Critical Essay Due Week 4 Finally, students willwrite acritical essay(about 500 words) to demonstrate their ability to analyze a work (poetry) in order to illustrate ideas relevant to this course. I....

Critical Essay Due Week 4

Finally, students willwrite acritical essay(about 500 words) to demonstrate their ability to analyze a work (poetry) in order to illustrate ideas relevant to this course.

I. Assignment:

Reviewwww.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83#
Students will read the poems by Langston Hughes from their Selected Poems text. Students will also write posting #2 on the discussion board and make comments to classmates. Posting includes:
a.) their choice of 2 Hughes' poems they relate to and
b.) their choice of another poem (could be song lyrics) that they find insightful.
c. Finally, students will write a critical essay (about 500 words) to demonstrate their ability to analyze a work (poetry) in order to illustrate ideas relevant to this course.

II. Here are the Syllabus Requirements:


Humanistic and Artistic Ways of Knowing

1. Recognize and describe humanistic, historical, or artistic works or problems and patterns of the human experience.
2. Apply disciplinary methodologies,epistemologies, and traditions of the humanities
and the arts, including the ability to distinguish primary and secondary sources.
3. Analyze and evaluate texts, objects, events, or ideas in their cultural, intellectual or historical contexts
4. Analyze the concepts and principles of various types of humanistic or artistic
expression.
5. Create, interpret, or reinterpret artistic and/or humanistic works through
performance or criticism.
6. Develop arguments about forms of human agency or expression grounded in rational analysis and in an understanding of and respect for spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts.
7. Analyze diverse narratives and evidence in order to explore the complexity of human experience across space and time.
III.Formulate a thesis questionto explore in the essay. See the Purdue UniversityOnlineWriting Lab.https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/697/1
IV. The University of NorthCarolina Chapel Hill has a great brainstorming
thesis questions page.http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/brainstorming/