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Activity 1
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 2
Click this link to access information about the life and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez from the BMCC library database Biography in Context..
Activity 3
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Photographer: Carl Van Vechten
Click this link and watch the PowerPoint on thesis statements.
Activity 4
Quiz 1
Please complete the 10-question quiz on thesis statements. The quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, September 5 through 5:00 p.m., Sunday, September 10.. Students have 90 minutes to complete the quiz. You must complete the quiz in one sitting. Problems occur when students leave and attempt to return to the test. Once the quiz has closed, it will not be reopened and will no longer be visible to students. Please do not request a reopening of a missed quiz.
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 5
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 6
Click this link to access the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes.
Activity 7
Click this link to access a Youtube lecture on “Salvation.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1D8ValcPY
Activity 8
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 9
Please review this short pre-reading Lecture on “Araby” by James Joyce.
Short Lecture
Activity 10 (optional)
Click here for an overview of Ireland at the turn of the 20th Century, when this story is set.
Activity 11
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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 12
Click this link and this link for two videos, which review common literary terms and devices.
In Week 3, 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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Activity 13
Paragraph Writing Assignment due: Sunday, September 17, 11:59 p.m.
Over the course of this semester, you will be building a final thesis-driven research essay in two separate drafts. “Thesis-driven” means that the essay is focused on one clear central idea. This step-by-step process is sometimes known as “scaffolding.” Think of this assignment as a practice before you progress to the first draft. The assignment is to write one simple paragraph based on the following directions.
Click to access Directions for the Paragraph Assignment.
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.”
