BBL 3217 (Poetry and Drama in English)

(PJJ, 2/2010-2011)

1) MAKLUMAT TUGASAN & UJIAN PERTENGAHAN

2) SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS (DRAMA SECTION)

Prepared by

Dr. Arbaayah Ali Termizi

Line : 03-89468692 E-mail : arbaayah@fbmk.upm.edu.my

Course work distribution

Essay - 40%

Mid semester exam - 30%

Final exam - 30%

TOTAL - 100%

Topics for Essay (40%)

Choose one of the following topics. (Note: You may write on any poem from your text, strictly with the exception of ones used for discussion and/or sample essays by the Editors. You are, however, encouraged to write on the core poems listed in the module).

1) Write an account of three poems which are linked by mood. These mood might be about love, fear, nature, sleep, or childhood experience. In what different ways do you find the writing conveys the nature of the experience?

Topics for Essay (Cont’d)

Use only one of the following plays* for this essay:

• William Shakespeare – Hamlet • Sophocles – Oedipus Rex/Oedipus the King • Tennessee Williams - The Glass Managerie

* All these texts are in Kirszner and Mandell edition

2) Using Reader Response Criticism (read details in Kirszner and Mandell) write an essay which concentrates on the attributes of any ONE protagonist in your selected play.

DUE DATE : 2 weeks before the final examination date

General guidelines for Essay

• Essay is five to ten pages long (A4), font 12, Times New Roman, double spacing with proper margin and grammatically comprehensible.

• The essay must have an introduction, body and conclusion.

• Citation to references must follow the MLA format.• The content of your existing module and textbook is

useful for the purpose of this assignment but the use of other references is encouraged.

• Marks will be deducted if the essay does the following:– It exceeds ten pages – It is full of ridiculous grammatical errors. – It does not answer the question as specified. – It reaches the examiner long past the due date.

If you are not sure how to write the essays….

Please refer to Kirszner, L.G. & Mandell, S.R. (eds.). Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. 6th ed. Boston: Thomson. 2007

Chapters:a) Chapter 24 – Reading and Writing about

Poetryb) Chapter 38 – Reading and Writing about

Drama

What to study for your mid semester exam (BBL3217) – 30%

Please refer to module on the page next to 63 for the list of poems for the course

Info on these poems is as prescribed in this module and extra reading should be from the actual reference which is from the Roberts and Jacobs edition (available in UPM library)

You need to know the definition of terms as well as details about the selected poems for your mid sem exam.

Definition of terms will cover from unit 1 to 13. Details of the selected poems might require students to

explicate the selected quotations from the poems. The selection of poems will only cover from no.1 to 7 in the list.

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS (DRAMA SECTION)

The section on drama will be covered in the second half of the semester. For this section, you will need to

rely mostly on:

 

Kirszner, L.G. & Mandell, S.R. (eds.). Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. 6th ed. Boston: Thomson. 2007

 

Read the following chapters from the above textbook for the drama section:

  Chapter 36 - Understanding Drama Chapter 38 - Reading and Writing about Drama Chapter 39 - Plot Chapter 40 - Character Chapter 41 - Staging Chapter 42 - Theme

Extra reading (references)

1) Roberts, Edgar V. and Henry E. Jacobs. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. 4th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 1995

2) Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 9th ed. New York: Pearson. 2005.