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LITR 4326
Early American Literature Model Assignments  2016 final exam—Index to Sample Answers (final exam assignment) |
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Essay 1
on overall learning experience
(alphabetical order)
Michael Bradshaw,
Connection Through Literature
Austin Green
Melissa Holesovsky,
Creation and Origin: The Connection Continues
Eric Howell, Early American Buffet
Michelle Liaw
Kimberly Loza, My Learning Experience
Nona Olivarez,
Learning about ‘The Outsiders’
Brittney Wilson, History
Repeating: Learning from the Past
Essay 2: (options)
2a. Early American Literature as the "origin story of American literature": How does "Literature" evolve from the Renaissance, 17c / Baroque, and Enlightenment to the early Romantic era? How such definitions may apply to or compete for what we study or teach as literature?
2b. Review & compare 3-4 periods of study (Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Enlightenment, Romanticism)
Nona Olivarez,
An
Examination of Periods through Literature
Combination 2b. 3-4 periods of study & 2d. Most challenging or inspiring idea
Melissa Holesovsky,
Entertainment and Instruction: The Rationale of Literature
2c. "Which America to teach?" What built-in advantages, disadvantages to both dominant-culture and multicultural emphases?
Tom
Britt, The
Ugly Truth or the Optimistic Ideal
2d.
Most challenging or inspiring idea or content in the course + resolution.
(alphabetical order)
Michael Bradshaw,
Charlotte Temple:
Breaking Boundaries by Reinforcing Them
Austin Green,
“Is it True? Does it Matter?”
Combination 2d. Most challenging or inspiring idea & 2b. 3-4 periods of study
Melissa Holesovsky,
Entertainment and Instruction: The Rationale of Literature
2e. Teaching multiple texts through intertextuality and historicism in addition to or instead of intensive single-text study.(alphabetical order)
Burgundy Anderson,
The
Failings of Teaching in Blocks
Eric Howell, Intertextuality and Historicism as Seen
Through Early American Literature
Michelle Liaw,
Intertextuality: It’s all Relative
Optional short essay #3 describing and evaluating Charlotte Temple and / or Edgar Huntly.
Michael Bradshaw,
Edgar Huntly,
the Foundation for the Weird
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