ENGL 300 - Survey of Literary History

ENGL 300 Discussion Board Forums (8)

Discussion boards are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each forum. Each thread must be 300–400 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be 150–200 words.

ENGL 300 Dialogue Essay

Imagine that any 3 characters from our reading during the first half of the term (one character from each work) are sharing a meal together. Re-create in the form of a dialogue in which they exchange ideas. A strong dialogue will ensure that the characters truly listen to each other and respond accordingly. It will also include their varying ideas on such topics as authority, societal expectations and roles, and personal concerns (i.e. power, family, individual identity) as well as appropriate quotes from the text to support ideas. No need for a formal thesis statement or introduction with this essay, as the entire piece will be a creative dialogue, written like a play. Just launch right into the conversation between the three characters. These papers should be between 1,000–1,500 words in length (3–4 double-spaced pages) and should use no outside sources. Ensure that you cite textual detail from the stories using appropriate MLA format and that you include a properly formatted Works Cited page at the end of your essay.

ENGL 300 Research Paper

The student will select 1 work which we have covered this semester and write a 1,500–2,000-word (4–6 double-spaced pages) research paper exploring the ways in which an understanding of the culture that produced the work informs a clearer interpretation of a particular theme. Some examples of such themes might include attitudes toward nature, death, social class, gender, or the inevitability of religious conflict. The student must integrate at least 4 different, credible, scholarly sources (in addition to your primary text) cited according to appropriate MLA formatting standards and including a properly formatted Works Cited page at the end. The paper must be thesis-driven, making a coherent and original argument regarding the chosen work.

ENGL 300 Quizzes

Each quiz will cover the Reading & Study material for the assigned modules/weeks. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes and contain 5–10 short answer, true/false, and multiple-choice questions based on the reading and contextual information for that week. Each quiz will have a 20-minute time limit.