First
- Read “American Literature since 1945”
- Faulkner’s bio and “A Rose for Emily”
Post an original discussion thread AND
- Respond to someone else.
- ORIGINAL POST (OP): Your original post should note something you found interesting or surprising in “A Rose for Emily.” Include at least one direct quotation from Faulkner’s short story.
- Make sure your comments and observations are ORIGINAL. If you copy what others have said it will not count. This means you have to read other posts!
- RESPONSE to someone’s OP: respond to someone else’s post with an answer to their question or a disagreement with an example. Don’t just say “I agree.”
Make sure in total you have written at least 300 words, spread across your two parts in any way.
Second
- Bishop’s bio and poetry
- O’Connor bio and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
- . What details did you find most interesting?
- What did the reading make you wonder about, want to know more about, or remind you of? How did the background reading help? How are these writers’ works exemplifying “postmodernism”?
- Be sure your response is at least 350 words long, and includes one short direct quotation from BOTH PRIMARY texts (by O’Connor and Bishop).
