Write about your experience of reading the entire poem or song. Draw one conclusion about the meaning of the poem. Give the poem or song a rating between 1-5. Defend your evaluation of the poem or song in comparison to the other poems or songs in the casebook and why.

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Zooming in on a Poem

  • Choose one casebook (for example, parent-child poems), read the casebook poems/songs. Find at least one poem and one song of the assigned poems or songs in your casebook.
  • Copy and paste the poem or lyrics after your entry.
  • Number the lines.
  • Write four paragraphs.

In the first paragraph, write about your experience of reading the entire poem or song.

In your second paragraph, draw one conclusion about the meaning of the poem. Find two or more images, phrases, or lines (up to four) that contribute to the meaning you’ve given the poem. Why do you think it contributes to the conclusion about meaning you’ve given the poem? That is, interpret, something in the poem–a word, phrases, a line, a short stanza–that supports that conclusion and state how or why it means what you say it means.

In your third paragraph, give the poem or song a rating between 1-5. Defend your evaluation of the poem or song in comparison to the other poems or songs in the casebook and why. Be sure to name the other poems and songs and use specifics.

In your forth paragraph, explain what you learned about the difference between experiencing, interpreting and evaluating

 

Discuss the company’s approach to CSR, their action, and results, etc.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Produce a research paper on a company of your choice.

You can select a company from the article or select any company of your choice.

  • Article link: https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/best-corporate-responsibility-companies

Discuss the company’s approach to CSR, their action, and results, etc.

Compare and contrast Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” with Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.” Is this critique evident in both stories? If so, is it more thorough in one story than in the other? As ever, argue, evince, quote, analyze, explain.

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In The Portable American Realism Reader (Penguin 1977) James Nagel writes about “the dominant theme in Naturalism of pessimistic Determinism, the notion that characters are the victims of Promethean [gargantuan, let’s say] forces of heredity, society, and a hostile nature, powers outside the control of the protagonists…” (xxviii). Nagel goes on to say that “Naturalistic fiction is often set in a hostile environment, in urban slums, in rural poverty, in the jungle, or the arctic” (xxviii). The suggestion is that Naturalists place their protagonists in such “hostile environment[s]” in order to dramatize just how little “control” human beings really have. Bearing this Naturalistic critique of control in mind, compare and contrast Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” with Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.” Is this critique evident in both stories? If so, is it more thorough in one story than in the other? As ever, argue, evince, quote, analyze, explain.

Write a paragraph in which you analyze “My First Police Stop” and explain who you think is the intended audience and what the main idea is that the author is trying to get across. Share one or two of the descriptions you feel were the most effective in the essay. Why were these descriptions effective? What did they do for the piece?

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D3E

“My First Police Stop,” by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (pp. 656-659), is a descriptive piece. Write a paragraph in which you analyze “My First Police Stop” and explain who you think is the intended audience (Hint: look at where it was first published) and what the main idea (or thesis) is that the author is trying to get across. Share one or two of the descriptions you feel were the most effective in the essay. Why were these descriptions effective? What did they do for the piece?

Write a fully developed paragraph in which you describe your topic using only the most effective descriptions from your list.

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WA2

Choose one of the following topics for your descriptive paragraph.

  • An object you cherish
  • Your childhood bedroom
  • Your worst enemy
  • A stranger in a crowd
  • A funny memory
  • A favorite place
  • Your first car

Make an informal list of all the details you can think of related to your topic. A listing template is provided. Look over your list and consider which details are the most descriptive, and the most effective for your main idea.

Write a fully developed paragraph in which you describe your topic using only the most effective descriptions from your list. Work to SHOW your topic to your readers rather than just tell about it.

Explain the problem that this writer addresses. Which ideas in the proposal make sense to you? Which ideas do you question?

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Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure

Write a response to this week’s reading: “Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure” (471-73).
This reading is a sample of a proposal, a genre of writing in which the author defines a problem and provides possible solutions.
Explain the problem that this writer addresses.
Which ideas in the proposal make sense to you?
Which ideas do you question?

What is the purpose of peer review? Who are your peers? When is peer review useful and effective, and what can cause peer review to feel like a waste of time?

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D2E

What is the purpose of peer review? Who are your peers? When is peer review useful and effective, and what can cause peer review to feel like a waste of time?

How persuasive is the overall claim? How persuasive is the evidence offered in support of that claim? Which evidence did you find most convincing? Which did you find problematic? Why?

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Critical Response Worksheet

Read Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill” and Julia Stephen’s “Notes from Sick Rooms.” Then complete the Critical Response Worksheet below for one of these texts. (The worksheet is also attached as a pdf. The readings appear as the next two items in the module as well as in the Week Four Texts module).Complete steps A through D for one of the following readings: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill,” or Julia Stephen’s “Notes from Sickrooms.”

  1. Vocabulary: While you are reading, find five to ten words that are difficult or unfamiliar, and look up the part of speech, etymology and definition for each. Write them down.
  2. Evidence Analysis: While you are reading, list the key evidence (testimonial, emotional, logical). Based on the evidence, respond to the overall text. To what extent is the argument justified? How persuasive is the overall claim? How persuasive is the evidence offered in support of that claim? Which evidence did you find most convincing? Which did you find problematic? Why?
  3. Thematic Analysis: While you are reading, write three quotations from the text and explain how they connect to its major themes (its main point or points.)
  4. Questions for Clarification: While you are reading, write five to ten questions about this reading that address either what you didn’t understand or that connect to the themes of the text.

 

In his keynote poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes often discusses the complexity of race-relations. Explain using examples from his work.

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Harlem Renaissance poem

In his keynote poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes often discusses the complexity of race-relations. Explain using examples from his work.

Explain the backround of school shootings. Define the issue about school shootings. Explain why its a issue. What action can stop school shootings?

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School Shootings

Explain the background of school shootings.
Define the issue about school shootings (with evidence).
Explain why its a issue.
What action can stop school shootings ? (proposed solution )
Anecdote