--Week One--

Welcome to our ENG 102! This blog is our assignment space and network hub. If you have questions, my contact information is on the syllabus as well as under the section titled "About" on this blog.

Class Meeting
  1. Read/Discuss: Syllabus/Packets/ Assignments and Grading Form
  2. Dr. X Presents Writing (as) Process:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LI5NHYXqRwGDWkApEgknHYL7asBbn2UYIMDtCSBLo9k/edit?usp=sharing
  3. The Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Challenge
  4. Fill this information FORM.
  5. Join: GoogleDrive/Groups
    • Create your Google account HERE, if needed.
    • Create a Google Drive Folder and add it to our Shared Class Folder by following the instructions on the whiteboard
  6. Follow: How to download Kindred
  7. Fill out this Symbol and Allusion FORM 
Homework
By next Friday at 9:00AM: 
  1.  Read "Poetic Language" and "10 Steps I follow when analyzing a poem"  (packet,  pages 10-11). See this theory in action in my analysis of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" (pages 12-17; poem on page 22).  Submit one question or comment about any of the information on these pages to this FORM. We will discuss your questions and more next class.
  2. Complete Journal 1 on "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (1852) by Frederick Douglass.
Ongoing until 9/27 by 9:00AM
    1. Read "Poems for Presentation and Quiz" closely (packet, pages 18-20)
    2. Study the Literary Terms for Poetry in this PRESENTATION (or this PDF)
    3. Take the Quiz on Literary Terms I and Poems on Blackboard
Ongoing during Poetry Unit: Get and read Octavia E. Butler's Kindred.
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