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Activity 1
Please read the 3-page article “Excerpt from ‘On Her Own Work’: The Element of Suspense in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.'”
Activity 2
Click this link to access “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” on the Commonlit website. I recommend that you complete the short answers for a better understanding of the text, but they will not be officially graded.
Used with permission of Artist Kim Rosen
Optional Activity
Although the sound is a little scratchy, that might just add to the authentic 1960s feeling of this reading of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by the author herself, Flannery O’Connor.
Activity 3
Click this link to access a fascinating literary critique from the BMCC library database Literature Resource Center, entitled “Things Darkly Buried: In Praise of ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.'” This article discusses the many “buried things” readers can unearth in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor.
Or PDF format:
Things_Darkly_Buried_In_Praise
Emily Kofsky
Used with permission of Artist Emily Kofsky
Activity 4
Please read the lecture “Where Is the Goodness?”
Activity 5
Quiz 7 – Midterm
This is a 25-question multiple-choice midterm quiz, which tests your knowledge of the course materials from Week 1 through Week 8. Students have 90 minutes to complete the quiz, which must be done in one sitting. Quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m., Monday, March 25 through 11:59 p.m., Sunday, March 31 Once the quiz has closed, it will become unavailable and unviewable. Quizzes will not be reopened.
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 7 – Midterm.”
Activity 6
Click this link to access the Week 9 discussion.
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