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Activity 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Go to your Blackboard course. On the black navigation panel to the left, click “Links to Quizzes.” Click on “Response to Image” and complete the short written assignment. Students will have one hour to complete the response. This is not a graded activity.<\/em> It is just an introduction to your thinking and writing style. Please complete by Sunday, June 4. No other work will be accepted until this activity has been submitted.<\/p>\n

Activity 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, linked here in PDF format.
\nHandsomest Drowned Man<\/a><\/p>\n

Activity 3\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click this link<\/a> to access information about the life and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez from the BMCC library database Biography in Context..<\/em><\/p>\n

Activity 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Click this link<\/a> and watch the PowerPoint on thesis statements.<\/p>\n

Activity 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quiz 1<\/p>\n

Please complete the 10-question quiz on thesis statements. The quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m., Tues., May 30 through 5:00 p.m., Sunday, June 4.. Students have 90 minutes to complete the quiz. You must complete the quiz in one sitting.<\/strong>\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

To access the quiz, navigate to your Blackboard course. On the dark grey navigation panel to the left, click\u00a0“Links to Quizzes.” Then click “Quiz 1.”<\/p>\n

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Activity 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/a> for a short video that explains the three types of irony.<\/p>\n

Activity 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click this link<\/a> to access the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes.<\/p>\n

Activity 8\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click this link to access a Youtube lecture on “Salvation.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aN1D8ValcPY<\/a><\/p>\n

Activity 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click this link<\/a> to visit an interesting site, published by the Kansas Heritage Group, which explores the life and work of Langston Hughes.<\/p>\n

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Activity 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please review this short pre<\/span><\/span>-reading Lecture on “Araby” by James Joyce.
\nShort Lecture<\/a><\/p>\n

Activity 11 (optional)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click<\/a> here for an overview of Ireland at the turn of the 20th Century, when this story is set.<\/p>\n

Activity 12<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Click this link to access an interactive reading of “Araby”<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Optional – Audio Reading of “Araby”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click this link to access a very good podcast\u00a0recording<\/a> of “Araby” by James Joyce.<\/p>\n

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Activity 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click this link <\/a>and this link f<\/a>or two videos, which review common literary terms and devices.
\nNext week there will be a short, practical quiz on identification of literary terms. These links will also be available on the Week 3 page.<\/p>\n

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Activity 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paragraph Writing Assignment due: Sunday, June 4, 11:59 p.m.<\/p>\n

Over the course of this semester, you will be building a final thesis-driven research essay<\/em> in three separate drafts. \u201cThesis-driven\u201d means that the essay is focused on one clear central idea. <\/em>This step-by-step process is sometimes known as \u201cscaffolding.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Click<\/a> to access Directions for the Paragraph Assignment.<\/p>\n

Click<\/a> to see exactly how your paragraph should be formatted.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Format Matters Video<\/a><\/p>\n

Format Illustration<\/a><\/p>\n

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