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.
If you missed class on Monday, April9, complete the following work:
See ANGEL under Lessons Drama Materials
If you missed class on Wednesday, March 7, complete the following work:
1.Read “Responding to Poetry,” p.826 - 832
2. Write a summary of the poem "The Fury of Overshoes" on page 829. Discuss what
story the narrator is telling.
If you missed class on Monday, March 5, complete the following work:
1. Read Haiku p. 1231 - 1235 and write one haiku poem.
2. Read “Eve Names the Animals,” p. 1252 and “She Unnames Them,”p.1253, and write
a response that compares the works in terms of theme.
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 29, no makeup is available.
If you missed class on Monday, February 27,complete the following work:
Read "The Yellow Wallpapaer," p. 608 and write a response that
answers these questions:
1. From what mental disease is the protagonist suffering?
2. Does the treatment she receives make her condition better or
worse. Explain with examples from the text.
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 22,complete the following work:
story.
Read "Babylon Revisited," p.651 and write a short response to the
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 15 complete the following work:
Read the story, “The Rocking Horse Winner,” p.750, and write
answers to the questions that follow.
If you missed class on Monday, February 13 complete the following work:
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” p. 371 and write a short (one or two
paragraph) response.
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 8 complete the following work:
Read the story, “The Thing in the Forest,” p. 324, and write a short (one or
two paragraph) response.
If you missed class on Monday, February 6 complete the following work:
Essay #2 is now on ANGEL.
1. Read “The Thing in the Forest,” p. 324, and write answers to all the questions that
follow.
Add the following material to your notes:
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.
Often the thing or idea represented is more abstract, general, non-or
supra-rational; the symbol, more concrete and particular.
The whole text: Plot, setting, theme, symbolism a d point of view are all
parts of a work of fiction, but the story is much more than the sum of its
parts. Read to gain insight from the whole text, the way everything works
together.
If you missed class on Monday, February 6 complete the following work:
1. Read the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and write answers to
the questions that follow.
2. Add the following material to your notes:
Irony: an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been,
expected.
Cosmic irony: A type of irony that arises out of the difference between
what a character aspires to and what so-called universal forces deal him or
her; such irony implies that a god or fate controls and toys with human
actions, feelings lives and outcomes.
Situational irony: the incongruity between what the reader and/or
character expects to happen and what actually does happen.
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?
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.
Satire: The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing,
denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. Although satire is usually witty, and
often very funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor but criticism
of an event, an individual or a group in a clever manner.
If you missed class on Wednesday, February 1 complete the following work:
Read the story, "Boys and Girls," p. 140 and write an answer for one
of the questions that follow.
If you missed class on Monday, January 30, complete the following work:
(Remember, essay #1 is due Wednesday)
1.
Read the story, “Stepdaughters,” and write answers to the
questions that follow.
2.
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?
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.
Satire: The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing,
denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. Although satire is usually witty,
and often very funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor but
criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a clever manner.
If you missed class on Wednesday, January 25, complete the following work:
1.
Read the story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” and write
answers to the questions that follow.
2.
Add the following material to your notes:
Point-of-view - The author's point-of-view concentrates on the vantage
point of the speaker, or "teller", of the story or poem.
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1st person: the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it
from his/her perspective (uses "I")
3rd person limited: the speaker is not part of the story, but tells
about the other characters but limits information about what one
character sees and feels.
3rd person omniscient: the speaker is not part of the story, but is
able to "know" and describe what all characters are thinking.
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.
If you missed class on Monday, January 23, complete the following work:
1. Read "A Cask of Amontillado" p. 161, and write a paragraph that
summarizes the plot of the story.
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.
Point-of-view - The author's point-of-view concentrates on the vantage point
of the speaker, or "teller", of the story or poem.
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1st person: the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it
from his/her perspective (uses "I")
3rd person limited: the speaker is not part of the story, but tells
about the other characters but limits information about what one
character sees and feels.
3rd person omniscient: the speaker is not part of the story, but is
able to "know" and describe what all characters are thinking.
If you missed class on Wednesday, January 18, 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. Read "Happy Endings" on page 123 and write answers to the questions
that follow on page 126.
3. Add the following material to your notes:
Theme:
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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.
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The theme of a parable is its teaching.
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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 11, 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 9, 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.