Week 1 – Assignment 1
Discussion

Autobiography

By Monday, June 26, 2017, post your autobiography in the W1
Assignment 1 Discussion Area.

When you write your autobiography, let your classmates know
who you are. Where are you living? What is your major? What are your career
goals? What are some interesting things about you? For instance, what are your
hobbies? What do you do when you just want to get away from it all?

Since this is a composition and literature course, how about
including some information about what you like to read? Do you ever write for
fun? If so, what sorts of things do you like to write? End by sharing at least
two goals you hope to achieve in this course.

By Tuesday, June 27, 2017, read and respond to several of
your classmates’ autobiographies. Let them know what interesting people they
are and tell them why.

Note: This is an ungraded assignment but participation in it
helps to establish your attendance in the course.

Week 1 – Assignment 2
Discussion

Imagery in Poetry

By Wednesday, June 28, 2017, complete and post your
assignment to the Discussion Area.

By the end of the week, comment on at least two of your
classmates’ submissions. Remember that your replies should help your classmates
expand, clarify, defend, and/or refine their work. You can ask questions and
use declarative sentences to express your thoughts. Be sure to be honest,
clear, and concise, referring to specific words and passages from your
classmates’ work. Always use constructive language, and avoid negative language;
work toward using a tone and spirit of intellectual curiosity and discovery.
Your responses to your peers’ writing should include specifics if you are
attempting to make a point.

Respond to the following:

Choose one poem from among this week’s assigned readings
except “The Chimney Sweeper,” which was used as an example in this week’s
lecture. Post a response of at least 150 words.

Identify a number of key images in the poem which you
believe are vital to understanding it and provide a detailed discussion of how
those images function in the poem.

Do the images work together to form a coherent pattern?

What ideas or feelings are conveyed by the images the author
has selected?

How do they contribute to the overall meaning of the poem?

Remember to provide evidence for your claims in the form of
excerpts (a word, phrase, or line, as appropriate) from the poem. Quotations,
paraphrases, and summaries used in the assignment should be arranged according
to APA rules of style, and in-text and reference citations should be provided,
also formatted in APA style. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of the
document.

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.

Week 1 – Assignment 3
Discussion

Assignment 3: Draft
Analytical Essay about Poetry

By Saturday, July 1, 2017, submit your essay as a Microsoft
Word document to the W1: Assignment 3 Discussion Area at the bottom of the
page.

By Sunday, July 2, 2017 comment on at least two of your
classmate’s submissions using the peer review questions provided below.

The essay assignment for this week is to compose a paper of
at least 750 words in which you offer your interpretation of a key theme in one
of the assigned poems. You may choose any poem from the reading list except for
“The Chimney Sweeper.” If you wish, you may base your paper on the analysis you
began in this week’s discussion question. If you get “stuck,” read your chosen
poem again with a pen in hand so you can make notes. Do not hesitate to share
your initial ideas with your classmates and the instructor.

You should open your essay with an introductory paragraph
that engages the reader and presents your poem and author. End your
introduction with a thesis statement that interprets one literary element of
the poem (such as theme, imagery, symbolism, or characterization).

Each paragraph following the introduction should present
specific aspects of the poem that help to illustrate and support your thesis.
Make sure to quote and analyze specific lines that support your argument.

Include a concluding paragraph at the end that summarizes
the main points of the paper and explains the significance of the thesis.

You may use this sample student paper as an example. If you
need help formulating your thesis, please contact your instructor.

You do not need to do outside research for this essay.
Instead, look at the sample student essay on “The Chimney Sweeper” and use your
textbook to find other models.

Apply APA rules of style to source citations as well as the
overall formatting of your essay. Be sure to include a title page and a
References page.

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.

This handout will help guide you in the details of
formatting your essay using APA style.

You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.

When responding to your peers please answer the following
questions:

Locate the paper’s thesis. Is it obvious or unclear? Does it
establish an interpretation of a key theme from the poem? Is the thesis as
specific as it needs to be?

Is each paragraph organized around one key point? Do topic
sentences clearly indicate the focus of each paragraph?

Does the author support each main point with direct
quotations from the poem that are analyzed and explained? Do you have any
suggestions for improvement?

Where do you disagree with the author’s analysis? What
aspects of the poem are left unexplained?

Week 2 – Assignment 1
Discussion

Assignment 1: Symbolism and Metaphor in Poetry

By Wednesday, July 5, 2017, complete and post your
assignment to the Discussion Area.

By the end of the week, comment on at least two of your
classmates’ submissions. Remember that your replies should help your classmates
expand, clarify, defend, and/or refine their work. You can ask questions and
use declarative sentences to express your thoughts. Be sure to be honest,
clear, and concise, referring to specific words and passages from your
classmates’ work. Always use constructive language, and avoid negative
language; work toward using a tone and spirit of intellectual curiosity and
discovery. Your responses to your peers’ writing should include specifics if
you are attempting to make a point.

Question

Choose one poem from among those you were assigned this
week. Post a response of at least 150 words.

Discuss how symbols or metaphors are used in the poem you
chose for this assignment.

Identify the key symbol(s) or metaphor(s) within the work.

Explain the meanings they convey to readers.

How do these elements enrich the poem and deepen your understanding
of its themes?

Remember that claims in all parts of the assignment should
be substantiated by excerpts from appropriate sources. Use APA rules of style
for quotations, paraphrases, and summaries as well as in-text citations and
references. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of your response.

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.

Post your response in the Discussion Area below.

When you are responding to the posts of your classmates:

Discuss any similarities or differences you have with their
interpretations.

Did their conclusions help you to see the poem any
differently than your first impression of the work?

Elaborate on any key points.

Week 2 – Assignment 2

Assignment 2: Revised Analytical Essay about Poetry

By Saturday, July 8, 2017, submit as a Microsoft Word
document your revised analytical essay about poetry to the W2: Assignment 2
Dropbox.

This week you will have the opportunity to revise the essay
you wrote in Week 1 based on the feedback and suggestions you received from
your instructor and peers.

Retrieve the essay you submitted to the Assignment 3
Discussion Area in Week 1 along with the feedback that you received from your
instructor and peers. The next step is to revisit the poem and gather any
passages from it that will add to your essay (unless your Week 1 essay already
includes sufficient excerpts from the poem to substantiate your argument).

Open a new Word document and copy and paste only the
introduction of the Week 1 essay onto it. Review any feedback that you got
about the introduction. Decide whether to revise the introduction based on that
feedback from your instructor and/or new ideas you have had since you first
wrote it. Then consider if the introduction will be strengthened by adding
material from the textbook or from the poem, such as quotes, paraphrase, and/or
summary. Remember that quoted material should never exceed 25% of the document.
Make any changes that you wish.

After that, or if you do not wish to revise the
introduction, copy and paste the next paragraph to your document and review it
the same way you did the introduction. Do this with all paragraphs in the paper
through the conclusion. As you work through this process, substantiate and
reinforce (when necessary and appropriate) your argument at key junctures by
including quotations and summaries.

Now that you have copied, pasted, and revised all the
essay’s paragraphs, use the spell-check tool in Microsoft Word to identify any
misspellings. Make sure you have applied APA rules of style to source citations
as well as the overall formatting of your essay. Did you include a title page
and a References page?

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.

This handout will help guide you in the details of
formatting your essay using APA style.

Read through the paper again to fine tune the flow and look
for typos and glitches that spell check might have missed.

Name your essay Lastname_FirstInitial_ENG1300_W2A2 and
submit it to the W2: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Saturday, July 8, 2017.

Week 3 – Assignment 1
Discussion

Assignment 1: Glass Menagerie Discussion

By Wednesday, July 12, 2017, complete and post your
assignment to the Discussion Area.

By the end of the week, comment on at least two of your
classmates’ submissions. Remember that your replies should help your classmates
expand, clarify, defend, and/or refine their work. You can ask questions and
use declarative sentences to express your thoughts. Be sure to be honest, clear,
and concise, referring to specific words and passages from your classmates’
work. Always use constructive language, and avoid negative language; work
toward using a tone and spirit of intellectual curiosity and discovery. Your
responses to your peers’ writing should include specifics if you are attempting
to make a point.

Respond to the following:

Tennessee Williams provides extensive and detailed stage
directions for The Glass Menagerie. Readers are given a very specific account
of the play’s setting.

Review the stage directions and, in your discussion post,
identify the most important aspects of the setting.

Then, consider how these elements contribute to the central
ideas of the play.

Does the setting symbolically reflect the conflicts faced by
the characters?

Does it constrain and limit the characters?

Does it represent their desires and motivations?

Use APA rules of style for quotations, paraphrases, and
summaries as well as in-text citations and references. Quoted material should
not exceed 25% of your response.

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.

When you are responding to the posts of your classmates:

Discuss any similarities or differences you have with the
stage elements identified.

Did their conclusions help you to see The Glass Menagerie in
a different light?

Elaborate on any key points.

Week 3 – Assignment 2

Assignment 2: Analytical Essay about Drama

By Saturday, July 15, 2017, submit your Microsoft Word essay
to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Compose a 750-word paper in which you write a literary
analysis of The Glass Menagerie. Feel free to use the basic APA formatted
template.

Select and respond to one of questions from the list below.

The characters of The Glass Menagerie are limited and unable
for various reasons to obtain what they desire. Select one character from the
play. What does he or she desire? What prevents him or her from achieving it?
How does the play resolve the conflict between desire and reality for this
particular character?

Throughout the play, Amanda refers to Tom’s hope for a life
other than the one he has as selfish. Do you agree with this assessment? Does
Tom’s departure at the end of the play represent an unethical abandonment of
his responsibilities, or a necessary choice to escape the controlling nature of
his mother?

Audiences and critics of Williams’s play have often focused
on the glass menagerie and understood it to be the central symbol of the play.
What is the meaning of the menagerie? How does it help us to explain and
understand Laura Wingfield?

Please note:

Your answer to the question you select should serve as the
thesis of your paper. This thesis should be included in an introductory
paragraph.

The paragraphs following the introduction should support and
defend this thesis by analyzing and discussing specific examples and quotations
from the play.

Make sure to focus on the various literary elements we have
been discussing throughout this course.

Please format your paper using APA style. You may create your
essay in this APA-formatted template, or use this for guidance.

Use excerpts from the play to support your ideas. Include
in-text and reference citations using APA style. Use this APA Citation Helper
as a convenient reference. At this point, there is no need to use “outside”
sources to complete this essay. For now, your evidence should consist of
experiential knowledge (what you have learned throughout your life) and the
play’s text. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of the document.

Name your essay Lastname_FirstInitial_ENG1300_W3A2 and
submit it to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Saturday, July 15, 2017.

Week 4 Assignment 1 Discussion

Assignment 1: Point of View

By Wednesday, July 19, 2017, complete and post your
assignment to the Discussion Area.

By the end of the week, comment on at least two of your
classmates’ submissions. Remember that your replies should help your classmates
expand, clarify, defend, and/or refine their work. You can ask questions and
use declarative sentences to express your thoughts. Be sure to be honest,
clear, and concise, referring to specific words and passages from your
classmates’ work. Always use constructive language, and avoid negative
language; work toward using a tone and spirit of intellectual curiosity and
discovery. Your responses to your peers’ writing should include specifics if
you are attempting to make a point.

Address the following:

Select one of the stories assigned by your instructor. Post
a response of at least 150 words.

Identify the point of view used in the narration.

Discuss how this point of view affects your reading and
interpretation of the story.

How might a different type of narration (point of view)
alter the meaning of the story?

Provide at least two specific examples from the text to
illustrate and support your argument.

Guidelines

Point of view refers to the perspective from which the story
is narrated. Various points of view can be present in literature. Points of
view include:

First person: the story is told from the perspective of the
narrator, who is usually the protagonist, using first-person pronouns—I, me, or
we.

Second person: the narrator addresses readers as “you,”
which gives the audience the feeling that they are in or a part of the story.

Third person omniscient: the story is told using
third-person pronouns, such as he, she, or they, and the narrator is godlike in
his or her ability to see and know everything (omniscient).

Third person limited: the narrator tells the story using
third-person pronouns, but the narrator is not all knowing, for his or her
knowledge is limited to the perspective of one character.

Point of view has an impact on how we understand the story.
First-person narrators are often unreliable as they are telling the story from
their own subjective perspective. In fact, a first-person narrator may fail to
notice things that a careful reader will identify. Similarly, a third-person
omniscient narrator gives the illusion of complete knowledge or understanding,
suggesting to the reader that the story is a realistic account of life.

Remember that claims in all parts of the assignment should
be substantiated by excerpts from appropriate sources. Use APA rules of style
for quotations, paraphrases, and summaries as well as in-text citations and
references. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of your response.

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.

Post your response in the Discussion Area.

week 4 assignment 2 Discussion

Assignment 2: First Analytical Essay on Short Fiction

By Saturday, July 22, 2017, submit your essay as a Microsoft
Word document in an attachment to the Discussion Area at the bottom of the
page.

By Sunday, July 23, 2017, comment on at least two of your
classmate’s submissions using the peer review questions provided below.

Write your analysis focusing on one of the following
elements from one of the assigned short stories:

Character

Theme

Symbolism

Imagery

Setting

Point of view

In a 4-page (1,200-word) literary analysis, write an
in-depth analytical essay using your own ideas plus supporting evidence from
the text, such as quotations, paraphrases, and summaries, remembering that
quoted material should never exceed 25% of the essay.

Note: Next week you will have an opportunity to incorporate
into your essay scholarly source material that further substantiates your
argument. You may include such information in this week’s essay, but it is not
required at this point.

Start by selecting one of the short stories assigned by your
instructor this week. Brainstorm to identify a literary element in the text
that you would like to explore, such as character, theme, symbolism, imagery,
setting, or point of view. Then, develop a preliminary thesis that offers a
specific interpretation of this element.

If you have trouble coming up with a focus or thesis,
contact your instructor, who will help you brainstorm.

Next, develop an introduction that states your original
thesis (main claim) and briefly describes the story and author you will be
discussing.

The body of your essay should support and defend this thesis
with specific evidence taken from the text that you discuss thoroughly and
thoughtfully. Remember that no more than 25% of the essay can consist of direct
quotations.

Your essay should end with a concluding paragraph or two,
summarizing the key points of your paper and explaining the significance of
your interpretation. When finished, the paper should be at least 1,200 words
long (approximately 4 double-spaced pages).

Apply APA rules of style to source citations as well as the
overall formatting of your essay. Be sure to include a title page and a
References page.

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.

This handout will help guide you in the details of formatting
your essay using APA style.

You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.

When responding to your peers please answer the following
questions:

Locate the paper’s thesis. Is it obvious or unclear? Does it
establish an interpretation of a key theme from the story? Is the thesis as
specific as it needs to be?

Is each paragraph organized around one key point? Do topic
sentences clearly indicate the focus of each paragraph?

Does the author support each main point with direct
quotations from the story that are analyzed and explained? Do you have any
suggestions for improvement?

Where do you disagree with the author’s analysis? What
aspects of the story are left unexplained?

Week 5 – Assignment 1
Discussion

Assignment 1: Scholarly Article Annotation

By Week 5, Day 3, post your response to the Discussion Area.

By the end of the week, comment on at least two of your
classmates’ submissions. Remember that your replies should help your classmates
expand, clarify, defend, and/or refine their work. You can ask questions and
use declarative sentences to express your thoughts. Be sure to be honest,
clear, and concise, referring to specific words and passages from your
classmates’ work. Always use constructive language, and avoid negative
language; work toward using a tone and spirit of intellectual curiosity and
discovery. Your responses to your peers’ writing should include specifics if
you are attempting to make a point.

This week you will have the opportunity to practice the
skills of finding scholarly articles in the library. First, refer to the
lecture about conducting research in the South University Online Library. Next,
go to the library and find one credible, scholarly source examining the short
story that was the focus of your essay for W4: Assignment 2. Avoid popular
publications, such as magazines, newspapers, and other informational media that
are not research oriented. Try this Research Guide provided for this course by
South University Online Library Services.

Post an annotation of your source in the discussion board.
Your annotation should include:

A complete APA citation of your source. (APA Citation
Helper)

A 150-word summary of the argument and key points of your
source.

2–3 sentences explaining how the source is relevant to your
paper from Week 4.

Week 5 Assignment 2

Second Analytical Essay on Short Fiction

By Saturday, July 29, 2017, submit your second analytical
essay on short fiction to the W5 Assignment 2 Dropbox as a Microsoft Word file.

This week you will revise your Week 4 essay by incorporating
ideas and arguments from the outside source you located for your W5: Assignment
1 discussion.

Retrieve the essay you submitted to W4: Assignment 2 along
with the feedback that you received from your instructor. The next step is to
revisit the short story and gather any passages from it that will add to your
essay (unless your Week 4 essay already includes sufficient excerpts from the
short story to substantiate your argument).

Open a new Word document and copy and paste only the introduction
of the Week 4 essay into it. You may use this APA-formatted template. Review
any feedback that you received about the introduction. Decide whether to revise
the introduction based on the feedback from your instructor and/or new ideas
you have had since you first wrote it. Then consider if the introduction will
be strengthened by adding material from the source you found in the library or
from the short story, such as quotes, paraphrase, and/or summary. Quoted
material should not exceed 25% of the essay. Make any changes that you wish.

After that, or if you do not wish to revise the
introduction, copy and paste the next paragraph to your new document and review
it the same way you did the introduction. Do this with all paragraphs in the
paper through the conclusion. As you work through this process, substantiate
and reinforce (when necessary and appropriate) your argument at key junctures
by including quotes, paraphrase, and summary, sandwiching this source material
between signal phrases. You also have this Research Guide with links to useful
information for fine tuning your paper.

Once you have copied, pasted, and revised all the essay’s
paragraphs, use the spell-check tool in Microsoft Word to identify any
misspellings. Make sure you have applied APA rules of style to source citations
as well as the overall formatting of your essay. Include a title page and a
References page?

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.

This handout will help guide you with the details of
formatting your essay using APA style.

Read through the paper again to fine tune the flow and look
for typos and glitches that spell check might have missed.

Name your essay Lastname_FirstInitial_ENG1300_W5A2 and
submit it to the W5 Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Week 5 – Assignment 3
Discussion

Assignment 3: Final Reflections

By Saturday, July 29, 2017, post your response to the
Discussion Area.

During the past several weeks, you have explored challenging
and compelling literary works. Even though they vary in terms of genre, theme,
and ideology, they share many features and values. You have also been offered
opportunities to evaluate sources and hone your writing skills by developing
weekly essays. Throughout the course, you have been challenged to employ
critical thinking in order to analyze and interpret the literary readings.

Have you achieved the goals that you identified at the
beginning of the session? What else have you accomplished? Regardless of your
career plans, the reading, writing, and critical thinking that you did in this
course will support your ability to work effectively and efficiently in the
future, whether in another course or the workplace.