English 1302
Professor will hand out essay assignments in classroom.
Lab Assignments
English 1302
Dr. Joan Kennedy Name____________________________
The student must complete 10 units of credit from these activities in order to satisfy this lab requirement (25 points). No partial credit is given. If you wish to obtain extra credit, you can complete more projects than the ten-unit requirement. You will receive the unit amount assigned to each activity. Students may complete a maximum of 10 units extra.
As you complete each lab assignment, hand it in to me for evaluation. When I return it to you, I will check off each lab activity on this sheet. The final due date for all lab work is:_________________________________. Hand in this lab sheet on that day so that I can record your work.
STUDENT MUST COMPLETE 10 UNITS FROM THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES:
1. Write a paragraph in which you explain the value of literature by focusing on a literary work that has been enjoyable or meaningful. Don't worry about defining literature correctly. The aim of this exercise is to begin reviewing the values you hold as you read a work that you regard as literary.
2.0 units________________________
2. Visit a Web site that includes reader's comments about particular works of fiction. A good example is www.amazon.com, a commercial, online "bookstore." Choose a novel or short story collection on the site that readers have commented about a lot. Then, write a brief response in which you identify the values that seem reflected in the comments. In what respects, apparently, does literature matter to these readers? What do they evidently hope to find in it?
4.0 units_________________________
3. Read Eudora Welty's short story "A Visit of Charity" (MLM 94-98). Write your reaction to it off the top of your head, spending at least ten minutes on the response. Note any personal experience affecting your response as well as one or more questions that you have about the story even after you have finished reading it. Remember that question-posing is a good way to prepare for a formal paper on the story, enabling you to identify issues worth writing about at length. The Reporter's Formula questions, who, what, where, when, why, how, also are helpful in gaining insight into the story's details and implications.
2.0 units__________________________
4. Read Essex Hemphill's poem "Commitments" (MLM 552-554). Answer questions 1, 3, and 4.
2.0 units__________________________
5. Read Gabriel Spera's poem "My Ex-Husband" (MLM 1171-1173). Answer questions 1, 2, and 5.
2.0 units__________________________
6. Read Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" (MLM 1205-1209). Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
4.0 units__________________________
7. Read Victor Villanueva's essay "Reflecting on Richard Rodriguez" (MLM 963-965). Answer questions 1-5.
4.0 units__________________________
8. Read N. Scott Momaday's essay "The Way to Rainy Mountain" (MLM 1427-1431). Answer questions 3, 4, and 5.
4.0 units__________________________
9. Read Brent Staples' essay "The Runaway Son" (MLM 223-231). Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
4.0 units_________________________
10. Read Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby" (MLM 661-665). Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
4.0 units_________________________
11. Read William Shakespeare's poem "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" (MLM 573-574). Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
4.0 units_________________________
12. Read Sherman Alexie's poem "Capital Punishment" (MLM 1162-1166). Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
4.0 units_________________________
13. Letter to the Editor--Argumentative writing finds its largest audience in the editorials section of the newspaper. To complete this assignment, you should bring a copy of your published letter to the editor from any Collin or Dallas county newspaper. Letters must be published by the end of the semester.
4.0 units________________________
14. Read Art Spiegelman's biography (MLM 562). Respond to the questions listed in "Before You Read" (pg. 563). Analyze Spiegelman's comic strip "Prisoner on the Hell Planet" (564-567) and answer questions 1-5 (pg. 568).
5.0 units________________________
15. Attend any English Writing Workshops offered on campus this semester (see brochure for explanation). Each workshop will be worth 4 units credit. You must have the workshop leader sign your lab sheet for verification. You can earn a maximum of 8.0 units credit for this assignment.
Seminar #1 - Title_______________________4.0 units_____
Seminar #2 - Title_______________________4.0 units_____