An Outline of Anglophone Literature
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC
Departamento de Letras e Artes - DLA
Página mantida pelo projeto de extensão "Dinamizando o ensino da língua inglesa" #
Coordenação: Prof. Isaias Francisco de Carvalho # Profa. Elaine Cristina Medeiros Frossard #
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An Outline of Anglophone Literatures / Panorama das Literaturas Anglófonas
Tasks
These tasks and resources are for free use by both professors and students of Anglophone Literatures.
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 Who's Isaias Carvalho? Read the Course Description, the Course Plan (on the right column), Assessment, and the Bibliography of Anglophone Literature - UESC.
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 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.
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Course Plan 2017.2
Dates with assignments and notes
September 15th Tasks 1, 2 [Disclaimer/Group dynamics], 5 [Just for planning short presentations] [Planning for the whole semester]
Click on the photo to reach my full Currículo Lattes
Task 5 Go to Critical Approaches to Literature. Answer the questions.
Task 6 Go to Poems in English, by Isaias Carvalho. Is that Anglophone literature or what? [Task canceled for 2017.2]
Task 7 Read the information about Journal Writing. Once a month you are expected to turn in your journal writing notebook with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words. [3 entries throughout the course] [Task canceled for 2017.2]
Task 8 Go to The beginnings (in: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature). Answer the questions which will be provided by your professor. Open the file (Literaturas Anglófonas_Beginnings English Literature History) attached at the bottom of this page.
Task 9 Read about Geoffrey Chaucer's life and works. Take notes of important information. [whole class]
September 19th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Jhonatan], 3 and 4 [Oral presentations schedule - planning]
September 22nd Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Luan Lins] and 5
September 26th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Camila] and 5 [continued]
September 29th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Bruno], 5 [Cultural studies], 8
October 3rd Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Bárbara Lake], 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 [Just planning; see October 6th and 17th]
October 6th No class
Task 15 [Do the task to be shared on October 17th; attendance will only be credited upon task accomplishment before October 17th]
October 10th No class
Tasks 16, 17 and 18 [Do the tasks to be shared on October 24th; attendance will only be credited upon task accomplishment before October 24th]
October 13th No class
Tasks 19 and 20 [Do the tasks to be shared on October 27th; attendance will only be credited upon task accomplishment before October 27th]
October17th
Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Xxxxxx] and 15 [short presentations]
October 20th No class
Task 22 [watch the movie and do the task to be shared on October 31st; attendance will only be credited upon task accomplishment before October 31st]
Professor will be paricipating in
Seminário de Linha de Pesquisa: Literatura, produção cultural e modos de vida.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Crítica Cultural (UEFS)
October 24th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Xxxxxx], 16, 17 and 18 [checking]
23º Seminário de Iniciação Científica da UESC
Task 10 Click on the following three links on Renaissance in England and elsewhere:
(1) Renaissance English Literature
(2) The Sixteenth Century
(2) Renaissance: European history
Task 11 Do research on William Shakespeare's life, times and works. Go to our Shakespeare page as a starting point. Be ready to answer questions in a quiz competition in groups.
Task 12 Go to the Shakespeare page. Click on "Shakespeare and Old English" (Links). Explore the vocabulary. Be ready to discuss it.
Task 13 Go to the Shakespeare page. Click on "Shakespeare and Early Modern English" (Links). Explore the vocabulary. Be ready to discuss it.
Task 14 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 15 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) [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
John Donne. Click here and here (and/or do research in other sources) [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
Sir Thomas More. Click here (and/or do research in other sources) [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
John Lyly. Click here (and/or do research in other sources) [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
Sir Walter Raleigh. Click here (and/or do research in other sources) [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
Robert Greene. Click here (and/or do research in other sources) [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
Edmund Spenser. Click here (and/or do research in other sources) [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Click here [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
Thomas Kyd. Click here (and/or do research in other sources) [Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx]
Task 16 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 17 Go to the page on John Milton. Answer the questions on the Puritan Age.
Task 18 Go to the page on John Milton. Work on Milton's sonnet On Shakespeare.
Task 19 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 20 Go to the page on John Dryden. Answer the questions on the Period of the Restoration.
Task 21 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 song version of the poem and refer it to the characteristics of Romanticism. Also, do not forget to take notes to share with your peers.
Task 22 Go to the Wuthering Heights page. Follow the instructions, watch the movie, and answer the questions.
Task 23 Go to the Edgar Allan Poe page. 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 Poe's biography.
Task 24 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 25 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.
4º Simpósio de Ensino, Extensão, Inovação, Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação
Com o tema "A Ciência como resposta para os desafios do Brasil", o evento acontece na UESC de 23 a 26 de outubro de 2017.
October 27th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Xxxxxx], 19 and 20 + [Oral presentations: Xxxx]
October 31st Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Xxxxxx] and
November 3rd Tasks online
November 6th - Extra class Orientation sessions + task checking [8am-11am]
November 7th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Xxxxxx] and 23 and 26 + [Oral presentations: Amanda, Carla, Jhonatan]
Task 26 Go to the Romantic Authors page. Do the task proposed.
Task 27 Go to Dubliners - James Joyce. Read the short story "The boarding house". Be ready for discussion. Highlight excerpts and make comments/reflections on the language (style), the plot, the structure, the criticial reviews, etc.
Task 28 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 29 Go to the O Artigo Científico page. Use the guidelines provided to write your final paper. Share your impressions, doubts and findings.
Task 30 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 31 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 32 Derek Walcott and the Caribbean (Professor's research work)
Task 33 Chinua Achebe and the African writer (Professor's research work)
Task 34 Post-colonial Anglophone literature: the others (Professor's research work)
Task 35 Poem of the day . At the beginning of each class, a student will be assigned to give a 5-minute presentation of an Anglophone poem: read it, highlight aspects of it, present a [real] short bio of the poet etc.
November 10th COIL - Recife
November 14th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Xxxxxx] and 25 + [Oral presentations: Bruno, Bárbara Martins, Camila]
November 16th - Extra class - Task checking 22 [checking] and many others
November 17th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Xxxxxx] and 27 + [Oral presentations: Iolanda and Bruna]
Announcement:
I Colóquio Internacional Interdisciplinar sobre Migrações e Refúgio - Ciimigrar
November 20th - Extra class Orientation sessions + task checking [10am-11:40am]
November 21st Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Iolanda, Mariana] and 29 + [Oral presentations: Luan Lins, Elisabete]
Alerta! O prazo final para envio, via e-mail, do Research Plan - (crédito 2) é 19.12.17
(ver modelo aqui)
Attention! Deadline to send the Research Plan - (credit 2) to the professor, via e-mail (isaiasfcarvalho@gmail.com): 12.19.17 (see template here)
November 24th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Franciely] and 28 + [Oral presentations: Luiz, Rebeca; Mariana, Luan Bencos]
November 28th No class
Task 30 [Do the task to be shared on December 5th; attendance will only be credited upon task accomplishment before December 5th]
December 1st Orientation sessions + task checking
Task 31 [Do the task to be shared on December 8th; attendance will only be credited upon task accomplishment before December 8th]
December 5th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Bárbara Lake; Carla] and 30 [checking] + [Oral presentations: Bárbara Lake]
Acordo Ortográfico
December 8th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Bárbara Martins] and 31 [checking] + [Oral presentations: Francy, Regiane]
December 12th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Letícia] and 32 + [Oral presentations: Letícia; Ananda]
Advertising:
December 15th - Extra class Orientation sessions + task checking [9am-10:30am]
December 15th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [] and 33 + [Oral presentations: Vivian; Bárbara Lake]
Alerta! O prazo final para envio, via e-mail, do Research Plan - (crédito 2) é 19.12.17
(ver modelo aqui)
Attention! Deadline to send the Research Plan - (credit 2) to the professor, via e-mail (isaiasfcarvalho@gmail.com): 12.19.17 (see template here)
December 19th Tasks 35 Poem of the day [Xxxxxx] and 34 + [Oral presentations: Xxxxx; Xxxxx]
IX SEPEXLE – Seminário de Pesquisa e Extensão em Letras
18 e 19 de dezembro de 2017
December 22nd [Deadline for catching up and closing activities - equivalent to Prova final]
Thank you!
Michaellis - Guia Prático da Nova Ortografia
Disclaimer
Assessment
Bibliography
A few principles
Professor Isaias
Anglophone Authors
Geoffrey Chaucer
Shakespeare
John Milton
John Dryden
Edgar Allan Poe
Jamaica Kincaid
Angela Carter
Caliban
Peter Shaffer, Equus
Eliot talks of Eliot
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português-inglês-português:
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English Domain
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