Extra Credit

If you want or need extra credit, here's your extra credit assignment:

1) choose any poem or poems (totaling at least 16 lines) that we've looked at in class;

2) practice reading the poem/poems;

3) log into our class YouTube account (username: English528@gmail.com; password: 1600holloway);

4) record your reading of the poem - - upload or save the video and publish it.

Don't just impersonate a zombie reading a poem - - use your performance of the poem to interpret the poem.

Due date: noon, Tuesday, December 15, 2009.

"Paper Doll"

Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers swinging "Paper Doll"

Final short paper (due: Thursday 12/10)

Your final piece of formal writing for the class is a two-page essay that simply answers the following question: in what ways is the Harlem Renaissance (as referenced by our reading of Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, and Alaine Locke) related to literary modernism?

Alfieri and Eddie

For Tuesday, December 1

Read and finish Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge."

Enjoy your holiday!

For Tuesday, November 17

Read the Jean Toomer selections from the Heath Anthology, including:

Karintha (1923)

Blood-Burning Moon (1923)
Box Seat (1923)
Seventh Street (1923)
Song of the Son (1923)

For Thursday, November 12

You'll want to read the following from the Heath anthology: Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Alaine Locke, “The New Negro.”