Thursday, 2 January 2025

Reading prompts for the class of January 8

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   Choose one of the following questions and comment on it in the box below: 1. What symbolic undertones can be ascribed to the wall and how...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Reading prompts for the class of December 20

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 1. James,  by Percival Everett, is contemporary a remake of Huckleberry Finn , where Jim would rather be called "James" instead o...
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Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Reading prompts for the class of December 13 - Emily Dickinson

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 Choose either of these prompts and use the comment box to answer: 1. "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" (anthology p. 21...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Reading prompts for the class of December 6

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 Here are two questions that can prepare you for the upcoming test. The latter one follows the phrasing of the second question in the test: ...
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Thursday, 28 November 2024

Reading prompts for the class of December 4 - Walt Whitman (anthology, pp. 176-187)

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 1.  Write a text analysis of the initial excerpt of “Song of Myself” from the beginning until “the song / of me rising from bed and meeting...
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Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Reading prompts for the class of November 29

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 1. Consider the quotation below from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" (anthology, p. 164 [38 of the source text]) aand r...
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Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Reading prompts for the class of Nov. 22 - 2 questions about Huck Finn (chapters 22 and 28)

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 1 Write a literaty text analysis of the following excertpt from chapter 22 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Suggested topics : impor...
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