parforanglit3tasks

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PARFOR

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Anglophone Literature III - Tasks

These tasks and resources are for free use by both professors and students of Anglophone Literature.

This page is part of the production of the UESC extension project Dinamizando/Inglês. Welcome!

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Parfor homepage

Anglophone Literature III homepage

Como escrever uma resenha ou book review

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Tasks for the first week of class: January 2013

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Task 1 Read the following pages: Course Description, Assessment, and Bibliography of Parfor Anglophone Literature III - UESC 2013.1

Task 2 General Review of PARFOR - Anglophone Literature I and II.

Task 3 Go to The Road Not Taken. Do some research on Robert Frost. Read the poem. Be ready to share your answers to the question proposed, besides other questions and comments on the author's biography and works.

Task 5 Go to Postcolonial Anglophone Literature. Read Paul Brians's considerations on the term "Postcolonial Literature". Be ready to discuss the issue.

Task 6 Go to Postcolonial Anglophone Literature. Read The contemporary post-colonial novel in English, by Thomas Bonnici

Task 7 Read the information about Journal Writing. At least 3 times with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words. The first one will be written in class. [Credit 2; 5,0]

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Tasks for the second week of class: February 2013

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Task 7 Read the information about Journal Writing. At least 3 times with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words. [Credit 2; 5,0]

Task 8 Click here. Read about one of the black writers listed. Take notes and make comments in your journal. Be ready to share biographical and literary information about the author you choose: what are some of the main pieces of information about his/her life? What are his/her main works? What are his/her main themes?

Note: This task is preparation for part of Credit 1 [5,0; in March].

Credit 2 [5,0]: Task 5: Journal Writing. At least 3 times with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words. [throughout the course]

Credit 2 [5,0]: Writing: write a 200-300-word book review on one of the works in the scope of Anglophone Lite.rature III – For guidelines, go to: Como escrever uma resenha ou book review. [for March]

Oral Presentations

February XXth (afternoon):

XXXX: names

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Tasks for the third week of class: March 2013

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Task 4 Go to Dubliners - James Joyce. Everyone: read the short story "The boarding house". Let's split the reading of the other short stories in groups (or pairs). Be ready for discussion.

Note: This task is part of Credit 1 [5,0; in March].

Task 9 Open the attached file (at the bottom of this page) with Jamaica Kincaid's "On seeing England for the first time". Prepare to discuss it. Highlight excerpts to read out loud and comment on.

Task 10 Go to Uma Breve História da Literatura Norte-Americana - muito mais do que uma Best-Seller. Be ready to engage in a group discussion and/or to answer questions to be provided by your professor.

Task 7 Read the information about Journal Writing. At least 3 times with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words. The first one will be written in class. [Credit 2; 5,0]

Credit 2 [5,0]: Writing: write a 200-300-word book review on one of the works in the scope of Anglophone Literature III – For guidelines, go to: Como escrever uma resenha ou book review. [for March]

Credit 2 [5,0]: Task 5: Journal Writing. At least 3 times with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words. [throughout the course]

Oral Presentations

March XXth (afternoon):

ALICE WALKER: Lívia, Ivna and Lidijones

March XXth (afternoon):

TONI MORRISON: Sérgio, Flávia and Adina

March XXth (afternoon):

CHARLES JOHNSON: Solange and Juzânia

March XXth (afternoon):

TERRY MCMILLAN: Juliano, Márcio and Tatiana

March XXth (afternoon):

ALBERT FRENCH: Catiúscia, Ramille and Fabrízia