Online Delivery & Responses - Marked Assignments

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Online Delivery & Responses

This section of English 1109 works in an asychronic manner, which means that you don’t need to be at your computer at any given time. There are, however, deadlines for weekly responses (which you might think of as ‘homework’), for collected responses, and for essays.

As a general rule, I’ll start each class with at least one video containing introductions and explanations. After looking at the video and the assigned material, work on one of the response options, listed inRESPONSES in the schedule.

See Responses: Intro & Samples for details on the content, length, format, and grading criteria of weekly responses, indicated in this time-line in green:

Assignments by Week: collected responses for Weeks 2, 3, 5, 6 to be due by noon Thursday June18:

Week 2: RESPONSES: Write on any of the options following the leaf sign Compare images of sensuality and beauty used by Romeo in “Love at First Sight” and Polonius in 1.3. 87-135. Compare the use of nature imagery (that is, imagery drawn from the natural world of lakes, trees, sky, animals, etc.) in Laertes’ advice (1.3. 6-54) and There is a willow (4.6. 151-168).

Week 3: RESPONSES: Prufrock says he isn’t Prince Hamlet, yet is he right? Compare the character of Prufrock and Hamlet in terms of uncertainty or psychological crisis. Who is more depressed, Prufrock or Hamlet? To what degree does humour alleviate the pessimism of the characters.How do allusions to Hamlet and Polonius help to delineate Prufrock’s character? Creative option: using imagery, metaphor or allusion that comes directly from one or more of this week’s texts, write a depiction of your state of mind during COVID-19.

Week 5: ? RESPONSES: ? Among the four women in The Stronger and Roman Fever, who is the most clever, the most devious, or the strongest? ? If you were to situate the women on a spectrum from self-knowing to self-deluded, where would you put them, and why? ? Creative option: Change or add an element to one of the plays so as to make a point about trust, friendship, power, self-knowledge, or some other theme in the play.

Week 6: ? RESPONSES: ? Compare Hamlet’s play-acting to that of one or more of the characters in The Stronger and Roman Fever. ? In 3.4. 205-13, Hamlet uses the phrases adder’s fang’d, hung with his own petard, delve one yard below their mines, and in one line two crafts directly meet. Take one of these phrases (or a different phrase from 205-13 and apply it to The Stronger and/or Roman Fever.

Response Options

Due by noon Thursday July 30, send your collected responses for Week 9-12:

Week 9: RESPONSES: How does Fowler start to change as a result of his experiences in the canal in Phat Diem?Compare the opening scene (or scenes) in the novel and film.

Week 10: RESPONSES: In her introduction (page vii), Zadie Smith suggests that Phuong floats "free of her symbolic weights." Is this so? Is Phuong a complex character or a stereotype, or both? Compare the novel and the film in terms of the relation between Phuong and Fowler. Creative options: Rework an aspect of the love triangle in terms of present-day gender. Create an updated scenario involving the quiet American or the quiet Canadian.

Week 11: RESPONSES: How are betjaks are used to push (both literally and metaphorically) into realms where questions of morality and economics are paramount? Compare the opening scene (or scenes) of the novel and film.

Week 12: RESPONSES: What effect does leaving Vera and/or the James Bond theme out of the film have?Compare the treatment of Jill in the novel and the film. Creative option: create a scenario in which Hamilton stayed to watch the Wayang on the outskirts of Bandung, in which Kumar is not quite so loyal to Hamilton, or in which Hamilton is not quite so unaware, impetuous, or driven.

WEEK 14: Conditions for my Essays in English1109 class to be submit by noon Thursday August 3.

A. Instructions: Essay # 3 (30%). By noon Thursday August 3, Format: 14 Bond James. For the essay, compare QA and YD in whatever way you think is insightful. You could write on journalism, rickshaws, nationality, culture, politics, religion, or loyalty and betrayal in romantic relationships. Approximately half of the essays must be on QA and half on YD. The instructions are the same as for the earlier essays, except that the word limit is 1000.

B. WEEK EIGHT it late but I need to submit it still.

Essay # 2 (20%) due noon Thursday June 25. Write on manipulation, mind-games, play-acting and /or deception in Hamlet and either The Stronger or Roman Fever. Format: 8 Bond James. Come up with your own angle and your own argument. 700-word maximum; otherwise, the instructions are otherwise the same as for the first take-home essay. approximately half the essay must be on Hamlet and half on The Stronger or Roman Fever.

Please in are some detail but is also better to read weekly instruction for these Assignments.

Week 7: Collected Responses (15%). By noon Thursday June 18, send an email of your collected responses for Weeks 2, 3, 5, 6. Paste your responses chronologically, and leave them in the same state that you sent them originally. Format: 7 Bond James.

Collected responses Weeks 9-12

Week 13: Collected responses (15%). By noon Thursday July 30, send your collected responses for Week 9-12 Paste your responses chronologically, and leave them in the same state that you sent them originally. Format: 13 Bond James.