ENC 1102 Makeup Assignments
Make up work must be completed for every absence. It may be sent
by email or brought to class. If you are pressed for time, always do the
current assignment first. Make up assignments do not erase absences.
Make up work may be hand written or printed.
work:
If you missed class on Wednesday, April 13, complete the following
1. Read the following poetry: Pat Mora p. 1186 – 1193
2. Summarize the story told by any one of the poems
If you missed class on Monday, April 11, complete the following work:
1. Read the following poetry: Emily Dickinson, p.1160 – 1167
2. Summarize the story told by any one of the poems
work:
If you missed class on Wednesday, April 6, complete the following
Work on developing a topic and thesis statement for your research
paper.
If you missed class on Monday, April 4, complete the following work:
1. Read Haiku on pages 1231 - 1235 and write a hailu that you email to me.
2. Read the poem “Eve Names the Animals” p. 1252 & the story, “She Unames
Them” p.1253, and write a response that discusses the shared theme of both
works.
3. See ANGEL for material on poetic devices
If you missed class on Wednesday, March 30, complete the following work:
1. Read the story, “The Rocking Horse Winner,” and write a short – one
page response.
2. Add the following material to your notes:
Genre: category of writing marked by a distinctive style, form, or content
that gives the reader an idea of what to expect.
Mystery, science fiction, romance, fantasy for example.
Speculative fiction: Science fiction or speculative fiction uses settings
and plots that are outside the boundaries of our every day reality. Authors
use these devices to make it easier to deal with some issues by taking an
issue or event from our reality and exaggerating it to the point of unreality,
for example, having people disappear because they aren’t loved and
appreciated.
3. Choose one of the following themes and write a paragraph describing how
it could be developed to an extreme as a speculative fiction story.
Cloning – humans or organs
Drive in churches
Body piercing
What if humans could fly?
What if everyone had esp?
If you missed class on Monday, March 28 complete the following work:
Read the story, “A Very Old man with enormous wings,” and write answers to
these questions:
1. Discuss the role of the supernatural in Marquez's story
2. Does ritual and superstition play a role in the story? Discuss.
3. What affect does the combination of magical and ordinary details have
on the reader?
4. Explore the differing uses of imagery in Marquez's story
5. Discuss how Marquez achieves a constant level of uncertainty in his story.
6. Compare and contrast the differing portrayal of the Spider-Girl and the
Angel. Is there a wider purpose behind this contrast? How can the two
be read as representing different approaches to literature?
If you missed class on Wednesday, March 23, complete the following work:
Read the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” and write a short (one page)
response that discusses three instances of irony in the story.
If you missed class on Monday, March 21, complete the following work:
Read the story, “Babylon Revisited,” and write answers to these questions:
1.
What is significant about the title?
2.
What are the conflicts in "Babylon Revisited"? What types of
conflict (physical, moral, intellectual, or emotional)?
3.
What are some themes in the story? How do they relate to the
plot and characters?
If you missed class on Monday, March 14 and/or Wednesday, March 16,
complete the following work:
5:30 class: Read or view the play, A Streetcar Named Desire and write a
short (one page) response.
7:00 class: Read or view the play, Hamlet and write a short (one page)
response.
If you missed class on Monday, February 28 or Wednesday March 2, there is
no make up available, but remember to check ANGEL for Essay#2.
Have a great Spring Break!
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 23, complete the following
work:
1. Read “Freakshow” and write a one-page response.
2. See ANGEL for Midterm test due 3/2/11.
If you missed class on Monday, February 21 there is no make up work, but
see ANGEL or my web page for Essay #2.
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 16, complete the following
work:
1.
Read the story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” and write answers
to the questions that follow.
2.
Read “Drama: Reading, Responding, writing” page 1382-1384.
If you missed class on Monday, February 14, complete the following work:
Read the story, “A Rose for Emily,” and write a short (one page)
response.
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 9, complete the following work:
1. read the story, Cathedral,” and write a short (one page) response.
2. Add the following material to your notes:
Sign: Something that stands for something else or points to something.
= stands for the word/concept “equals.”
EXIT
The arrow points to the direction of the exit

Symbol:
A person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates
itself and at the same time figuratively represents or “stands for”
something else.
Usually, the thing or idea represented is more abstract, general, non-or
supra-rational; the symbol, more concrete and particular.
3.
Make the following change to the reading assignments:
Week 6:
M 2/14 “A Rose for Emily,”p. 681
W 142/16 “ The Cask of Amontillafo” p.166.
Week 7:
M 2/21 & W 2/23 “Freakshow” p.269 FUNNY, STRANGE, PROVOCATIVE
If you missed class on Monday, February 7, complete the following
work:
1. Read the story, “the yellow Wallpaper,” and write answers to these
questions:
How about John? Why does the narrator say his profession is "perhaps . . . one
reason I do not get well faster? Who else supports John's diagnosis?
What clue does the narrator's repeated lament, "what can one do?" give us about her
personality? What conflicting emotions is she having toward her husband, her
condition, and the mansion?
What's the narrator's initial reaction and description of the wallpaper? How does her
description of the wallpaper change?
2. Place commas where needed:
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put
them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick
them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like
minnows into all sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn’t realized and before you
know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in
commas. Better to use them sparingly and with affection precisely when the need for one
arises nicely by itself.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 2, complete the following work:
1. Read the story “Flight patterns” and write answers to the questions
that follow.
2. Add the following material to your notes:
The narrator in a work of fiction is the character who tells the
story. The narrator may be reliable – we believe his/her version
of the story, or unreliable - we think the narrator is not telling
the reader the truth or the whole story.
Point of view is the focus from which the story is told; it may be
omniscient, meaning that you know all the thoughts and actions of
all the characters, or limited, where you only know the thoughts
and actions of some of the characters, or even only one.
The story may be told in the first person “I,” second
person,” you” or third person, ”he, she, it.”
If you missed class on Monday, January 31, complete the following work:
1. Read the story, “Hills Like white elephants” and write answers to the
questions that follow.
2. See ANGEL for material on Hemingway and Existentialism
3. Complete the Editing Practice on ANGEL
4. Add the following material to your notes:
Setting: the time and place of the action in a story. (Setting
includes cultural, historical and psychological influences.)
A knowledge of the time and place can help us understand a
story.
Where/when/what was going on?
If you missed class on Wednesday, January 26, complete the following work:
1.
Read the story, “Boys and Girls,” and write answers to the
questions that follow.
2.
Add the following material to your notes:
Character a personage who acts, appears or is referred to in a
work of fiction.
Protagonist: the main character in a work.
Flat character: a simple character with few described traits
who does not change or surprise the reader throughout the story.
Round character: a complex character who grows and changes,
and surprises the reader in ways that are realistic to the story.
3.
See ANGEL under “Lessons” for material about archetypes
that was covered in class.
If you missed class on Monday, January 24, complete the following work:
1.
Read the story, “Stepdaughters,” and write answers to the
questions that follow.
2.
See the glossary in the main text and read the definition for
the term “archetype.”
3.
See ANGEL under “Lessons” for material about archetypes
that was covered in class.
If you missed class on Wednesday, January 19, complete the following work:
1. Read “A Conversation with My Father” on page 65 and write answers
to the questions that follow on page 69.
2. Add the following material to your notes:
Theme:

The theme is a general statement no longer than one sentence.
Clichés make good theme statements.
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The theme of a fable is its moral.

The theme of a parable is its teaching.

The theme of a work of fiction is its view about life and how
people behave.
In fiction, the theme is not intended to teach or preach. In fact, it is
not presented directly at all. You extract it from the characters, action, and
setting that make up the story. In other words, you must figure out the
theme yourself.
The writer's task is to communicate on a common ground with the
reader. Although the particulars of your experience may be different from
the details of the story, the general underlying truths behind the story may
be just the connection that both you and the writer are seeking.
Common Themes in Literature
The American Dream
The Meaning of Freedom
Individuality vs. community
Death and How To Deal With It
Human Relationships
Challenge and Success
Loss of Innocence
Guilt
Choices and Possibilities
Friendship
Family
Love conquers all
The Returning Soldier
The Victorious Underdog
The Damsel in Distress
Struggle of the Poor/Rich
The Journey of Escape
Journey from Innocence to awareness
Sacrificial Friend/ Savior
The power of friendship
The Love Triangle
Meeting the Supernatural
The Search for Identity
Born Again/Recalled to Life
The Corruption of Power
Oppression of the Poor
Big Brother is Watching
If you missed class on Wednesday, January 12, complete the following work:
1. Read “20/20” on page 16, and write a short response.
2. Handwrite, as a diagnostic, a story about you. Take no longer than 50
minutes. Write about any area of your life, at any time. For example,
now, when you were a child, the birth of your first child…
Add the following material to your notes:
Fiction: a literary work that, although it may contain autobiographical
material, is largely shaped by the writer’s imagination.
Plot: The arrangement of the actions of a story, which may consist of any
kind of event or series of events. The events may include physical actions,
and events such as dialog, or a character’s thinking, dreaming or
remembering.
Conflict: A struggle between opposing forces, such as between two people,
between a person and something in nature or society, or even between two
drives, impulses or parts of the self.
If you missed class on Monday, January 10, complete the following work:
Welcome to 1102. In this first class, we discusses “literature” and gave this
definition:
Literature consists of any intellectual material produced by a culture.
Literature may be written, filmed or consist of internet content.