2009 ENH 242 Syllabus
2009 ENH 242 Week-by-Week
Section 44076
ENH 242 Choose Your Own Adventure
Bloom's Taxonomy Handout
The Response Paper Overview with Example
Need to Ning?: http://laduca.ning.com
Important Links and Readings:
A Separate Peace
Blooms Taxonomy Handout
Research Paper Info
Research Paper Handout
Research Paper Self Edit Handout
Transcendentalism
from Nature
from "Self-Reliance"
Thoreau's Walden
"Where I Lived, and What I Lived for" --read from paragraph 16 to the end
"Conclusion" --read paragraphs 4-13
Naturalism
Death in the Woods
the rest of Death in the Woods
All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built, and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls. - Sherwood Anderson
Realism
Realism Readings - A packet of all three required readings ready for you! Just print!
"Richard Cory"
"Yellow Wallpaper"
Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Make-Up Work"
"Roman Fever"
"The Notorious [Celebrated] Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Harlem Renaissance Project Links
Harlem Renaissance Project Description:
Steps for Your Assignment:
1. Choose a power point background. Everything you do must be on one slide only.
2. Select a theme to unite all the pieces you will include on your slide - include the theme somewhere on your slide.
3. Select a painting from the Harlem Renaissance time period. Go to http://images.google.com/ and search "Harlem Renaissance Paintings" choose a painting that fits your overall idea.
4. Choose one of the poets to work with ¡V you will find links on my home page or in our text book! The poets you can work with are: Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer. You do not have to use the entire poem, just select a part of the poem that works with your theme - be sure to put the poet, title, and the line(s) you chose.
5. Select a quote from A Raisin in the Sun.
6. Research the literary period called The Harlem Renaissance. Find a fact or point of interest to include on your slide. Be sure you label this: Historical Point. Also, if you take something as a quote, be sure to cite where you got the information or who said it! Don't plagiarize!
7. Select a symbolic image of your choice to tie together your ideas - a piece of clip art can be included for this. Choose carefully and with purpose!
8. Print out your entire slide ¡V if you can, print it in color! You want it to be the full size of your paper - just like your example!
If you do not have power point at home, don't forget that you can go to the media center to complete this assignment! You can also complete this using Microsoft Word if that is easier for you! You choose!
Use the example to help you! Remember that there are additional resources available on my web page! Finally, be creative!
Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction by Paul Reuben
The Harlem Renaissance Multimedia Resource
Drop me off in Harlem (Kennedy Center)
Artists from Eyecon Art
Rhapsodies in Black
Getty Images
Harlem Renaissance Poets *author not in textbook
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Cullen, Countee
*Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Hughes, Langston
*McKay, Claude
*Toomer, Jean
