JCCC - English 241: Oral Projects (50 points) - James McWard - Fall Semester 1997

Each student must participate in one group project that requires the group to give a short oral presentation on some of the authors and works we are studying this semester. The group (approximately 4-5 students) will then lead a class discussion of the works of those authors. To be more specific, I would like each group to do the following:

  1. Prepare a short background report of the major poets, poems and movement assigned for the day.
  2. Choose some students to read from their journals.
  3. Begin leading the discussion by raising some observations regarding the work or works for the evening.
  4. Finally, I would be happy to copy any materials (within reason) you believe class members might enjoy - just get these to me one class period before your presentation. Likewise, if you want anything placed on the web page, let me know.
 
Week 7: October 2 
Week 11: October 30
Week 13: November 13 
Week 14: November 20 
Donne: 
  • The Good Morrow 
  • The Canonization 
  • The Flea 
  • Holy Sonnet 10 
  • Holy Sonnet 14 
 Blake, From Songs of Innocence and of Experience  
  • "The Lamb" (1289) 
  • "The Chimney Sweeper" (1290-91) 
  • "The Chimney Sweeper" (1295) 
  • "The Sick Rose" (1296) 
  • "The Tyger" (1296-97) 
  • "London" (1298) 
 Tennyson, From In Memoriam A.H.H. (1907-54)  Hardy 
  • Neutral Tones 
  • The Ruined Maid 
  • Channel Firing 
Herbert 
  • Easter Wings 
  • The Collar 
  • The Pulley 
 Wordsworth 
  • Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 
  • A slumber did my spirit seal 
 Browning, "My Last Duchess" (1985-86)  

Hopkins, "God's Grandeur" (2127-28)

 Yeats 
  • The Second Coming 
  • Sailing to Byzantium 
Movement to study: Metaphysical Poetry Movement to study: 
Romantic Poetry		 Period to study:  
Victorian Age		 Movement to study: 
Modernism
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Though this is a group presentation, I want to assure you that you will be graded individually. Also, you need not worry about meeting with each other outside of class, unless you choose to do so. All you need to do as a group in preparation is to decide which works, authors, movements which students will research. Then you individually will conduct your research. When it comes time to deliver your presentation, your group will decide how to go about conducting the presentation, but you must incorporate the first three requirements above.

In addition to looking for material under each poet, you might want to check the following research material:

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York: Rinehart, 1957. PN44.5 .A2
Beckson, Karl E. A Reader's Guide to Literary Terms. New York: Farrar, 1960. 803 B389r
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia. New York: Harper and Row, 1987. PN41 .B4 1987.
Cuddon, J.A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1977. 803 Cud
Daiches, David. The Penguin Companion to English Literature. New York: McGraw, 1971 PN849 .C5 P4
Holman, C. Hugh. A Handbook to Literature. New York: Macmillan, 1986. PN41 .H6 1986

I will place links for each poet on my web page (www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~jmcward/241.htm) as the time for the oral presentation nears, but you also might check these helpful Internet sites:

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ --Literary Resources on the Net
http://humanities.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html -- English Literature Reference Page
http://www.alchemyweb.com/~alchemy/englit/sevenlit/donne/ --  John Donne Page
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Romantic/index.html -- Romantic Links 
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/stc/Coleridge/stc.html -- S.T. Coleridge
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/Scholes/modlist/Title.html -- Modernism