~The Victorian Period~
Tuesday, March 31st: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, March 30th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Thomas Carlyle, from Past and Present: “Midas,” “Democracy,” and “Captains of Industry” (BABL B: 632-635, 640-646, 646-650)
Literary Terms: non-fiction prose
Thursday, April 2nd: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 1st at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children” (BABL B 786-788)
Tennyson, “Ulysses” (BABL B 830-831)
Literary Terms: dramatic monologue/persona poem/dramatic poem
Tuesday, April 7th: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, April 6th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” (BABL B 910)
Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi” (BABL B 920-925)
Literary terms: dramatic monologue/persona poem/dramatic poem
Thursday, April 9th: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 8th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Manchester Marriage” (BABL B 893-907)
Literary Terms: short story
~The Turn of the Twentieth Century~
Tuesday, April 14th: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, April 13th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush” and “Channel Firing” (BABL B 1092-1093, 1095-1096)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur” (BABL B 1102)
~World War I~
Thursday, April 16th: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 15th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Wifred Owen, “A Terre” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” (BABL B 1346-1347, 1350
Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (BABL B 1338-1340)
Isaac Rosenberg, “Break of Day in the Trenches” (BABL B 1342)
Literary Terms: stanza, lyric
~Modernism~
Tuesday, April 21st: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, April 20th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (BABL B 1399-1403)
Woolf, “Kew Gardens” (BABL B 1391-1394)
Literary Terms: modernism, stream-of-consciousness
Don’t forget to evaluate the course!
~Post-Colonial Writing~
Thursday, April 23rd: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Derek Walcott, “Ruins of a Great House” (BABL B 1701-1702)
Seamus Heaney, “Digging” (BABL B 1712)
Grace Nichols, “Epilogue” (BABL B 1821)
Moniza Alvi, “How the World Split in Two” (BABL B 1825)
Jackie Kay, “In My Country” (BABL B 1830)
Warsan Shire, “Backwards” (BABL B 1835)
Literary Terms: allusion, free verse, lyric poetry
Don’t forget to evaluate the course!
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