Poetry Paper Option
Students will be given the option to write a Poetry Paper rather than taking the Poetry Test.
Any student who took the Short Story Test must write the Poetry Paper. Any student who wrote the Short Story Paper must take the Poetry Test and is not eligible to write the Poetry Paper
| Topic | Discuss the nature of love, life, or death (choose only one). |
| Length | 500-750 words, typed. |
| Due | See Schedule Page. Submit final draft to Assignments section of Blackboard. |
As you address this issue, demonstrate your understanding of at least two of the poems we discussed in class and one additional poem named as "Recommended Reading" for Lit 2000.
Short Story Paper Option
Students will be given the option to write a Short Story Paper rather than taking the Short Story Test.
Any student who misses class on February 5th, 2007 will be required to write the Short Story Paper.
| Topic | Agree or disagree with the following formula: Happiness=1/Freedom. (This is the same as what I put on the board several times in class.) |
| Length | 500-750 words, typed. |
| Due | See Schedule Page. Submit final draft to Assignments section of Blackboard. |
As you address this issue, demonstrate your understanding of at least two of the short stories we discussed in class and at least one of the stories (not poems, plays or novels at this time) named as "Recommended Reading" for Lit 2000.
Do not hesitate to call me on my cell phone (904) 415-3097 if you are unsure if you understand this assignment.
| Stories | Poems | Plays | Novels |
| "Araby" by James Joyce | "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost | A Doll' s House by Henrik Ibsen | The Giver by Lois Lowry |
| "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" by Leslie Marmon Silko | Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 | Antigone by Sophocles | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradberry |
| "The Storm" by Kate Chopin | "La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats | Hamlet by William Shakespeare | The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis |
| "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick | Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller | 1984 by George Orwell |
| "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | "my sweet old etcetera" by ee cummings | A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry | Animal Farm by George Orwell |
| "Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway | "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost | Oedipus the King by Sophocles | We by Yevgeny Zamyatin |
| "A Good Man in Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor | "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson | A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
| "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce | "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen | The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams | China Run by David Ball |
| "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather | "in Just-" by ee cummings | Letter from Home by Carolyn Hart | |
| "Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe | "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | |
| "A&P" by John Updike | |||
| "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison | |||
| "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka | |||