OnLine Summary/Response Presentations

English 123
Professor Patrick Leong
OnLine Summary/Response Presentations
Hello,
As you will notice on your class schedule, we are to start the writing,
posting, and discussion of research you find on a specific poem or short
story. We will begin this process on 6/17 – 6/22 for poetry and continue with
it on 6/24 –7/06 for short stories. On the syllabus, it is noted under
“summary/response” and “presentations.” Here is how this will work.
First, I have attached a sign-up sheet to this email. Each student
MUST
sign up to present thoughts on either a poem or a short story. There can
only be a MAX of 2 students presenting the same poem or story. Please
reply to this email with your top 3 choices in priority. It is on a first come
first serve basis. After each student has responded as to which piece of
literature they would like to present, it is time to begin the research.
What I am asking each student to do is to find a piece of professional
literary criticism on a specific poem or short story. If 2 students have signed
up and chosen the same poem or short story, make sure to communicate
with each other so that you are not presenting the same piece of criticism.
For example, if Mike and Beth choose Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy,” each of
them must find a different article to present to the class. Once you find an
article to present, you must write a
ONE-page summary
of the criticism
and a
ONE-page response
to the ideas the author presents in the
criticism. You will post your summary/response on the main discussion
board on the listed due date for a whole class discussion. From there, each
student in the class then will comment on what you presented in the
summary and response. That means, if you are not presenting, to earn
credit, each student needs to respond in the whole class discussion to the
summary/response on the main discussion board. If you are a presenter that
day, you do not need to respond to other presentations. Your work is to
present. This is how you’ll make your presentations, how you’ll earn credit,
and how we’ll discuss the literature.
This assignment is worth 10% (100 points) of the total course grade. After
the student posts his/her summary response by the due date, the rest of the
students will have until the end of the day to respond to it. I’ll post the
deadline for responses. Please note: The chances are you will not find
specific criticism on a particular poem or short story. If this is the case, you
will need to search for criticism based on the TITLE of the book the poem or
short story comes from. By finding criticism on the entire work the specific
piece of literature comes from, you will find that the criticism will argue and
develop themes and perspectives the author gets out with the entire work,
and the poem or short story will contribute to that criticism. For example,
you will not find specific criticism for Mitsuye Yamada’s poem “The
Question of Loyalty,” but if you search for the criticism on the book,
Camp
Notes and Other Poems
, where the poem comes from, you will find criticism
that you can use to develop the summary/response.
When beginning to write the summary and response, post the link where
the article is located then please cite (MLA style) the article at the start of
the presentation. Example:
Witherington, Paul. “The Accomplice in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’.” Studies
in Short Fiction, 22 (1985): 471-475.
After the citation, begin the one-page summary followed by the one-page
response to the article. Obviously, this assignment pulls on the knowledge
of analyzing what professionals have to say about the literature and being
able to summarize those points and develop a response around the ideas the
professional develops and the skills practiced and learning in English 122

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