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ENG 350 ( American Literature I ) Entire Course
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350 Full Course
ENG
350 Module 1 DQ 1
Max
Points: 5.0
If myths
are defined as truths important to a particular culture, what underlying truths
or values might be described in the Iroquois and Navajo creation myths?
How are the myths similar and different to the biblical creation story
described in the first three chapters of Genesis?
ENG
350 Module 1 DQ 2
What
problems stood in the way of the arriving Europeans living in peace and harmony
with the Native American populations? What different attitudes did the
explorers have toward the natives, and what were their varying purposes for writing
about the New World?
ENG
350 Week 1 Assignment Response Paper 1 Colonizers’ Expectations Essay
Details:
While
the earliest European explorers of the Americas were Scandinavians in the 10th
century, it was not until Columbus’ explorations that significant numbers of
Europeans came to the Americas. When they did arrive, they had certain
expectations about what they would find. Address the following question in an
essay (200-300 words): What were the expectations and thoughts of the explorers
and colonizers who came to America?
Prepare
this assignment according to the MLA guidelines found in the MLA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
ENG
350 Module 2 DQ 1
Consider
the predominantly religious perspective Puritans had toward their environment
and its peoples. How do the various Puritan writers describe (using many
different genres) hardship, success, loss of life, transition, community,
government, family, etc. through religious means?
ENG
350 Module 2 DQ 2
Consider
the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Michael Wigglesworth.
What are their different purposes in writing poetry? How do their subject
matter and poetic style differ from one another?
ENG
350 Week 2 Response Paper 2 Puritans in America Essay
Details:
Religion
plays a central role in the Puritans’ settlement in America. William Bradford,
John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet and other Puritan colonizers all explain their
existence through the lens of their religious faith. Address the following
question in an essay (200-300 words): How did Puritan religious fervor and
sentiment affect the way they established the colonies, including Plymouth and
Massachusetts Bay? Use William Bradford and John Winthrop or Anne Bradstreet
in your discussion of the establishment of colonies.
Prepare
this assignment according to the MLA guidelines found in the MLA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
ENG
350 Module 3 DQ 1
Discuss
Benjamin Franklin, William Byrd, and John and Abigail Adams as representatives
of the Enlightenment. How do their writings reveal the shift from a belief in Providence,
as can be seen in Jonathan Edwards’ sermons, to faith and self-reliance on the
individual?
ENG
350 Module 3 DQ 2
Thomas
Paine and Phillip Freneau are credited with helping to inspire the Revolution.
How and why would their writings have appealed to the average man? How
did they advocate the Revolutionary cause?
ENG
350 Week 3 Assignment Collaborative Learning Community: Federalist and
Anti-Federalist Debate
Details:
This is
a CLC assignment.
The
conclusion of the Revolutionary War did not mean the cessation of disagreements
about the form of government the colonies should take. Fierce debate took place
over the new Constitution. Federalists argued for a strong national government
as put forth by the Constitution. Anti-Federalists believed that such a
government gave too much power to the national government. They were persuaded
that there was a need for a bill of rights to curtail such power. The
instructor will assign you to a team that will take an assigned side in what
was a raucous debate.
Establish
your team’s position as Federalist or anti-Federalist by explaining the
respective arguments.
Provide
support for your argument from what colonists had experienced at that point in
history. You will verbally confront and refute the opposition.
Finally,
predict the bright future of America if it follows your side’s suggestion about
government. Submit the assignment in the most persuasive format your team can
imagine.
ENG
350 Module 4 DQ 1
Romanticism
emerged in Germany and England at the end of the 18th century. The movement came to America
in the early 19th century, particularly with writers
like Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catherine Maria Sedgwick.
What characteristics of Romanticism are expressed in their writings?
ENG
350 Module 4 DQ 2
Ralph
Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were on the forefront of a new movement
that came to be called transcendentalism. What transcendental ideals do
Emerson and Thoreau’s writings express? In what ways do their ideas differ
from one another?
ENG
350 Week 4 Assignment Response Paper 3 Thoreau Essay
Details:
Many
readers take issue with some of Thoreau’s suggestions, which are sometimes
purposely outrageous to provoke thought. Consider at least one of Thoreau’s suggestions
for living found in your readings. Examine the suggestion, pointing out some
problems with applying it to real life.
Respond
to the following question in an essay (200-300 words): What is Thoreau’s
purpose in proposing this example?
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
Prepare
this assignment according to the MLA guidelines found in the MLA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
ENG
350 Module 5 DQ 1
What
writers present the most convincing arguments against slavery? How are their
arguments formed? What evidence do they use? Why do you find these texts
convincing?
ENG
350 Module 5 DQ 2
Frederick
Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and Sojourner Truth all speak
from experience about the toll slavery took on the human spirit and about the
resilience of that same spirit in the midst of brutal conditions. In what
ways do these writers present both the damaged and the resilient human spirits
of the African American population?
ENG
350 Week 5 Assignment Mini Research Essay
Details:
Mary
Rowlandson’s “A Narrative of the Captivity
and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” is a captivity narrative. Harriet
Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl is a slave
narrative. While they are considered distinctive genres, they share some
characteristics. Review these writings from your assigned readings.
Address
the following questions in an essay (1,000-1,250 words):
1.
How are they similar?
2.
How are they different? (Be sure to provide evidence from the
texts to support your conclusions.)
3.
Why was the slave narrative such a compelling and persuasive
genre to use in arguing for the abolition of slavery? (Be sure to provide
evidence from the texts to support your conclusions.)
Prepare
this assignment according to the MLA guidelines found in the GCU MLA Style
Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
ENG
350 Module 6 DQ 1
Considering
readings from both module 5 and module 6, in what texts can you identify
“overlap” between the abolitionist and feminist causes. What arguments are made
for both liberty and women’s rights? Why, for many women writers, did
these two causes align?
ENG
350 Module 6 DQ 2
As was
true of male writers, women writers were not united in all their views. What do
you see as relevant differences in the writing of the women of this
period? What impediments to change did women face?
ENG
350 Week 6 Assignment Response Paper 4 Women and Social Issues Essay
Details:
Women
expressed themselves through writings and in public forums in a much greater
way in the mid-19th century. Even in poetry, writers like Lydia Howard Huntley
Sigourney and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft presented their opinions on particular
social concerns.
Choose
one of Sigourney’s poems from the readings and identify the particular societal
issue the author is addressing.
Answer
the following question in an essay (200-300 words): What issue is Sigourney
addressing in this poem, and how does the poem communicate the author’s message
regarding that issue?
Prepare
this assignment according to the MLA guidelines found in the MLA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
ENG
350 Module 7 DQ 1
Consider
the following themes, motifs, and symbols present within Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
masterpiece The Scarlet Letter:
the nature of evil, the role of sin, guilt in public versus private life,
revenge, night and day, civilization and the wilderness, Pearl, the meteor,
isolation and community. Select one or more of these and explain how Hawthorne
draws out this theme, motif, or symbol in the novel.
ENG
350 Module 7 DQ 2
Max
Points: 5.0
In
addition to many great Romantic texts, the mid-nineteenth century saw the rise
of literary criticism. Consider Poe and Melville’s critical essays.
What do they think makes a good story? How do their stories “The Fall of the
House of Usher,” The Black Cat,” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener” hold up under
their own criteria? What makes literary criticism like this significant to the
study of literature as an academic discipline?
ENG
350 Week 7 Assignment Response Paper 5 The Puritan “A” Essay
Details:
To the
Puritans, the “A” was an unambiguous emblem signifying adultery, but Hester
Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter invests the letter with a series of
possible alternative meanings.
In an
essay (450-500 words), discuss the Puritan’s literal use of the “A” and the
significance it had in Puritan religion. Also, name two alternate meanings of
the “A” and explain what Hawthorne implies in presenting differing meanings. Be
sure to provide evidence from the text to support your explanations.
Prepare
this assignment according to the MLA guidelines found in the MLA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
ENG
350 Module 8 DQ 1
Walt
Whitman breaks with poetic tradition by inventing and writing in free
verse. How is his poetry radically different in form, style and content
from contemporary poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John
Greenleaf Whittier, and Edgar Allan Poe?
ENG
350 Module 8 DQ 2
Max
Points: 5.0
Dickinson
is famous for her short poems that also break with tradition. Her poetry
experiments with form (uses dashes, often includes “off” or “slant” rhymes) and
is set apart in subject matter with bold themes and startling imagery that come
through compressed statements. Select one or more of Dickinson’s poems
from the readings (be sure to list the first line of the poem) and explain
specifically how the poem shows experimentation in form and daring subject
matter. Why do you find this particular poem so interesting?
ENG
350 Week 8 Assignment Response Paper 6 Literary Worth Essay
Details:
Develop
three criteria for identifying literary worth. For this assignment, you will
presume to make decisions about what determinations should be used to decide
who will be read in the classrooms of college English students. You might
develop your ideas for inclusion around considerations of who the literature
would represent. Or maybe you will decide that established literary tradition
should be part of your formula for deciding who is “in” and who is to be left
out.
Apply
your three criteria to the poetry of Emily Dickinson. In your response,
discuss how her poetry is characteristic of the literary break found in
traditional 19th century poetry. Note some of the
similarities and differences between Dickinson’s and Whitman’s poetic style.
In an
essay (750-1,000 words), define your criteria and evaluate Dickinson’s poetry.
Prepare
this assignment according to the MLA guidelines found in the MLA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
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