Application: Eye on Development, Part 1 Week 3: Observing Children 3 to 5 Years Old This week, you are continuing to work on Part 1 of the Application Assignment for this course. The video segment you will view features children who range in age from 3 to 5 years. Keep in mind that Part 2, your assignment for Week 5, will involve learning more about these […]

Consider this assignment as a short research paper in essay format with in-text citations. Read the following questions, and, in your response, be sure to use ALL of the topic notes, readings and videos to support your ideas. For this extra credit assignment, you will write at least 750 words.    Chicano Topic Notes Chicano Readings: AgitProp Theatre When Sleeping Giants Awaken America Los Vendidos Justice Chicano […]

Instructions Please choose one of the following questions to answer for this unit by Wednesday at 11:59 pm (CST).  You should also respond to two of your classmates’ postings by Sunday at 11:59 pm (CST). Before answering this unit’s questions, you should read the novel You by Caroline Kepnes.  Keep in mind, as you read the novel, a few of the questions posted below. Questions (TV Series/Novel) Choose one question to […]

 In existentialism, the ethical ideal is to live “authentically”–a notoriously slippery concept—celebrating individual freedom and responsibility.  According to Sartre, we are here by blind chance, and nothing more.  There is no objective reason for our existence, and this hard truth imposes a responsibility on each of us to live “authentically” by creating our own meaning and purpose.  For Sartre, too often, we allow others to […]

  How do Charles Chesnutt’s short story “The Wife of his Youth,”  Alice Dunbar Nelson’s short story “The Stones of the Village,” and James Weldon Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man dramatize the condition of “double-consciousness,” which W.E.B. Du Bois describes as the central predicament of African Americans at the turn of the century?  What strategies do the protagonists of each piece use […]

InstructionsThis essay should be a 650-900 word essay focusing on the assigned readings from the course. It is due by 11:55 pm ET on Sunday of Week 8. This should be a close reading essay, and should use as evidence primarily passages from the work or works that you discuss. You may not use ANY outside sources without the instructor’s approval. The essay should be in MLA essay […]

Why Write a Draft? All writers begin a project by brainstorming their ideas and constructing a rough draft. The draft is not a completed paper; rather, it allows writers to explore and develop their ideas. As part of the writing process, it is important for writers to rehearse their materials before those materials “go live.” Writing a literary analysis helps us to more readily connect […]

  (1) Your third writing assignment in WRTG 391 will be a synthesis of sources essay, often called a literature review. Please watch video on WA #3 — approaching the synthesis of sources essay.  Then complete the following task. Imagine that you are working for department within a large company.  The manager of your department is considering allowing workers in your department to telework, in other […]

Part One: Several of our works this week portray family relationships that are less than perfect. Choose one that stood out to you as particularly moving or engaging. Describe the relationship and explain its personal resonance with you.     Part Two: Research one of this week’s authors and tell us what about his or her biography struck you as being reflective of issues in the work. […]

Please don’t consult any outside sources or website.  Consider the notes you’ve read in this lesson about how to read and understand poetry.  1. Choose a poem we read in this lesson (listed here) and re-read it.  “Head, Heart” by Lydia Davis  “Poem” by Frank O’Hara “Those Winter Sundays”  “The Act” by William Carlos Williams  “At a Certain Age” by Deborah Cummins  “For a Father” by Elise Partridge  […]