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Intro to English Literature
Sample Midterm Exam
Lecture 1: Old English Poetry
Lecture 2: Middle English Poetry/ Chaucer
Lecture 3: Middle English Poetry-part II
Lecture 4: The Renaissance – Shakespeare
Lecture 5: Shakespeare – Part II
Lecture 6: Shakespeare – Part III
Lecture 7: Shakespeare – Part IIII
To be, or not to be
She should have died hereafter;
Shylock’s speech ‘If it will feed nothing…
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
Lecture 8: Shakespeare – The Sonnet
Shakespeare Q&A
Lecture 9: Talent Day
Lecture 10: Revision
Lecture 11: Marlowe and Jonson
Lecture 12: King James I, Drama, & the Puritans
Lecture 13:Renaissance Poetry
metaphysical poets
Lecture 14: John Donne’s School I – Features of Metaphysical poetry
“The Flea” by John Donne
John Donne. Holy Sonnet 10.
lecture 15: John Donne’s School II features of Metaphysical Poetry
Lecture 16: Metaphysical & Cavalier Poets
Lecture 17: Renaissance Prose
Prose in the Renaissance powerpoint slides
Lecture 18: Commonwealth & Restoration
lecture 19: John Milton
Lecture 20: Bunyan, Dryden & Satire
Lecture 21: The Augustan Age: The Novel
Lecture 22: The Novel: Defoe & Swift
Lecture 23: The Novel: Richardson, Fielding, & Sterne
Lecture 24: Augustan Poetry: Pope, Montagu, & Leapor
“Romanticism” powerpoint
Lecture 25: The Romantic Poets
William Blake The sick rose-
Lecture 26: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth ~ My Heart Leaps Up ~ The Rainbow
“Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
Lecture 27: Coleridge & Keats
Lecture 28: Shelley & Byron
Lecture 29:Mary Shelley & Jane Austen
Lecture 30: Victorian Literature: The Novel
Lecture 31: Female Victorian Novelists
Lecture 32: Victorian Poetry
Lecture 33: 20th Century Literature
Lecture 34: Introduction to English Literature: General Review
Introduction to E. Lit. Questions and stds’ input
Chapter one of the book
Course Portfolio: ideas and suggestions
Student ><Student
Reading the English version for “Men in the Sun” for Bonus
Students’ artistic/literary production for BONUS.
The Novel
‘Animal Farm’ extras
‘Animal Farm’ Q&A
Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ text
Everything you need to know about the novel
Final short story
Mastering English Literature
notes on “Things Fall Apart”
Novel Questions and stds’ input
post short story here
Questions on Ghassan Kanafani’s “Men in the Sun”
Sartre’s Preface to Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
The Novel: Questions Part one.
Short Story
A Case of Suspicion by Ed Wallace
Final Short story
Glossary of Literary Terms
post your essays and paragraphs and Qs
post your Short Story
Short Story: Important Questions
Very Short stories
1- Tomorrow will be different
2- My Neighbor
Prose
parody and the rise of the novel
Prose Course outline
things you should know about the Novel
The Novel from A to Z
Challenging the Canon
Four kinds of realism
Realism in “Robinson Crusoe”
how dynamic are literary texts?
Narrative I
Narrative II
‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Introduction
‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Discussion issues
Reception of …
Virginia Woolf / A room of one’s own
L. Sterne’s revolutionary Novel
‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Reception
A MODEST PROPOSAL Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
‘Tristram Shandy’
Sterne—Tristram Shandy
‘Robinson Crusoe’: Civilizing the Other
Sartre’s Preface to Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Jeremy W. Hubbell’s views on ‘Robinson Crusoe’
Let’s read Edward Said
the StOrIeS
Romantic Literature
John Keats’s “This Living Hand”
“Frankenstein” the text book
BBC documentary: The Romantics: Liberty
four kinds of realism
Research Paper
Romanticism Final Paper 2011
1. Romantic Beginnings
9- Four kinds of realism
2. Wordsworth and the Lyrical Ballads
3. Life and Death, Past and Present
4. Epic Ambitions and Autobiography
5. Spots of Time and Poetic Growth
6. Coleridge and the Art of Conversation
7. Hell to Heaven via Purgatory
8. Rivals and Friends
8. Lyrical Ballads – Collaborative Creation
“Blake and the city” By Jennifer Davis Michael
London by William Blake
nurse’s song
Jerusalem By William Blake
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ By Samuel Coleridge
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and British Romanticism
Rhythm, Meter, and Scansion Made Easy
English Exercises
IELTS resources
Parallel Structures
Countable or Uncountable?
NEW exercise
NEW REVIEW exercises 2
Review Exercises 3
REVIEW exercises 4
Review exercises 5
Test your English
New toefl Review
Practice Clauses II
Passive vs Active Voice Quizzes 3
Sentence type exercises and Quizzes
English placement Test
English Proficiency Test
Toefl exercises
Toefl Exercies II
Toefl III
Toelf exercies 4
Evaluating Paragraph Unity
Metaphysical Poets
Final Paper Draft
personal poems & Unseen extracts
Rhythm, Meter, and Scansion Made Easy
Reseach Paper & Sample
Research paper Drafts
post REPORTS here
Political and Social Criticism in “The Calme” by John Donne
The Bait John Donne
“Death be not proud”
Defending Donne: ‘The Flea’
The Influence of the Bible on William Blake
Report Material
Views of Death in Donne’s Poetry
The Literary Value of Donne’s Sermons
The Rhetoric in the Poetry of John Donne
The Dramatic Element in Donne’s Poetry
Donne’s Sermons
Donne: § 12. Paradoxes, Problems and other Prose Writings.
Famous Quotes by John Donne
Donne & Petrach + Donne’s influence
THE METAPHYSICAL POETS T. S. ELIOT
Oral Skills
Body Language
English Websites
Formal and informal English
Improving your English vocabulary
What to Say When Meeting Someone For the First Time
Creative Writing
Class TWO: Cumulative sentences
Descriptive pieces
GrandMother
In Gaza
In Jerusalem
My Story
Reduced Adjective/Relative Clauses
Sentence Variety: class 1
Synonyms that are not synonyms
The Story
Writing Short sentences
contact & other courses
Other courses
Pronunciation
Shakespeare <
The Many Selves and Soliloquies of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Role of Horatio in ‘Hamlet’
Shakespeare research paper/essay
best liners /quotes from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’
Verbatim theatre
Hamlet is….
‘Hamlet’ Act I Scene II
Othello and the Problem of Blackness
Let’s Discuss Othello/’Othello’
The Real Shakespeare?
Strategies for Understanding Shakespeare’s Language
Let’s read Edward Said
‘Othello’by A.C. BRADLEY Class One
‘Othello’ By A.C. BRADLEY class Two
Coleridge’s famous critique of ‘Othello’ and Iago
Translation
How the Gaza offensive came about
How will the next Palestinian uprising look? By Amira Hass
I envy the people who hate Israel
News headlines
Translate the following news story
Literary Criticism I
‘Othello’ Q&A
books: ‘othello’ and class material
Five Questions Theories Ask
Questions on Plato’s theory
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and British Romanticism
Media Writing
Answer the Following questions
Good samples for News stories.
News Headlines
News headlines exercises
News stories
Quotation Marks
Victorian Lit. <
‘Kim’ Questions for Discussion
‘Kim’, by Rudyard Kipling by Ian Mackean
Kim (Critical Overview):
Kipling’s ‘Kim’ study guide:
Misrepresenting the Other in ‘Kipling’s ‘Kim’
Bad City: Oliver Twist: Against all Odds
The Power of Dress and Class Identity in Oliver Twist
Coketown: ‘Hard Times’ by Dickens
‘Oliver Twist’ QUIZ. Who said what?
Oliver Twist, the character: QUESTIONS
Clothes and Identity in ‘Oliver Twist’
Characterisation- Beyond flatness and roundness
The selling scene from ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ by Hardy
‘Stop thief! Stop thief!’
The Portrayal of Jews in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
Realism
Narrative II
Narrative I
Class one
Translation II
Romanticism Final Paper 2011
Romanticism Final Paper 2011
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