Spring 2018:
English 150: Introduction to Literary Studies
Professor Westergan
Writing Assignments:
-Essay #1: Rāmāyaṇa
-Essay #2: Dante’s Inferno
-Essay #3: The Tempest
-Essay #4: “The Song of Everlasting Regret”
-Essay #5: The Tale of Genji
Fall 2018:
English 235: Survey of U.S. Literature 1
Dr. Clawson
Writing Assignments:
-Reading Response #1: Anthology Introduction
-Reading Response #2: Colonization Stories
-Reading Response #3: “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
-Reading Response #4: Benjamin Franklin
-Reading Response #5: Phillis Wheatley
-Reading Response #6: The Coquette
-Reading Response #7: Sigourney and Cooper
-Reading Response #8: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
-Reading Response #9: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs
-Reading Response #10: Amistad and Benito Cereno
-Essay #1: Las Casas and Columbus
-Essay #2: The Coquette and “The Memorial of the Cherokee Council”
-Anthology Final Project: Native American Literature
Spring 2019:
English 226: Survey of English Literature 2
Dr. Toth
Writing Assignments:
-Response Paper #1: Shelley’s “A Defence of Poetry”
-Response Paper #2: “The Steam Loom Weaver” and “Song of the Shirt”
-Response Paper #3: Dramatic Irony in The Importance of Being Earnest
-Response Paper #4: Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”
-Response Paper #5: Sassoon and McCrae
-Essay #1: Victorian Era Poverty in Poetry
-Essay #2: Dramatic Irony in The Importance of Being Earnest
English 334: Milton
Professor Westergan
Writing Assignments:
-Essay #1: Milton’s “On Shakespeare” and Ben Jonson’s “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare”
-Essay #2: Comparison of Similes in Virgil, Homer, Dante, Tasso, and Milton
-Essay #3: Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost
-Essay #4: Temptation in Comus and Paradise Lost
Fall 2019:
English 305: Literary Theory and Writing
Dr. Pennington
Writing Assignments:
-Essay #1: New Criticism
-Essay #2: Summary and Evaluation
-Essay #3: Psychoanalysis
-Essay #4: Feminism and Gender Studies
-Essay #5: New Historical
-Essay #6: Reader Response
English 307: Fiction Workshop
Dr. MacDiarmid
Writing Assignments:
-Writing Exercise #1: If you could apologize to one person from your past, who would it be and why? Write the imagined meeting between you and that person.
-Writing Exercise #2: Describe in detail a character performing an activity that you know about but that most people don’t.
-Writing Exercise #3: Begin with a claim about the world that is germane to your story, then continue the paragraph.
-Writing Exercise #4: Character Inventory
-Writing Exercise #5: Write a scene between two characters in which the first character tries, but fails, to get something from the second character.
-Writing Exercise #6: Practicing Scene vs. Summary
-Writing Exercise #7: Write a scene in which a character interrupts an argument between two other people to make a dramatic announcement that spins the scene in a new direction.
-Writing Exercise #8: Write the end of your story by referring back to the story’s beginning, as in “Midnight, Licorice, Shadow.”
-Writing Exercise #9: Weird News Beginning
-Writing Exercise #10: Short Story Scene
-10 Reading Responses
-Final Short Story
Spring 2020:
English 425: Advanced Seminar in Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature
Dr. MacDiarmid
Writing Assignments:
-Invention Exercise #1: Apocalypse Now
-Invention Exercise #2: Epiphany Moments
-Invention Exercise #3: Word Salad
-Invention Exercise #4: My Advice to You
-Invention Exercise #5: Go-to Objects/Symbols
-Invention Exercise #6: Letter to an Author
-Invention Exercise #7: Disaster Encounter
-Invention Exercise #8: 10th Birthday
-Invention Exercise #9: 2nd Person Emotional Interaction
-Invention Exercise #10: Walmart Scene
-3 Book Reviews
-Final Short Story
Fall 2020:
English 236: Survey of U.S. Literature 2
Dr. Egan-Ryan
Writing Assignments:
-10 Online Discussion Posts
-Essay #1: Kate Chopin’s “Désirée’s Baby”
-Essay #2: Glaspell’s “Trifles”
English 489: Advanced Seminar in English Literary Studies (Charles Dickens)
Dr. Pennington
Writing Assignments:
-Insight Writing #1: Portrayal of Nancy in Oliver Twist
-Insight Writing #2: Oliver Twist Review
-Insight Writing #3: Marriage in David Copperfield
-Insight Writing #4: Disability Research
-Insight Writing #5: David Copperfield Ending
-Insight Writing #6: Dickens Sighting
-Insight Writing #7: Initial Seminar Paper Ideas
-Insight Writing #8: Seminar Paper Sources
-Insight Writing #9: Seminar Paper Opening Paragraphs and Thesis
-Boz Assignment
-Essay #1: Oliver Twist
-Essay #2: David Copperfield
-Final Seminar Paper
