Week 2 Live Session Slides

1. ENGLISH
LITERATURE
WEEK 2 LIVE! SESSION

2. Week 1 Review
◦ Quiz – one reset per student; let me know
before the end of Week 3
◦ Discussion – be sure to add quotations to
main post and peer response; work on APA
in-text and reference citations; meet
minimum word counts for peer response
(150)
◦ Writing Assignment – closely read prompt
and respond to all questions; add
quotations from the primary text; work on
APA in-text and reference citations
◦ Blog – don’t forget about this assignment;
timeliness is part of the grade

3. Week 2
Assignments
◦ Quiz – 10 questions; 30 minutes;
information within Lectures section
◦ Discussion – one main post (300 words);
one peer response (150 words);
quotations and citations required in
both
◦ Writing Assignment – 300 words;
quotations and citations required
◦ Blog – 250 words; creative elements
required

4. SETTING UP A QUOTE
When including a quotation, always begin with a signal phrase (also called a dialog tag).
◦ Some examples include:
◦ The speaker says,
◦ The narrator writes,
◦ Donne (1633/2019) says,
◦ Philips (1646/2019) writes,
◦ In “The Flea” Donne says,
◦ In “A Married State” Philips
(1646/2019) writes,
◦ It is clear that Philips is praising
unmarried life when she notes,

5. APA CITATIONS FOR QUOTATIONS
◦ In- text citations need to include: (author last name, original year of publication/textbook
year of publication, p. #)
◦ Sample in-text citation: (Philips, 1646/2019, p. 767)
◦ Reference citations need to include: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title
of chapter or of the piece (article/poem/short story). (A. Translator, Trans.). In A. Editor & B.
Editor (Eds.), Title of book (edition) (pages of chapter). Publisher. (Original year of
publication).
◦ Sample reference citation: Philips, K. (2019). A married state. In S. Greenblatt, G.M. Logan,
D.S. Lynch, K.E. Maus, J. Noggle, J. Ramazani . . . J. Simpson (Eds.), The Norton anthology of
English literature: The major authors (10th ed.) (p. 767). Norton. (Original work published
1646).

6. SAMPLE USES OF QUOTATION
◦ In “A Married State” Philips (1646/2019) writes, “A married state affords but little ease/The
best of husbands are so hard to please” (p. 767).
◦ Philips writes, “A married state affords but little ease/The best of husbands are so hard to
please” (1646/2019, p. 767).
◦ The narrator says, “A married state affords but little ease/The best of husbands are so hard
to please” (Philips, 1646/2019, p. 767).
◦ **Always include your reference citation at the end of your post/assignment/response**

7. Week 2
Discussion
What are the attitudes toward marriage
and commitment in "A Married State"
and "To His Coy Mistress?" Be sure to
quote, cite, and reference from the text(s)
using appropriate APA format. Your post
must be at least 300 words.

8. Week 2 Discussion
"A Married State" "To His Coy Mistress"
o Written by an unmarried man in
his early 30’s
o The speaker is trying to seduce a
woman, his “mistress”
o “Coy” means shy or modest, so
the woman is refusing his
advances
o This is an example of a “carpe
diem” poem – or “Seize the day”
o Makes his argument for sex
throughout the lines, pressing her
because “time’s winged chariot
[is] hurrying near”
o Written by a woman (14 years old) before
she was married
o Expresses distaste for marriage and
childbearing
o Though we cannot know the exact
meaning, “Leading apes in hell” was a
punishment for women who either were
celibate or who did not marry and
reproduce. It could mean making men into
apes for seeking sex outside of marriage;
that women would care for apes because
they did not care for children

9. Week 2 Writing
Assignment
This week's response is a creative writing assignment to John
Donne's "The Flea". In this poem, Donne draws his beloved's
attention to a flea that has sucked both their blood and
develops a series of arguments for their having sex
now. Write a response as either the woman or the flea
(choose just one). Use elements such as dialog, description,
imagery, and figurative language . You will be pretending to
be either the flea or the woman in your response.

10. Week 2 Writing Assignment
o “The Flea”
o The speaker tries to convince his lover to have sex, as it first bit him and then her, and
now “in this flea our two bloods mingled be”
o He argues that they are “more than married” now
o The woman kills the flea, and the speaker argues that killing the flea is just as
dishonorable as having sex with him

11. Week 2 Blog
This week, we learned about satire by reading about Jonathan
Swift and his famous satire "A Modest Proposal." Today, satire
is still a popular form of social critique, as evidenced in late-
night talk shows and political cartoons. For this blog entry,
locate a satirical political cartoon using this website:
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and include a
link to the cartoon that you selected. Then, compare the
cartoon to the criteria set forth by John Dryden in "A Discourse
Concerning the Origin and the Progress of Satire." How does
Dryden define satire, and how does your cartoon compare to
that definition?

12. Week 2 Blog
o “A Modest Proposal”
o A work of satire
o Argues that the poor, hungry children of Dublin and Ireland need to become “sound,
useful members of the commonwealth”
o 120,000 children born to poor parents per year – they cannot be employed in
agriculture or construction; they cannot be sold until they are 12
o He then says that “a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious,
nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled”
o He goes on from there to detail how this industry will work

13. Week 3
The Romantics:
Timeline (pp. 28-30)
William Blake:
Biography (Vol. 2, pp. 44-47)
"The Lamb" (Vol. 2, pp. 50-51)
"The Tyger" (Vol. 2, p. 58) - Make sure to review
the image on p. 59
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Biography (Vol. 2, pp. 385-388)
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (Vol. 2, pp. 393-
395)
John Keats:
Biography (Vol. 2, pp. 475-478)
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" (Vol. 2, pp. 503-505)
The Victorians:
Timeline (pp. 1966-1967)
Oscar Wilde:
Biography (pp. 2282-2285)
The Importance of Being Earnest (pp. 2294-
2337) (or you may watch the film, which is
available to rent on several streaming sites)
Youtube, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Prime