Post any reactions to and questions about your reading of the excerpt of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde here. What do you like about the text? What do you dislike? What’s confusing or strange? How does the form influence the text? How about the language? What do you think of the characters? What are some themes […]
Brainstorm two to three potential topics for the second paper and why you’re considering them. What text do you want to write about? And what context would help you discuss it? Post your thoughts and ideas in the comments.
Watch the video (in the unit two section of Background Info) and look over the prompt and rubric for the History and Context Paper. What experience do you have with ACC library services? What kinds of research papers have you written before? Discuss your thoughts about and experience with research and research papers here.
Go to the course Blackboard and watch the video for the most recent powerpoint. What other facts do you know about Victorian Britain, or what’s something new that you learned from the most recent powerpoint? Discuss Victorian British history in the comments.
Tips for working on online courses: Give yourself dedicated time to work on each course Getting in the swing of managing all of your classes on your own time is really tough, and can get out of hand quickly. Make sure you have some dedicated time set apart that’s just for each course. This can […]
Aurora Leigh was a girl who was sent to her aunt’s after her father’s passing. Her aunt was a very strict woman. She wanted Aurora Leigh to have an education. She was strict on getting her the education as well but her reasoning for wanting Aurora Leigh to have an education doesn’t sit right with […]
In class this week, we discussed Percy Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound.” We mainly talked about the main idea and how we shouldn’t but anything above others, we’re all equal. It goes more in depth my comparing mortal humans to Greek gods. During this discussion in class, this theme really stuck out to me the most compared […]
Taking a deeper look into the poem titled “Ulysses,” shows that it is just a bit of text in which the character that this same poem is named after, also known as Odysseus! Yes, the same dude from that epic poem that was written by Homer, titled “Odyssey.” Isn’t it interesting that this is the […]
Aurora Leigh is a girl who grew up in Italy, but when her mother and father passed away she was forced to continue her life with her aunt. From here follows another cinderella story, in my opinion, she is forced to live by the aunt’s rules and was only allowed to know what she would […]
During class this week, we read stories by William Wordsworth and Lord Alfred Tennyson. Both stories were poems part of the Victorian Era. Lord Alfred Tennyson’s story was called The Lady Of Shalott and the stories we read by William Wordsworth were called The World Is Too Much For Us and She Dwelt Among Untrodden […]
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