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.
Alternatively, you may come up with your own idea for a presentation. All kinds of creative and thoughtful presentations are encouraged.
Week 2 What is the Romantic Period?
Who is William Blake? Kelly D.
What was the French Revolution? Jon R.
Who is William Wordsworth?
What is poetry? Kerry T.
Week 3 Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge? Kristina O.
What is Gothic?
3/8 What is irony? Rebecca W.
3/15 What is an epiphany? Kristin C.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley? Nicole L.
3/22 Who is John Keats? Krista H.
3/24 What is the Victorian period? Jamie F.
4/9 Who is Emily Bronte? Kim F.
4/12 Gothic Sunny & Kelly
4/14 Who is Alfred Tennyson? Julie Z.
4/14 What is a poet laureate? Kathryn H.
4/19 What is the Lady of Shalott? Meghan S.
4/21 Who is Elizabeth Browning? Melissa C.
4/21 Who is Robert Browning? Stephanie S.
4/23 Who is Christina Rossetti? Wendy M.
4/23 What is the Pre-Raphaelites brotherhood?Jaime H.
4/26 What happened in WWI? Mike C., Adam
Who is Thomas Hardy? Dori W.
4/30 Who are Owen & Sassoon? Marie W.
WWI soldier's perspectives John K.
5/3 What is Modernism? Tammy K.
5/3 Who is Virginia Woolf? Amanda C.
Jaime H.
5/3 What is stream of consciousness? Melissa K.
5/5 Bloomsbury Jennifer J.
5/7 Woolf and feminism Alicia M
5/12 Film of Mrs. D. Lindsay A.
5/14 Who is T.S. Eliot? Sarah B.
5/17 What is Modernist poetry? Meredith K.
5/17 T.S. Eliot & antisemitism Sean
5/19 Timeline Stephanie F.
[unaccounted for: Reece
Presentations guidelines
Presentations should be at least five minutes; try not to be much longer
than
ten.
Presentations are graded pass/fail, until final
grading when a few outstanding presentations will contribute to an
improved final grade.