Reading List & Ratinale

Text Book used:The Norton Anthology World Literature Vol 1Shorter 4 TH Edition.
The Reading List & Rationale assignment is very straightforward. I am looking for exactly what the instructions list. Do not make it more complicated than it is. Follow the directions line by line:
Part 1. Compile a reading list from the textbook used in this course for your ideal LIT 2110 World Literature I course. Your list should include at least 8 selections, and should best represent your understanding of how literature is an artifact of its culture. Include titles and authors. Include specific sections, chapters, or pages, if applicable. You may, OF COURSE, include literature we’ve read together. There’s nothing here prohibiting that. The assignment does not specify a minimum or maximum number of works of literature so there is no maximum or minimum. The right number is however many texts you feel a student could reasonably read in an ordinary 16 week semester and how many texts a student should read to best accomplish the student learning outcomes of World Literature. THIS ASSIGNMENT IS A TEST OF YOUR ANALYTICAL AND LOGIC SKILLS. YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THESE SPECIFICS AND THEN JUSTIFY YOUR CHOICES.
Part II Below youre the list you compiled, Write a RATIONALE of 750-1000 words for your reading list that identifies your theme and how the readings support that theme. Consider the rationale on the course syllabus, the course introduction video, and the monomyth video. Your audience is not me, but students new to World Literature I, like you were 4 months ago. Justify your choices–all of them. Explain the theme you’ve chosen. The theme is the primary understanding about world literature, world cultures, and/or any other aspect of humanity that you think students should come away with. Our theme is the quest–this, to me, is why we create art and experience art. For you, it might be that or something different. Make a choice and justify it. Explain how many works you’ve chosen to demonstrate that theme and why. Explain why you’ve chosen the works you’ve chosen. How do each of these works demonstrate the theme? If you need a model, follow the links in the assignment instructions. Our syllabus and the videos introducing the course ARE models.
3. Upload a polished presentation of your reading list and rationale/course introduction in a SINGLE Word file. Include an MLA style header. Polished means professional, no errors, ready to share with the world.
If you have questions, of course reach out, but do some due diligence first. Look up words in a dictionary. Explore the resources I’ve offered you. SLOW down and read each sentence of each instructions slowly and carefully. As always, remember the JFK Rule on the Email Etiquette handout: Before you ask someone else, ask what you have done to help yourself first.
Finally, DON’T FREAK OUT! The assignment is not designed to trick you. Everything you need is laid out for you. Follow the instructions step by step. The goal of the assignment as a final examination is for you to demonstrate what you know about world literature and why or how you know it. In other words, demonstrate that you have achieved the student learning outcomes as listed on our course syllabus:
This course also helps develop the general education skill of (1) critical/creative thinking; (2) communication; (3) cultural literacy; and (4) information and technical literacy.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: (General Education Skills)
Students will be able to (the numbers in parentheses refer to the general education skills above):
Read critically, interpret and appreciate literary texts of multiple genres. (1)
Identify and explain how literary texts are relevant to their own experience and to the experiences of their own communities. (1, 3)
Explain how literary texts reflect and sometime challenge the historical, social and cultural contexts in which they are embedded. (1,3)
Write about literary texts at a college level. (1,2, 4)

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