Knowledge Topics and Discussion Topic Days
Survey of British Literature II
Assignment Sheet
The purpose of the knowledge topic is to give each of you a different "stake" and area of expertise in a specific area of juvenile literature. The idea is that you will prepare a two page document (for me) and a brief (2-3 minute) report (for the class) that you think will bring interesting, novel, and engaging material to our discussions. Both the paper and the presentation can be relatively informal, although you should have a structured approach to the presentation. You can draw rather loosely on personal insights and reflections for both portions of the assignment. For example, if you embarked on the topic with one set of expectations and discovered (to your delight or dismay) that you find the topic taking you in another direction, that's worth knowing in this context. In order to prepare the assignment you should go to the library (virtually or physically) and explore materials that are available which may have bearing on your topic. (If you can't find anything, or seem not to be able to find anything, please come and talk to me.) Using the materials that you have found, prepare a two page (double-spaced) document that explores the topic and explains it in a way that might be informative to your fellow classmates. Provide at least two references that are not from encyclopedias or from the web.Your sources should adhere to a standard citation format such as the following:
Bryan G. Norton. Why Preserve Natural Variety? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.J. H. Prescott. "Clever Hans: Training the trainers, or the potential for misinterpreting the results of dolphin research." Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Vol. 364 (1981):137-144.
STUDENT Knowledge Topic (KT) KT Date Discussion Topics Abbe, Robert James Dramatic Monologue - Browning April 11th Feb. 7 Buck, Daniel Clay Samuel Johnson Feb. 21 Feb. 14 Burdette, Jenny Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mar. 21 Feb. 21 Butcher, David Michael David Hume Feb. 7th Feb. 28 Cantrell, Matthew J. W. Goethe March 21st Mar. 7 Choi, Hanel Jonathan Swift Feb. 7th Mar. 14. Cotton, Amy George Eliot April 18th Mar. 21 Couch, Zanda Cheryl Anna Laetitia Barbauld March 7th Mar. 28 Crisan, Corina The "Bluestockings" March 7th Apr. 4 Gillespie, Sarah Jane Austen April 4th Apr. 11 Glover, Robert Charles Dickens Apr. 11 Apr. 18 Hambright, Jane Aphra Behn March 7th Apr. 25 Hawks, Michael Alfred, Lord Tennyson April 4th May. 2 Johnson, Dawn Alisha Fanny Burney Feb. 28th Feb. 7 McKee, Kristen Annelle Mary Wollstonecraft March 7th Feb. 14 Miller, Andrew John Lord Byron March 14th Feb. 21 Minott, Tiffany L Percy Bysshe Shelley April 4th Feb. 28 Padgett, Adam Steven Mary Shelley April 4th Mar. 7 Peper, Robert James John Keats April 4th Mar. 14. Pfahl, Jacqui Christina Rossetti April 18th Mar. 21 Poeder, Lauren William Wordsworth March 14th Mar. 28 Sassanian, Tim Thomas Carlyle April 18th Apr. 4 Smith, Lizabeth A William Blake March 14th Apr. 11 Smith, Margaret Alexander Pope Feb. 14th Apr. 18 Twagirimana, Olivier Oscar Wilde April 25th Apr. 25 Watson, Katrina Virginia Woolf May 2nd May. 2 Welsh, Lhea Marie John Ruskin Apr. 18 Feb. 7 Whetzel, Katherine William Morris May 2nd Feb. 14
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