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Activity 1
Click this link for a good discussion entitled “How to Read a Poem” from Poets.org.
Provided by: Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College. Located at: http://eli.nvcc.edu/. License: CC BY: Attribution
Activity 2
Click this link to access “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” on the Poets.org website. Click the audio icon, and you will hear a very memorable and dramatic recitation of the poem by the author himself.
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is characterized as a lyric poem .
Click this link to read more about William Butler Yeats on the BMCC database Biography in Context.
OER source: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lake-isle-innisfree
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Activity 3
Click this link to access the poem “My Last Duchess”
on on the Commonlit website. This is written as a monologue and is an example of a dramatic poem.
Or click this link.
Activity 4
Click this link for my video lecture on “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.
Activity 5
Click this link to access the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Tretheway. This is an example of a narrative poem.
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Activity 6
Please read “We Real Cool” and “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Activity 7
Final Draft Essay due: Sunday, November 20, 11:59 p.m.
For the final draft of your research essay, you will be incorporating your secondary source(s) into the corrected version of your first draft essay. Please be sure that your secondary source information is relevant to and supports your thesis.
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.
Guide to MLA essay formatting from the BMCC library.
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Activity 7
Please click this link to access the Week 12 Discussion Board.
Click here for information about How Discussion Boards Work.
Click here for information about How Discussion Boards Are Graded.
