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Activity 1
Go to your Blackboard course. On the black navigation panel to the left, click “Links to Quizzes.” Click on “Response to Image” and complete the short written assignment. Students will have a half hour to complete the response. This is not a graded activity. It is just an introduction to your thinking and writing style. No other work will be accepted until this activity has been submitted.
Activity 2
Printed with permission of Artist Luisa Rivera
Read “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, linked here in PDF format.
Handsomest Drowned Man
Activity 3
Click this link to access information about the life and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez from the BMCC library database Biography in Context..
Activity 4
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Photographer: Carl Van Vechten
Click this link and watch the PowerPoint on thesis statements.
Activity 5
Quiz 1
Please complete the 10-question quiz on thesis statements. Students have 90 minutes to complete the quiz. You must complete the quiz in one sitting during class. Once the quiz has closed, it will not be reopened and will no longer be visible to students. Quizzes cannot be made up. Please do not request a reopening of a missed quiz. If you are
To access the quiz, navigate to your Blackboard course. On the dark grey navigation panel to the left, click “Links to Quizzes.” Then click “Quiz 1.”
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Activity 6
The short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes is rich with various forms of irony, which will be relevant to the week’s discussion board. Click this link for a short video that explains the three types of irony.
Activity 7
Click this link to access the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes.
Activity 8
Click this link to access a Youtube lecture on “Salvation.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1D8ValcPY
Activity 9
Click this link to visit an interesting site, published by the Kansas Heritage Group, which explores the life and work of Langston Hughes.
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Activity 10
Please review this short pre-reading Lecture on “Araby” by James Joyce.
Short Lecture
Activity 11 (optional)
Click here for an overview of Ireland at the turn of the 20th Century, when this story is set.
Activity 12
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Click this link to access an interactive reading of “Araby” by James Joyce on the Commonlit website. You do not have to answer the assessment questions, but they may enhance your understanding of the story.
Optional – Audio Reading of “Araby”
Click this link to access a very good podcast recording of “Araby” by James Joyce.
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Activity 13
Click this link and this link for two videos, which review common literary terms and devices.
Next week there will be a short, practical quiz on identification of literary terms. These links will also be available on the Week 3 page.
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