BLOG POST ROSTER

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