English Literature 12

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Medieval Essay Outline Assignment…

November 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off

Literature 12
Medieval Essay Assignment
Mr. Nelson
In order to help us keep the Medieval texts we have encountered in our brains, as well as get going on essay writing, we will begin with outlining a comparative essay. This assignment will go through the steps of preparing for writing an essay, BUT does not end with the [...]

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Tags: Anglo Saxon/Medieval · Uncategorized · assignments · course updates

Some Notes on Wyatt and His Times…

November 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off

Note: These are taken from the following website, which is a group of article abstracts or summaries completed by University course participants.
English 362: Reading Summaries / Abstracts Malaspina University-College. Accessed Nov 15,05.
I have pasted some quotes (complete with spelling errors…)that I think are appropriate in approaching Wyatt and his times. Feel free [...]

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Tags: Renaissance and 17c · Uncategorized · reading

Testing photo pasting, and Reading Updates…

November 15th, 2005 · Comments Off

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Originally uploaded by james matthew.
Just test driving the capabilities of this blog as far as photo pasting goes.
Hopefully this week we will finish off Gawain and move into the Renaissance and 17th Century.
Look out, here comes the sonnett
I am also hoping to port our as of yet not established group blog over to learnerblogs.org, as [...]

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Barbara Allan

November 8th, 2005 · 7 Comments

After reading ‘Barbara Allan’ –>pg. 199
Read and respond to (comment on the blog) one of the questions at the end of the section.
Please remember to check your spelling.

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Tags: Anglo Saxon/Medieval · Uncategorized

Reflections on Friday’s class…

November 7th, 2005 · Comments Off

I just wanted to post some of my reflections on Friday’s class ‘teaching round circle session’.
First of all, I am enjoying the relaxing atmosphere of the class, especially the Friday tea. I think this is great, although I think from now on we will try and conduct our Friday sessions in the student lounge…
I wanted [...]

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The new look (english lit. version 2.1)

November 2nd, 2005 · 2 Comments

Hi everyone,
I hope you all like the new look of the blog and that it inspires you…I hope to change the look every once in a while to keep things fresh. I am still wondering about ways to integrate blogging into our literature environment. This is a major drain on my brain these days, as [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized · course updates

What is a blog?

October 24th, 2005 · 1 Comment

In response to Iain’s question, let me offer the following thoughts: Please note, this composition follows MLA format for in-text citations.
Once you have read this post, please check out the links to blog examples on the right hand side of this blog. Let your mouse rest over the link to read a short description of [...]

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