Assignments for the course will be posted here. The assignments are in PDF format.
Literary Period Responses
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Links to Reading Choices for Response
Sample Student Responses
On Addison's Essay by Johnny Brunz
Argumentative Essay Assignment
Sample Student Essays
Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe" and the Soul of Wit by Heidi Harris
The Rape of an Idle Society by Jennifer Gazvoda
From Man to Yahoo in Gulliver’s Travels by Harry Conley
Jonathan Swift: On Our Desire for Trust by Kerry West
The Borders of Idleness by Haik J. Movsisian
Engraving Injustice: William Blake’s Poetic and Illustrative Depictions of "The Chimney Sweeper" in Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Shannon Will
Sweeping the Ugliness Away: Blake’s Indictment of Institutionalized Religion by MaryAnn Orozco
Modest Beauty in Simon Lee by Jackie Lechtholz-Zey
City Life vs. The Natural World: This World Isn't Big Enough for the Both of Us by Cesar Castellanos
An Obscured Reality by Jitender Rajpoot