Blog Post Assignment
Please sign up to do a post and help lead discussion for one class session. To receive credit, your blog post should be up 24 hours before the class session and you must be in class to discuss your post. You may post commentary and questions on anything that interests you about the day’s reading. Try to stick closely to the text. Look at its language, what it concerns, its images, and the characters represented in the text (as opposed to writing about the author, historical/social context, etc.). Please do NOT write your post on background readings, if any are assigned during your day. You may include images and/or links to relevant material.
Your post should incite a discussion about the reading, offer a topic from which we may begin as a class to tackle the text. Consider things like its overall theme, its structure, how it relates to previous works we have read. Consider writing a reaction to the piece, how it made you feel and what it made you think about. If you can, hone in on a specific passage and give us a close reading. The intention of this exercise is to spur conversation about the text, and our literary survey as a whole on these great works.
You will also post comments on three classmates’ posts. To count, comments must be posted before the class session that the post is about. At least one comment must be posted by Feb. 10 and one after Apr. 2.
What constitutes a good comment? Good comments do more than just say “I agree” or “Good post!” Please be sure to add to the conversation. Remain respectful of your peer’s post whether you agree or disagree. This is where we hope to begin a discussion that we will continue in class.
For an example of a post, please see the one I wrote on The Great Hymn to the Aten.
Feb 3 The Odyssey Books 1-4, Homer KIRAN KAUR
Feb 5 The Odyssey Books 5-8, Homer PETER CHIANG
Feb 10 The Odyssey Books 9-12, Homer RONG ZHANG
Feb 19 The Odyssey Books 13-16, Homer MADELENE MANINGAS
Feb 20 The Odyssey Books 17-20, Homer HYACINTHE SARR
Feb 24 The Odyssey Books 21-24, Homer JUSTIN JEFFERIES
Feb 26 Aesop’s Fables and The Jataka MICHAEL LAGAJINO
Mar 3 Cao Pi, Lu Ji, and Tao Qian’s Elegy LINDA FU
Mar 5 Tang Poetry
Mar 10 Oedipus the King, Sophocles PASCAL HANNOU
Mar 12 Oedipus the King, Sophocles ONEEK BHATTACHARJYA
Mar 17 The Aeneid Book 1, Virgil MEENA RAMAMOORTHY
Mar 19 Metamorphoses, Ovid RANDY ALAM and JESSICA ANICETO
Mar 24 Inferno Cantos 1-8, Dante ANDY WU and ANDREY IVANOV
Mar 26 Inferno Cantos 9-18, Dante QASIM LEZAMA
Mar 31 Inferno Cantos 19-26, Dante JOSKA MATEJEC
Apr 2 Inferno Cantos 27-34, Dante ODILJON NABIEV and SONGSUN GO
Apr 7 The Thousand and One Nights MERAV HAGLER
Apr 9 The Thousand and One Nights PAULINA BRZOSTOWSKA
Apr 28 The Kokinshu BALJIT SINGH
Apr 30 Petrarch’s sonnets; Shakespeare’s sonnets JULIE LIN
May 5 Hamlet, Shakespeare ALVIN MAK
May 7 Hamlet, Shakespeare FAWAZ KHAN
May 12 Hamlet, Shakespeare SINEAD RAMNARINE