Next to Last Set of Questions for EN 190/190HM

Good afternoon :)

It looks like tomorrow will be a day mostly for review.  Danny and Aurora, are you still doing your presentations in class?  Also, I'm not sure if everyone has signed up!

Yesterday we had a number of wonderful presentations: Juan's presentation on Dante and the Divine Comedy; Christian, Ambrose, and Samir's presentation on baseball and race; Amber's presentation on Ophelia syndrome; and Orlando's presentation comparing Nosferatu and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.  Thank you!

Here are a few questions to help you continue with your review.

-- Choose one of the presentations we've seen or you've looked at on MyMC.  How has it helped you understand literature more fully?

-- Choose your presentation.  How is working on it helping you understand literature more fully?

-- Should we read more older work in EN 190 like Shakespeare or Dante or other authors?  Why?  Why not?

-- Choose one of the readings listed below at our study guide:  http://en202.blogspot.com/2013/11/study-guide-for-final-en-190190hm-fall.html  What does this reading add to EN 190?  Why? Could it be taken out?  Why?

-- Choose one of the readings listed on our study guide.  How does it exemplify its genre (short story, film, or poem)?  How is it different from other examples of the genre?

-- Go to MyMC or our textbook.  Then choose one of the readings listed on our study guide.  How does this reading choose one of the key terms for the second half of EN 190/190HM?  How does your knowledge of this term help you understand the reading more fully?

-- Choose two poems.  Why are they worth comparing?  How does comparing them help you understand them more fully?  Which poems are not worth comparing?  Why?

-- Choose a theme such as parent/child relationships, youth, gender, America, nature, etc..  Choose two readings, preferably from the second half of the semester, that depict the theme in a DIFFERENT way.  How does this comparison help you understand them more fully?  How does it help you with the theme?

-- Choose one reading.  How many different themes apply to it?  Why?

-- How is your research helping you understand the readings that you are comparing and contrasting?

-- What is most difficult about your research?  Why?

Feel free to send me your rough draft of the last paper.  Also, be sure to write up your evaluation of the class while the link is still available!

See you at our last class.  :)