American Literature
Overview & Purpose
Throughout this course you have learned about various genres, authors and human values as it pertains to social and historical context in American Literature. For your final assignment you will have the option to create a mind-map, a powerpoint, or write a paper that discusses and author from one of the genres and evaluates the human values within its historical and social context that made this piece critical to the genre. To support your claims you will need to find a minimum of three additional resources and cite them using proper APA formatting. You will have two weeks to work on the final and will have milestones along the way. The milestones will include discussion boards so that you can receive constructive feedback from your instructor and peers to assure that you are on the right track to successful completion.
Objectives
- Learner will be able to evaluate a piece of literature as it pertains to human values within a historical and social content of the piece.
- Learner will be able to formulate the characteristics of a minimum of three literary genres.
- Learner will be able to evaluate a piece of literature as it pertains to human values within a historical and social content of the piece.
Assessments
- Discussion Forum 1: Share the genres you have chosen along with which author you plan on focusing and your thesis statement in the class discussion board.
- Discussion Forum 2: Create an annotated bibliography that will be shared in this week’s discussion board. (This will help you evaluate your sources and how they will fit into your final draft).
- Quiz to measure knowledge of APA formatting.
- Create a mind-map, a powerpoint, or write a paper that discusses and author from one of the genres and evaluates the human values within its historical and social context that made this piece critical to the genre. To support your claims you will need to find a minimum of three additional resources and cite them using proper APA formatting
Link to Discussion Forums: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/americanliteraturegenres
Link to APA Quiz: http://goo.gl/forms/mcpTWr9Eyp
