Week of May 21: 'Anthem' by Ayn Rand

We will be looking at Ayn Rand's novella Anthem, which is available at Project Gutenberg as a free download. It is also available for free at Amazon for Kindle users.

Click here for background information about this 20th-century Russian-American philosopher and author

We will consider this allegorical work as a product of its time and place, and we will consider how the social and political influences around her shaped her thinking.

And we will be critical in our thinking.

Iliad: Notes

Here is an excerpt from C. M. Gayley's Classic Myths in English Literature to help you with your reading of Homer's Iliad.

Click here for a  map of Greece.  You wil have to click on the type of map you want to view.  Choose "myth map.")  Here are the BBC video clips about the history of the actual Troy.

Gordimer and Achebe

Here are interviews with South African writer Nadine Gordimer and Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.

Works Cited Sample

Due Wednesday, May 3, the works cited sample should follow the MLA guidelines in format and content.

Make sure your paper has 1" margins and is double spaced throughout.  Don't add more space between lines.  Remember, citations that are longer than one line must be formatted with hanging indentations. You can make the adjustment using the ruler or by going into the paragraph format pull-down  menu and choosing "hanging" under the "special option.

The two-sentence annotation should include a statement of what the site is about and what you found most useful or interesting. 

Here is a sample:

Sandy Carlson

Works Cited

Auschwitz.org. 2 May 2012 http://auschwitz.org/ >

This Web site focuses on the museum and memorial to Holocaust victims who suffered at Auschwitz.  This site has an extensive gallery of artwork created by concentration camp inmates.