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 * Homework for Monday, 17 May 2010:

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If you have ANY corrections or revisions to the final draft of your** **Macbeth Essay Assignment, please use this extra time to make those changes. Please e-mail me if you have any questions.**

2nd draft w/ sources due for** **Macbeth Essay Assignment**
 * 10 May

Some things to remember as you work on your second draft:

-Play titles should be in //italics//. This will help show when you're talking about the character Macbeth and when you're talking about the play //Macbeth//.

-Try to think of a strong conclusion. End your essay with any interesting questions or overall thoughts you now have about the play, Shakespeare, movies vs. stage plays, etc.

-Cite your sources - these will be mostly movies and websites, so look at the citation format links I put on the assignment page.

-Write about the making of the play/movies in the past tense, but write about what happens in the plot of the play in the present tense ("Shakespeare **wrote**...." but "In Act I, Macbeth **is** unable to decide...")

-Consider organizing your essay not by movie (one body paragraph per movie) but by theme (one paragraph each for weather / violence / supernatural). Most people so far are just listing their thoughts on each movie in order, and it would be interesting to see a few essays organized by theme.

Outline Due for** **Macbeth Essay Assignment**
 * 3 May


 * 21 April

Start taking notes for and thinking about the upcoming Macbeth Essay Assignment

24 March**

Start Elizabethan Poets and Dramatists Project.


 * Update 17 March**

Homework: No homework tonight. Again, please be ready to continue our discussion of Elizabethan England when we return.

11 February

Start Chaucer Project 2 - We will work on this in class on Tuesday and Wednesday - Due before class on **Friday, February 19**


 * 8 February**

1. Write a second draft of your Beowulf Compare and Contrast Essay. Incorporate my edits and make some changes of your own.

Try to focus on improving your use of paragraph topic sentences and transition words and phrases. - Due 11 Feb. Note that titles of epic poems and movies should be in (I think?) italics.

1. Canterbury Tales Project 1 - due Wednesday, February 3 1. Beowulf Compare and Contrast Essay Draft - Due Tuesday, January 26 1. Alliterative Poem Assignment - Due Monday, January 18 Anglo-Saxon Culture Project