The Not-So-Absent-Minded Professor


Created by Marion Carmickle


Introduction | Task | Procedure | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits

Introduction:

In today's universities, many of the courses are offered online or, at the least, include online components. Professors are challenged to present academic information that is easily understood by the user who may or may not ever see his or her smiling face. The professor must provide not only information that reliable but also interesting; graphics that portray the "feeling" of the piece may also be required to capture the attention of virtual students.

Task

You are a full professor of British Literature at the University of Everybodyisincrediblysmart. The chairperson of the English department has just informed you that you will be teaching an online course dealing with a specific author of British literature for the upcoming semester. You must create a web site to present all of the pertinent information which will include an introduction to the course, information about the author, contributions to literature and literary history, excerpts from his/her work and citations for further information.

Procedure:

Choose an author from the list below.
 

Sir Thomas Wyatt "My Lute Awake!"
Elizabeth I "On Monsieur's Departure"
Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Sir Walter Raleigh "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
Edmund Spenser "Sonnet 30" "Sonnet 75"
John Donne "A Valediction"Forbidding Mourning"
"Holy Sonnet 10"
Ben Jonson "On My First Son", "Still to be Neat"
Robert Herrick "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Andrew Marvell "To His Coy Mistress"
Richard Lovelace "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
John Milton "How soon Hath Time"
"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"
Alexander Pope from "An Essay on Man"
Thomas Gray "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
William Blake from Songs of Innocence : "The Lamb", "The Little Boy Lost", "The Little Boy Found"
William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
"The World Is Too Much with Us"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Kubla Khan", "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
George Gordon, Lord Byron "She Walks in Beauty", "When We Two Parted"
Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias"
"Ode to the West Wind"
"To the Skylark"
John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" or "La Belle Dame san Merci"
"To Autumn"
"When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
"Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shallot"
"Ulysses"
from "In Memoriam"
"Crossing the Bar"
from "Charge of the Light Brigade"
Robert Browning "My Last Duchess", "Porphyria's Lover"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet 43"
Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
"To Marguerite-Continued"
Gerard Manley Hopkins "Pied Beauty", "Spring and Fall: To A Young Child"
Thomas Hardy "The Man He Killed"
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
"The Convergence of the Twain"
A.E. Hosman "When I was One-And-Twenty", "To An Athlete Dying Young"
Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", "In My Craft or Sullen Art"
T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"
William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming"
"Sailing to Byzantium"
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
"The Lake At Innisfree"
Rupert Brooke "The Soldier"
Wilfred Owen "Dulce it Decorum Est"
W.H. Auden "Musee de Beaux Arts", "The Unknown Citizen"
Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"

Using the Literature Resource Center, Scribner's, or Twayne Authors online databases as well as literary criticism print resources (Poetry for Students, Gale's Literary Criticism, Bloom's Criticism from the 800's section) find the following information:
 

Upon completion of your research, you will create a web page to present your information. You will use the template provided to create the web page. REMEMBER! You are a "learned" literature professor who will be presenting this information to students ONLINE! You must be very clear in your presentation and all information MUST be accurate. You must include the elements listed in the rubric below.

Evaluation

Your teachers have provided you with the rubric for the content of your web page. You will also be required to follow the rubric provided to create your web page.
Web Design Rubric

Conclusion

This has been your opportunity to provide accurate information for an educational purpose. Remember, knowledge is power. Your page may help to empower someone else!

Credits:
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