parfor literature 1 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. Dr. Isaias Carvalho

Plano Nacional de Formação dos Professores da Educação Básica/UESC

PARFOR

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Anglophone Literature I - 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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Our classes in 2012.1 will be on the 2nd floor of Jorge Amado Complex - Room 3210

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Tasks for the first week of class: January 2012

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Task 1 Read the following pages: Course Description, Assessment, and Bibliography of Parfor Anglophone Literature 1 - UESC 2012.1

Task 2 Go to Questions on Literature. Be ready for group discussion. Try to use some of your answers in Task 5 below.

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 two first questions plus another one of your choice.

Task 5 Read the information about Journal Writing. You are expected to turn in your journal writing notebook at least 3 times with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words. The first entry is supposed to be an answer to the following question: What's your relationship with literature in general, and with Literature in English, specifically?

Task 6 Go to The beginnings (in: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature). Answer the questions which will be provided by your professor.

Task 7 Go to Poems in English, by Isaias Carvalho. Is that Anglophone literature or what?

Task 8 Read excerpts from A literatura inglesa, by Anthony Burgess [to be provided by the professor]

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Tasks for the second week of class: February 2012

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Task 5 Read the information about Journal Writing. You are expected to turn in your journal writing notebook at least 3 times with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words.

Task 9 Read about Geoffrey Chaucer's life and works. Click here. Take notes of important information. [whole class]

Task 10 Read The wife of Bath, by Geoffrey Chaucer. Click here. Do research on this literary work. [whole class]

Task 11 Click on the 4 links below on the Renaissance in England and elsewhere. Take notes and share them and your insights in class. [whole class]

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance

(2) http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

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

(4) http://east_west_dialogue.tripod.com/europe/id5.html

Task 12 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. [whole class]

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. [whole class]

Task 14 Open the attached file (at the botton of this page) with Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, in Portuguese. Read all the play. Do research on it. Take notes and be ready to discuss it. [whole class]

Task 15 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. [Lívia, Lidijones, Tony, Igor, Narjara, Gilberto, Ivna, Angelita, Solange, Sérgio, Juzânia, Vânia, Fábio, Adina]

Task 16 Go to the Shakespeare page. Click on "Shakespeare and Old English" (Links). Explore the vocabulary. Be ready to discuss it. [Reinaldo, Sinara, Sirleide, Layse, Mônica, Simone, Carmélia, Valeska, Fabrízia, Ramille]

Task 17 Go to the Shakespeare page. Click on "Shakespeare and Early Modern English" (Links). Explore the vocabulary. Be ready to discuss it. [Juliano, Tatiana, Flávia, Arley, José Caldas, Márcio, Helen, France, Catiúscia, Rosana, Ana Paula, Nayanna]

Orientation sessions on the oral presentation (Credit 1) and on the final paper will be given by the professor. To be planned.

Macbeth may be studied too. It will depend on the time.

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Tasks for the third week of class: March 2012

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Task 18 Other Elizabethan authors. Individually, do research about the life, the most important work(s) and other information about one of the Elizabethan authors, as planned below.

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

Adina Santos Dias

Angelita Oliveira Reis Bruno

Sinara Bomfim Ribeiro

Valeska Pellegrine dos Santos

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

Antonio Ferreira da Silva Junior

Carmélia de Oliveira

Sirleide Rosa Cardoso

Vania Carla de Santana Quinto

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

Fabio Peixoto

Fabrizia Oliveira dos Santos

Solange Reimberg Silva Dantas

Tatiana Piraja Souza

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

Flávia Sampaio de Oliveira

Francenalva Xaviersilva

Gilberto Pereira Fernandes

Helen Cristina Macedo Carvalho Silva

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

Igor Araujo Braz

Ivna Oliveira Pires

Jose Caldas da Silva Neto

Juliano de Oliveira Ferreira

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

Juzania Oliveira de Souza

Laysi de Souza Rebouças

Lidijones Maia E Miranda

Livia Luiza Pereira Batista

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

Marcio Jean Soares Mendes

Monica Batista Soares Gomes

Narjara Ferreira dos Santos Campos

Nayanna Santos Sousa

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

Reinaldo Pinto da Costa Filho

Rosana Miranda Santana

Sergio Machado de Araujo

Simone Batista Soares

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

Ramille Roque Pinheiro

Ana Paula Vieira Cardoso

Arley Soares da Silva

Catiuscia Santana da Silva

Task 5 Read the information about Journal Writing. You are expected to turn in your journal writing notebook at least 3 times with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words.

Oral Presentation (Credit 1) (Check the criteria here)

First meeting:

Group 1: Tony, Arley, Sinara, Rosana, Sirleide

Group 2: Ana Paula, Nayanna, Reinaldo

Group 3: Lidijones, Ivna, Lívia, Flávia

Group 4: Solange, Juzânia

Second meeting:

Group 5: Fábio, Gilberto

Group 6: Ramille, Fabrízia, Tatiana, Márcio, Juliano, Catiúcia

Group 7: Sérgio, Adina, Igor, Narjara, Vânia

Third meeting:

Group 8: Mônica, Laysi, Simone, Carmélia, Valeska