Anglophone Literature Tasks

Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC

Departamento de Letras e Artes - DLA

Projeto de Extensão: Dinamizando o Ensino da Língua Inglesa na UESC

Coordenação geral: Prof. Isaias Carvalho

Anglophone Literature Tasks

These tasks and resources are for free use by both professors and students of Anglophone Literature.

This page is part of the production of the UESC extension project Dinamizando/Inglês. Welcome!

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Tasks

Assignments for UESC Anglophone Literature students

Task 1 Read the Course Description, the Course Plan, Assessment, and the Bibliography of Anglophone Literature - UESC 2009.2.

Task 2 Go to Questions on Literature. Be ready for group discussion.

Task 3 Go to A few teaching/learning principles. Be ready to discuss them with your peers and the professor. Reflect upon them. Pick out one of them which is your number 1.

Task 4 Go to Critical Approaches to Literature. Answer the questions.

Task 5 Go to Some Anglophone Authors and some of their works. Use that page to subsidise your choice of author/theme/work for your focused term research and presentations.

Task 6 Go to English with Isaias Carvalho. Take a tour of the useful links on the right column. Be ready to make comments and give opinions. Use the links and resources available to boost your English.

Task 7 Read the information about Journal Writing. Every other week you are expected to turn in your journal writing notebook with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words.

Task 8 Do research on William Shakespeare's life, times and works. Go to the Shakespeare page as a starting point. Be ready to answer questions in a quiz competition in groups.

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Disclaimer

Task 9 Go to Useful Classroom Expressions. Use those expressions to avoid speaking Portuguese during our classes.

Task 10 Go to Oral presentation guidelines. Use them as a reference to prepare for Credit 1 assignment. Grouping, dates, and authors or themes will be decided in class.

Task 11 Go to Effective Presentations. A series of on-line tutorials by Jeff Radel. Though it is not the perfect material to make you an expert in presentations, it is an effective starting point. Take a tour of the tutorials.

Use the tips given to improve your oral presentations.

Task 12 Go to Poems in English, by Isaias Carvalho. Is that Anglophone literature or what?

Task 13 Open the attached file (at the botton of this page) with Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Read Act I, Scene I. You may comment on it in your journal. Check vocabulary, make language specific notes, do research on the play, especially related to the scene(s) assigned for next class... in a nutshell, act and react to Hamlet and its images, characters, ideas...you may choose to read it in the Portuguese version, but please do refer to the original text in English for the sake of this task.

Task 14 Open the attached file (at the botton of this page) with Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Read Act I, Scene II & Scene III. [the same instructions for task 13 apply here].

Task 15 Open the attached file (at the botton of this page) with Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Read Act I, Scene IV & Scene V. [the same instructions for task 13 apply here].

Task 16 Open the attached file (at the botton of this page) with Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Read Act II, Scene I & Scene II. [the same instructions for task 13 apply here].

Task 17 Open the attached file (at the botton of this page) with Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Read Act III, Scene I to Scene IV. [the same instructions for task 13 apply here].

Task 18 Open the attached file (at the botton of this page) with Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Read Act IV, Scene I to Scene VII & Act V, Scene I & Scene II. [the same instructions for task 13 apply here].

Task 19 Click here. Read some excerpts from: AUERBACH, Erich. The weary prince. In: Mimesis: the representation of reality in Western Literature. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974. p. 312-333. Be ready to discuss it in class. Also, take notes and make comments in your journal. You may decide to read it in Portuguese, but please do refer to the original one in English for references and quotes.

Task 20 Click here. Read some excerpts from: BLOOM, Harold. The tempest. In: Shakespeare: the invention of the human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. p. 662-684. Be ready to discuss it in class. Also, take notes and make comments in your journal. You may decide to read it in Portuguese, but please do refer to the original one in English for references and quotes.

Task 21 Other Elizabethan authors. Individually, do research about the life, the most important work(s) and other information about one of the Elizabethan authors below.

Christopher Marlowe. Click here (and/or do research in other sources)

John Donne. Click here and here (and/or do research in other sources)

Sir Thomas More. Click here (and/or do research in other sources)

John Lyly. Click here (and/or do research in other sources)

Sir Walter Ralegh. Click here (and/or do research in other sources)

Robert Greene. Click here (and/or do research in other sources)

Edmund Spenser. Click here (and/or do research in other sources)

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Click here (and/or do research in other sources)

Thomas Kyd. Click here (and/or do research in other sources)

Task 22 Go to the page on John Milton. Read Life of John Milton. Choose the 3 most relevant pieces of information about his life. Be ready to discuss them with your peers and the professor. Reflect upon them.

Task 23 Go to the page on John Milton. Answer the questions on the Puritan Age.

Task 24 Go to the page on John Milton. Work on Milton's sonnet On Shakespeare.

Task 25 Go to the page on John Dryden. Read Life of John Dryden. Choose the 3 most relevant pieces of information about his life. Be ready to discuss them with your peers and the professor. Reflect upon them.

Task 26 Go to the page on John Dryden. Answer the questions on the Period of the Restoration.

Task 27 Go to Romanticism and "The Lady of Shallot". Do some research on Romanticism in the US, and Romanticism in general. Answer the exercise proposed. Then, Listen to the sung version of the poem and refer it to the characteristics of Romanticism. Also, do not forget to take notes to share with your peers.

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Task 28 Go to the Wuthering Heights page. Follow the instructions, watch the movie, and answer the questions.

Task 29 Go to the Edgar Allan Poe page. Open the 3 "The raven" files at the bottom of the page. Read the poem both in English and in Portuguese. Also, listen to its audio version. Be ready to discuss it in class.

Task 30 Go to the Edgar Allan Poe page. Read "The philosophy of composition", an essay about "The raven", both in English and in Portuguese (or either in English or in Portuguese). Also, do some research on Poe's life, times and works. There is a link to Wikipedia as a starting point. Be ready to discuss and share information about both the essay and Poe's biography.

Task 31 Go to the Edgar Allan Poe page. Click on Edgar Allan Poe's photo to go to an anthology of his works. Choose one of his short stories. Be ready to tell the story to the class and share information about it, referring back to all we've read about Poe and his works.

Task 32 Go to The Road Not Taken. Do some research on Robert Frost. Read the poem. Be ready to share your answers to the question proposed, besides other comments on the author's biography and works.

Task 33 Go to the Romantic Authors page. Do the task proposed.

Task 34 Go to Cânone... Pastiche... Read the text. Be ready to discuss it.

Task 35 Go to Dubliners - James Joyce. Everyone: read the short story "The boarding room". Let's split the reading of the other short stories in groups (or pairs). Be ready for discussion.

Task 36 Go to the Shakespeare page. Click on "Shakespeare and Old English" (Links). Explore the vocabulary. Be ready to discuss it.

Task 37 Go to the Shakespeare page. Click on "Shakespeare and Early Modern English" (Links). Explore the vocabulary. Be ready to discuss it.

Task 38 Go to the Shakespeare page. Click on "Shakespeare videos" (Links). This is an optional task. Share your experience in class, if you wish.

Task 39 Click on the following 3 links on Renaissance in England and elsewhere:

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http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

(2) http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/16century/welcome.htm

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http://east_west_dialogue.tripod.com/europe/id5.html

Task 40 Go to the Shakespeare page. Click on "Shakespeare's Sonnets" (Links). Pick out one of the sonnets either randomly or after thorough reading. Bring your considerations, insights and findings to share with your peers.

Task 41 Open the attached file (at the bottom of this page) with Jamaica Kincaid's "On seeing England for the first time". Prepare to discuss it.

Task 42 Go to Isaias Carvalho's Master's Thesis. Read its introduction. Take notes in order to make criticism and engage in a class discussion.

Task 43 Click here, and read about one of the black writers listed. Take notes and make comments in your journal. Be ready to share biographical and literary information about the author you choose.

Task 44 Go to the O Artigo Científico page. Use the guidelines provided to write your final paper. Share your impressions, doubts and findings.

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