Assignments for Week # 7 ENL 121 (Vavra)
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-- William Butler Yeats
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Due In-class
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M/T
Feb. 20/21
W7A		 Be prepared to take Cornell Notes.
2. Finish A Doll's House.

3. In 50 to 150 words, explain how your perceptions of Nora and Torvald have changed.

Work on MP #1

 Collect Cornell Notes.

Quiz

Discuss
W/Th
Feb. 22/23
W7B		 Be prepared to take Cornell Notes.
1. MP # 1 1st Due Date

2. If you have not read Hamlet, you might want to read either Mary and Charles Lamb's version of Hamlet or the version by E. Nesbit. 

3. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I
Study questions:
1) How does the first line of the play establish a theme for the first scene? 
2) Explain the pun in Hamlet's "I am too much in the sun." 
3) What is the purpose of Act I? 
4) How does it fulfill that purpose? 
5) What does the ghost tell Hamlet? 
6)How does the act emphasize the conflict between appearance and reality?
   Pay special attention to the following lines:
Hamlet (I, II) "O, that..." pp. 10-11
Polonius (I, III) "yet, here ..." p.17

 Collect Cornell Notes.

Collect MP # 1

Lecture: The Great Chain of Being

Quiz on Hamlet?
Discuss Act I
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Its bottom.