Welcome to Week 5 of our course. This week (and next Tuesday), we will be exploring one of the great tragedies of Western literature, Oedipus the King, a Ancient Greek drama which raises powerful questions about free will and fate. I’m sure you will be intrigued by the complicated character […]
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Welcome to Week 4 of our course. This week will begin a segment on Poetry. We’ll be exploring the themes and structure of Shakespearean and Italian sonnets, as well as lyric, dramatic, and narrative poetry. Quiz 4 is due Sunday, August 10th.
Welcome to Week 3. This week we will be exploring the genre of fairytales. We will be reading several works centered on the Snow White Story, including the fairytale “Little Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm, the poem “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Anne Sexton, and an. excerpt […]
Welcome to Week 2 of our intensive five-week course.. This week we will be reading a number of short stories and a poem. “Salvation” by Langston Hughes and “Araby” are two coming-of-age stories. We will also be reading a selection of short works from the 19th Century, which feature women […]
Welcome to Week 1 of ENG 201 Introduction to Literature. This is an intensive course that will be completed in five weeks from Thursday, July 17 – Tuesday, August 19. Mandatory weekly Zoom meetings are on Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00 pm. to 1:40 pm. Be aware that you will […]
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.
This course is a 5-week intensive, asynchronous course, which runs from Thursday, July 17, through Tuesday, August 19. Be aware that you will be completing the equivalent of a 15-week course in six short weeks. Mandatory Zoom meetings meet on Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00 – 1:40 p.m. every week. […]
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 […]
Essay Due Dates Essay 1 due: Sunday, July 20 (See Week 01 (Short) for details). Essay 2 due: Sunday, Essay Final Draft due: Sunday, July 27 (See Week 2 for details). Essay 3 due: Sunday, August 3. (Research Essay) (See Week 3 for details) Essay 4 due: Sunday, August 10 […]
BMCC Grading System A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F 93 – 100 90 – 92 87 – 89 83 – 86 80 – 82 77 – 79 73 – 76 70 – 72 67 – 69 63 – 66 60 – 62
All quizzes (except for final) must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday of each week. Quiz 1: Thesis Statements – Due Sunday, 7/20 Quiz 2: Literary Terms – Due Sunday, 7/27 Quiz 3: Format and Quoting – Due Sunday 8/3 Quiz 4: Poetry – Due Sunday, 8/10 Quiz 5: […]
A Message from the Writing Center The Writing Center supports writing across the curriculum by working with students and faculty to maximize the effectiveness of writing projects and student awareness of best practices. We work with all students who have writing projects, including those from the Social Sciences, Critical Thinking […]
Help with Sentence Structure Run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments are the most common errors in essays. Please review the quick guide below for correcting these mistakes in sentence structure. For correcting run-on sentences and comma splices, review this PDF file. For correcting sentence fragments, click this link for a short video. Sentence […]
