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Activity 1
Click this link for a good discussion entitled “How to Read a Poem” from Poets.org.
Provided by: Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College. Located at: http://eli.nvcc.edu/. License: CC BY: Attribution
Activity 2
Click this link to access “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” on the Poets.org website. Click the audio icon, and you will hear a very memorable and dramatic recitation of the poem by the author himself.
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is characterized as a lyric poem. In ancient Greece lyric poems were sung to the music of a stringed instrument called a lyre. Today, however, a lyric poem is generally considered to be a short poem, expressed in vivid language and imagery, which conveys the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.
OER source: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lake-isle-innisfree
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Activity 3
Click this link to access the poem “My Last Duchess”
on on the Commonlit website. This is written as a monologue and is an example of a dramatic poem.
Activity 4
Click this link for my video lecture on “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.
Activity 5
Click this link to access the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Tretheway. This is an example of a narrative poem.
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Activity 6
Please read “We Real Cool” and “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Activity 7
Essay 3 due: Wednesday, November 25, 11:59 p.m.
In this class, you have been developing one single research essay over the course of the 15-week semester.
For the final draft of your research essay, you will be incorporating your secondary source(s) into the corrected version of your first draft essay. Please be sure that your secondary source information is relevant to and supports your thesis (point of comparison between the two works of literature).
It will take me a little while to get back to you with your corrected drafts, but you can still be planning this final draft. I will be using voice comments in response to your submissions, rather than text comments, to speed this process. Your final draft must be 3-4 pages in length with an additional Works Cited page. Please read all directions carefully and follow the outline given. Click here to access essay directions.
All essays in this class must adhere to MLA format. Before submitting any written work, please review the following guides to formatting. Only correctly formatted essays will be eligible for a grade of A.
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Activity 7
Please click this link to access the Week 12 Discussion Board.
