Read the following chapters in Children’s Literature, Briefly:
* Chapter 11: Modern Fantasy
After reading the assigned chapters, please post to the forum using the QQTP method:
* Quotation that you feel is significant and memorable. Let us know why you chose it, what is significant for you. You could be agreeing or disagreeing with the statement.
* Questions about the data used, arguments made, information provided.
* Talking Points. Indicate at least five major talking points. Briefly discuss each. Might include: Why is it significant to you? Do you agree or disagree? How might you apply?
Using the website below, browse the top 100 science fiction and fantasy novels as voted on by NPR listeners. Then, write a reflection about a couple of the books that you have read from the list , telling us about your overall experiences with science fiction and fantasy. Are there any books you think should have made the list that did not?
After watching the above video, write a half page response in which you describe the author’s writing craft, what age you believe children would be interested in the books, and your personal response to what you watched.
Identify a major purchase or event in your life such as buying a car, selecting a college, completing a Do-It-Yourself project, creating a project at work, purchasing appliances, or planning an event.
Reflect on the steps you went through when researching a major purchase or planning for an event. In your reflection,
Explain how you applied the steps of the research process from Section 1.3 of the textbook as you conducted your inquiry. If you missed a step, explain why.
Describe the connection between information literacy and the inquiry you conducted to support your decision-making process.
Discuss how using the steps of the research process may help you complete
Locate a scholarly article from Galileo examining either the The Prince or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Do not select an article that just explicates the literary work; instead, choose an article that goes beyond our course materials and examines an aspect of the philosophical, cultural, or literary significance of the work
Create a Works Cited entry for that article using MLA format.
Write a 1 1/2 to 2 page analysis of that article that answers the following:
What is the thesis statement of the article?
Scholarly articles usually cite other scholars, and then agree or disagree with them. In the article you’ve chosen, identify at least two quotations from other scholars and describe the author’s response to them.
Evaluate the proof provided in support of the author’s position.
Scholarly article authors often assume readers are familiar with terminology and theories from their field of study.
Identify 2-3 literary terms, historical periods, and/or theories you are unfamiliar with. Look these up in one of the following locations; then describe them in your paper.
For this assignment, you will read your selected work of literature , and then carefully summarize and analyze it. Please note the difference between summary and analysis , and be sure to clearly distinguish between summary and analysis . The assignment should be a minimum of 500 words, although it may be longer if necessary. This assignment constitutes 10% or 100 points of your total course grade.
In order to better summarize and analyze your chosen text, you may find it helpful to keep the four rhetorical elements in mind when summarizing and analyzing. When necessary, provide additional support for the types of support used which the audience is supposed to “know.”
Be sure to cite the work correctly in-text and on a Work Cited page. Even if you do not use any outside sources for this assignment, you must cite your selected work of literature both through in-text citations and on a Works Cited page.
In the wake of Romanticism & into Realism: Mallarmé, Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog”
(a) First, read the introduction to Realism .
(b) Keeping those ideas on realism in mind and drawing upon them as you respond to this set of inquiries, which may seem uncharacteristic for this class, be prepared for a peppering of formalist questions about your reading of Leo Tolstoy and “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”: What two best-known novels did Tolstoy write? Who is considered the other “great” Russian novelist, and what are his two best-known novels?
Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilych follows what middle-class profession? Does Ivan’s marriage reflect a middle-class attitude toward marriage, in that middle-class people tend to get married to any reasonably suitable person as soon as marriage becomes economically and socially possible and desirable? What accident to what part of his body sets Ivan on a course of slow, horrifying death? Into how many numbered sections is the story of Ivan Ilych divided? How does the irritation of Ivan’s wife and daughter with his illness reflect middle-class attitudes toward sickness and death?
In general, how are we in the middle class tolerant/intolerant of sickness and death? Who is the only non-family member of Ivan’s household to show compassion and understanding for him? Ivan’s final agony occurs over how many days?
Formalist critics love to note the symbolism connecting Ivan to whom? What question about his former life bothers Ivan almost to the moment he dies? Once he resolves this question, he is able to get outside of himself. The pain doesn’t go away, but what other people is he able to think about instead of himself?
(c) What are your thoughts about such Formalist questions as those above?
FOR ALL FORUMS GOING FORWARD, initial responses will not do; our text’s editor’s perspectives on author, era, and larger sections, within which the readings fall, must be consulted and drawn from in your connections/reflections. REREAD this passage carefully!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnets, especially XLIII, from her book Sonnets from the Portuguese, are some of the most recognizable of all English sonnets.
Can she write about love or what? Read the four sonnets, then find an article of literary criticism from a literary journal using a database like JSTOR or ProQuest through ASU’s library, and see what a critic has to say about any of her sonnets—whether it is about the four sonnets in our anthology or other poems by her. Share a point from the scholarly article that you think is salient. And cite the source, and page number, which requires selecting the option to open the article/file in .pdf.
Write a response to only one of the following questions.
Use this link for one of the readings
1. Analyze one set of Surah(s) as given here:
What is the basis of its poetic quality? To what conclusions do you arrive at after reading this particular Surah(s) that contradict prevalent notions of Islam through the western gaze? In what ways do you draw “power” from this text? In order to build your thesis, do feel free to utilize the historical and contextual knowledge provided in my PPT lesson.
2. The Qur’an is essentially a text of transmission through recitation and interpretation through careful study. Through your readings of a select sura(s) and/or ayats, and the frames provided in my lecture, how do you contradict larger stereotypical western notions about the Qur’an? Do you find your new readings empowering or powerful and why? That is, your paper should not reflect tired old western stereotypes, but instead, share a new understanding or epiphany you had after reading the text and listening to the lesson. Avoid dealing with all the issues in one paper, but rather, focus in and talk on one key theme that arises for you and use that to build a thesis for your paper.
3. Mysticism is at once a way to God and possibly an insurrection against orthodoxies of religion. How do you understand some of the transgressions staged in the poetics of at least two poets in this tradition? Choose your pairing carefully of mystics and read their poetry closely to make your points.
You are expected to cite knowledge you gain from my PPT and audio lecture for this paper. Where and what exactly can you articulate is the power of these mystical texts? As you choose the two mystics you will write about, be sure to contextualize their time, place, and your intention in bringing them together in your paper.
