Welcome students! I intend to use this page as a launchpad for the documents, assignments, and updates that a student will need to reach his or her magical level of potential in my courses.
FOR MY LESLEY MONDAY/WEDNESDAY CLITR CLASS:
Click on the links below to find the Final Exam Review sheet as well as the Poetry Project for Wednesday, April 28th:
Final Exam Review:
http://www.shanadeets.com/final-exam-review.pdf
Poetry Project:
http://www.shanadeets.com/poetry-project.pdf
For my Lesley CLITR1100.06 Students (taken over from Waukhonen):
Students will find the materials necessary for the Research Paper in the pdf files listed below. Begin with the first pdf, the Research Paper handout, which will give you a clear sense of the purpose of the articles that follow.
Research Paper Handout:
Refer to the revised syllabus at the bottom of this page for the due dates on each stage of the Research Paper. (In the handout, you will find explicit instructions only for what is due April 7th, and the handout is otherwise to be used as a tool for structuring and generating ideas for your paper.)
http://www.shanadeets.com/research-paper-handout.pdf
Article 1: "Narrative Proverbs in the African Novel" by Emmanuel Obiechina
http://www.shanadeets.com/narrative-proverbs-achebe.pdf
Article 2: "Okonkwo and his Mother: Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Postcolonial Discourse" by Biodun Jeyifo.
http://www.shanadeets.com/okonkwos_mother.pdf
Article 3: "Gender struggle over ideological power in Ibsen's A Doll's House" by Guo Yuehua.
http://www.shanadeets.com/ibsen-and-gender-and-ideolo.pdf
Article 4: "Ibsen and the name-of-the-father" by Ross Shideler.
http://www.shanadeets.com/ibsen_and_the_name_of_the_f.pdf
(Note that this article is not exclusively about Ibsen's A Doll's House, but includes extensive analysis of A Doll's House on this theme.)
Other Materials:
You will find a link to the checklist for writing a formal literary paper below. Note that it is designed for writing about Fiction but can be adapted to help you with a Drama paper as well...:
Lesley Checklist for Fiction Paper:
http://www.shanadeets.com/paper-checklist.pdf
Lesley CLITR1100.06 REVISED SYLLABUS AS OF APRIL 12TH:
http://www.shanadeets.com/clitr110006syllabus.pdf
Enjoy. I know I'm looking forward to the ingenious invention that happens when I force you to do work and stuff..;)
*Note that these scholarly articles are posted as an educational aid to students and are not being used for profit or promotion of any kind.*