Discussions Forums

The following list duplicates the 27 scheduled forums in EduCat. They are provided here for convenience. Go to the corresponding forum in EduCat to post your contribution and participate in additional discussion. To avoid losing work during unexpected web outages, it is recommended that you compose your contribution using software on your local device before going to EduCat to copy and paste it there.

Each contribution must be no less than 200 words in length and submitted no later than 9am on the day of class. Bear in mind that forum contributions are no substitute for class attendance and participation.

To receive credit, you must

• submit the contribution prior to class

• come to class on time with your copy of the required text

• participate throughout the entirety of the class

Failure to fulfill any one of these three requirements could result in a grade of zero for that day’s class. These pre-class and class participation requirements account for 75% of the total grade.

1. Beowulf: Introduction
2. Beowulf: Agons 1 and 2
3. Beowulf: Agon 3
4. The Canterbury Tales: Introduction and The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
5. The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
6. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
7. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
8. Second Shepherd’s Pageant
9. Everyman
10. Shakespeare, King Lear, Acts 1-2
11. Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3
12. Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4
13. Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5
14. Shakespeare, Sonnets 15 and 73; Jonson, “On Court Worm”; “On Something that Walks Somewhere”
15. Jonson, “To Penshurst”
16. Aemilia Lanyer: Description of Cooke-ham
17. Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 1, 40, and 68
18. Donne, “The Flea”; Holy Sonnet XIV: “Batter my heart”
19. Milton, Paradise Lost Book 1
20. Milton, Paradise Lost Selections
21. Milton, Paradise Lost Book 9
22. Milton, Paradise Lost Book 9
23. The Rover, Act 1
24. The Rover, Acts 2-3
25. The Rover, Acts 4-5
26. Pope, Rape of the Lock Cantos 1-2
27. Pope, Rape of the Lock Cantos 3-5

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