Monday and Tuesday are the last days of the seven-week semester. Congratulations to all of you who made it through this short, intensive course. It was a pleasure getting to know you through your discussion board posts and essays. The final exam essay is due by midnight, Monday, October 23rd. […]
Celeste Conway
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Welcome to Week 7, the final full week of our intensive 7-week course. This week, we will be exploring the writing of Raymond Carver, known for his precise and pared-down writing style. The final exam essay is posted this week so that you can start on it early if you […]
In the beautiful and haunting story “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a great change takes place in a remote village on a seaside cape after a beautiful drowned body washes to shore . Prompt: Why do you think I might have assigned this as the first […]
Choose one of the following prompts: if you are an immigrant to the U.S., please share one specific personal experience that is echoed in The House on Mango Street. Be sure to identify the name of the vignette. If you are not an immigrant to the U.S., who in your […]
Compare/contrast the pared-down writing style of Raymond Carver to the style of another writer whose work we have read this semester. Provide examples from both stories to support your ideas. To submit your Week 7 post, follow the steps below. 1. Scroll up to the black strip at the top […]
Welcome to Week 6. BMCC is officially closed on Monday, October 9 for Indigenous Peoples Day. This week we will read the short novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The book is composed of a collection of vignettes, which piece together the story of a young Mexican-American […]
Welcome to Week 5 of our course. This week we will be returning to the short story form for a reading of Joyce Carole Oates’ chilling work “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Warning: It may give you nightmares. We will also be reading several works centered on […]
Welcome to Week 4 of our course. BMCC is officially closed on Monday, September 25th for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. However, you must still complete the week’s activities. This week will complete a segment on Poetry. We’ll be exploring the themes and structure of Shakespearean and Italian sonnets, as […]
Welcome to Week 3 of our online course. This week will be exploring one of the great tragedies of Western literature, Oedipus the King. I look forward to hearing your responses as we examine the complex character of the doomed king and ponder timeless questions about the human condition. The […]
This week we will be reading a selection of short works from the 19th Century, which feature women protagonists: “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, along with the Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Wife.” These stories are accessed on the Commonlit website. […]
Welcome to Week 1 of ENG 201 Introduction to Literature. This is an intensive course that will be completed in seven weeks from Tuesday, September 5 – Tuesday, October 24. Be aware that you will be completing the same amount of work as you would in a regular 15-week semester, […]
This is a Zero Textbook Cost course, which uses OER (Open Educational Resources) in lieu of a textbook. All required materials can be accessed in the Weekly folders.
Please visit the Blackboard home page for your section and access the E-learning Orientation on the gray navigation panel. This is a mandatory assignment and should be completed by the end of the first week.
Click here to create an account with Commonlit. This is a zero textbook course (ZTC), and many of the assignments will come from this interactive website. Please create your student account right away so that you do not miss any assignments. Your class code is: LBPD6EQ
This course is a 7-week intensive, in-person course, which runs from Tuesday, September 5, through Tuesday, October 24. Be aware that you will be completing the equivalent of a 15-week course in seven short weeks. This is an asynchronous online course. There are no Zoom meetings nor in-person sessions. All […]
The High Cost of Plagiarism Plagiarism will be dealt with firmly. A student who plagiarizes will receive a permanent grade of zero (0) for the essay or discussion in question. All essays will be submitted through Turnitin, which features plagiarism detection capability. Suspected plagiarism, even if it passes the Turnitin […]
