Assignments – Week #7

Posted on March 12, 2021 by JSylvor
  1. Office Hours – Monday, March 15th.  I will be holding an open office hour from 3-4pm to discuss your essay assignment.  Please come if you are struggling with getting started, you have questions about the assignment, or you want to run your ideas by me or by your peers.
  2. This Week’s Reading – William Wordsworth. We are continuing our readings in Romanticism with William Wordsworth.  Please read “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802,” and “The World is Too Much with Us.”  You can find these poems in Vol. E of the Norton Anthology.  Be sure to have the texts available during our call on Wednesday.
  3. Hypothes.is.  In preparation for Wednesday’s class, we will be annotating “Tintern Abbey” using the annotation tool Hypothes.is.  Hypothes.is is an application that will allow us to annotate a text virtually in the same way we might if we were making notes in the margins of a physical text, but with the added bonus of being able to see and respond to one another’s notations.  Please use this Guide to Getting Started with Hypothes.is  to walk you through the process of setting up a free Hypothes.is account, adding the Hypothes.is extension to your web browser (ideally Chrome),  and joining our ENG2850 Hypothes.is group using this link. 
  4. Once you have set this up, go to this digital version of “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”, click on the Hypothes.is icon in your toolbar, select ENG2850 and begin making annotations on the text.  This could mean sharing definitions of the words you look up, asking questions about the text, or identifying parts of the poem that seem particularly interesting to you and adding your own thoughts.  Please make three annotations to the text in advance of our Zoom session on Wednesday.  Be sure that you have selected “ENG2850” from the pull-down menu, rather than “public”.  This will keep our annotations visible only to members of our class.
  5. Wordsworth Discussion Questions. Please respond to any two of the discussion questions I’ve posted about Wordsworth’s poems (see separate post for the questions.). As usual, you can either answer the questions directly or respond to your classmates’ comments.  Please share your responses by Friday,  March 19th.
  6. Reminder – Email me at [email protected] with the question you plan to explore in your essay.  I should hear from you by Sunday, March 14th.
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