Meet in our classroom today.

English 3332 students:

To prepare for our test on Monday, we will meet in our classroom today, Friday, February 26, instead of having a blog assignment.

See you there,
Prof. K

The Souls of Black Folk in Poetry and Prose

Dunbar's portrait, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC

                                         


English 3332 students:

For our blog of Friday, February 19, please post a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about any connections in ideas that you observe in Chapter 1 of W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk and in the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that your group was assigned in class on Wednesday. (If you were not in class, please use "Sympathy.") In your comment please use at least two direct quotations from DuBois and two from Dunbar.

After you post your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

Reminder of Monday's reading: Stephen Crane. “The Open Boat,” 442-62.

Have a great weekend,
Prof. K

Regionalism to Realism

                       


English 3332 students:

For our Friday, February 12, blog, please post a comment, during the fifty minutes of our class time, of at least two well-developed paragraphs explaining how Kate Chopin's "Désirée’s Baby" (418-24) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (424-38) illustrate a transition from regionalism to social reform-oriented realism in short fiction written by American women in the late 19th century. Before you write your comment, please click on this link and read this concise and insightful article by Lucinda MacKethan about Southern "Local Color."  

For our Monday, February 15, class, here is the Stephen Crane poetry link. Please read it online if you like to stick with that format or print it out if you would prefer.

Have a great weekend,
Prof. K

Nature in "A White Heron" and "A New England Nun"

                         
                       
                                          A white heron's nest in the pine canopy

                       
            New England's standard of beauty: quaint, plain, white church accents nature

                         
                                    A classic New England cottage like Louisa's


English 3332 students:

For our Friday, February 5, blog, please post a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs comparing and contrasting the depiction of nature in Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" and Mary Wilkins Freeman's "A New England Nun." Please use as least two quotations from each story (in other words, at least four total) in your comment.

After you post your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

For Monday, February 8, please read Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine,” 354-64.

Have a great weekend,
Prof. K