for Writing Assignment 2 and Essay Exam 1 [PDF file] [See #35 on this checklist.]

       Questions to help you state theme for Writing Assignment 2

       Checklist for Essay Analyzing Theme [PDF file] [Use this checklist for Writing Assignment 2 and for Essay Exam 1.]

Story for Essay Exam 1: “After You, My Dear Alphonse,” by Shirley Jackson [Available only in class in hard copy.]

Writing about “After You, My Dear Alphonse”

 

Explication of a Poem [Please print and read all these documents, and bring them to every class period in this unit.]

Questions on Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”

              Model Explications and Scansions  

[To open this document, you must have Adobe Reader on your computer.  This program can be downloaded on the Internet free of charge.  Please print this 11-page document, read it, and bring it with you to each remaining class period for this unit.]

              Guidelines for Scansion

              Checklist for Practice Explication [PDF file; use this version]

List of Approved Poems for Practice Explication

Instructions for Writing Explication of “Death, be not proud” for Essay Exam 2

Checklist for Essay Exam 2 [Properly formatted version of this document will be  handed out in class.]

 

Writing Assignment 7: Othello Video Critique:

Writing a Video Critique

 

Terms

       Unit 1: Terms for Analysis of Fiction

       Unit 2: Terms for Analysis of Poetry

       Unit 3: Terms for Analysis of Drama