Below are a number of possible topics (along with possible dates) for our brief reports. You may well not know a thing about the topic you choose; that is the point: to find out about a subject and present it in an entertaining and intelligent manner to the rest of us. We will generate some other topics in class, such as "frame stories."
Alternatively, you may come up with your own idea for a presentation. All kinds of creative and thoughtful presentations are encouraged.
9/12 What is the Romantic Period? Faith
Who is William Blake? Denise
9/15 What is the French Revolution? Adam
9/17 Who is William Wordsworth? Leo
What is poetry (meter, verse, and rhyme)? Julie
9/24 Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge? Sara
Who is Mary Robinson? Amber
9/26 Who is Jane Austen? Alison
What is irony? Christopher Y.
9/29 What is a bildungsroman? Heather
10/10 Who is John Keats? Debby
10/17 Who is Percy Shelley? Kevin H.
10/22 What is the Victorian period? Jenn C.
Who is Emily Bront�? Lauren
10/24 Who is Queen Victoria? Theresa
10/31 Who is Alfred Tennyson? Kevin T.
What is a poet laureate? Anthony
What about that Lady of Shallot? Emily
Chris
11/3 Who is Elizabeth Browning? Lynn
Who is Robert Browning? Lynette
11/10 Who is Christina Rossetti? Karen
11/12 Who is Thomas Hardy? Kevin
11/17 What is literary modernism? Jeff
Who is Virginia Woolf? Sam
What is stream of consciousness? Cathy
12/1 Who is T.S. Eliot? April
12/8 Eliot and Anti-Semitism Mark & Jenn A
Eliot and Symbolism Tricia
Objective Correlative Jocelyn
"Hamlet" Jen B
Presentations guidelines
Presentations should be at least five minutes; try not to be longer than ten.
Presentations are graded pass/fail, until final
grading when a few outstanding presentations will contribute to an
improved final grade.