Public Domain
Activity 1
Click this link to access an interactive reading of “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin on the CommonLit website. You are not required to complete the assessment questions, but doing so may enhance your understanding of the story.
Activity 3
Public Domain
Click this link to access an interactive reading of “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant on the CommonLit website. You are not required to complete the assessment questions, but doing so may enhance your understanding of the story.
Activity 4
Click this link to access the story “Another Evening at the Club” by Alifa Rifaat.
Public Domain
Activity 5
Click this link to view a short Youtube video on the 19th Century Cult of Domesticity.
Activity 6 (optional)
Please read the following article by Barbara Welter about
The Cult of True Womanhood
Activity 7
Please view this video lecture on “The Necklace.” I am going to expand it to include “The Story of an Hour” and “The Wife”; however, for now, Parts II and III must be read from the transcript.
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Activity 8
Click this link to read and listen to the poem “The Wife” by Emily Dickinson.
Activity 9
Quiz 2 on Essay Formatting
The quiz covers formatting requirements for essays in ENG 201, as stipulated in the Format Matters guidelines. The test is timed, and students have one hour to complete it. The quiz will be taken during class. Quizzes cannot be made up. Please do not ask to have a quiz reopened.
Study materials for the quiz appear below. You can also look at Shared Student Essays on the main menu to see how your paper should look.
To access the quiz, navigate to your Blackboard course. Click on Links to Quizzes. Then click on Quiz 2.
Activity 10
Essay 1 First Draft due: Sunday, August 6
Click here to access Essay First Draft directions.
All essays in this class must adhere to MLA format. Before submitting any written work, please review the following guides to formatting. Only correctly formatted essays will be eligible for a grade of A.
Click here for a sample student essay. Essays with any similarity to the speciific content in this sample will be returned for revision.
Click here to review the collaborative sample essay about we wrote in class about “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”
To submit your essay, navigate to your Blackboard course. Click on “Essay Submission Links.” Then click on the Essay First Draft folder.
Click to see exactly how your paragraph should be formatted.
To submit your paragraph, return to your Blackboard course and click the “Essay Submission Links” folder on the black navigation panel. Within the folder, click the subfolder labeled “Paragraph Assignment.”
Activity 11
Click here to review PowerPoint on “How to Insert Quotations into a Literary Essay.”
Click here to access the Week 1 discussion board.
Activity 12
Please read “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
Activity 12
Click here for a video and class writing activity based on “Girl.”
To submit writing activity, navigate to Blackboard. Click on Links to Quizzes. Then click on “Creative Writing Activity.”
Activity 13
Review Quick Guide to Sentence Structure on COURSE INFORMATION. This is on the second page of COURSE INFORMATION.
“A Wife for My Son” by Ali Ghalem
Click here to access Are You Listening? an anthology of Middle Eastern stories from which “A Wife for My Son” comes.
