Your last regular blog on the readings is due this Sunday, May 8. After that, your final blog post, as noted on the syllabus, is due Sunday, May 21st by midnight. Your assignment for that last blog post (10% of your final grade) is a little more extensive than the regular blog assignment.
As a final piece of writing, it should attempt to tie the semester together and provide closure to your literature blog. You are expected to reflect on the texts as a whole, the themes we have encountered as a whole, and the responses you have written on your blog. This final piece of writing should also reflect on your increased understanding of women's literatures, lives, and experiences. Consider the following questions as prompts for writing (but don't feel as if you need to answer each question). Pick some topics that are important to you and use them to help shape your writing.
* What is women’s literature, what does it try to accomplish, and why is that important?
* What experiences define women’s lives? What is celebrated, lamented, vented in anger?
* What is important to women in history, relationships, education, their bodies, self-identity, progress, and expression?
* What have you learned throughout this course? What do you know now that you didn't know before? What have you gained?
* What strikes you as important in all the discussions we have had? What have these texts made you think about, reconsider, or wonder?
This final blog post should be 600-800 words long, should include specific examples from some of the readings we have done, and should demonstrate your ability to analyze the literature of the course as a complete unit. However, you do not need to quote from every text we have read. Choose some texts that stand out to you or help you prove your ideas. Use the semesters' blogs to help you pull out some direct quotes.
This assignment, although somewhat longer and broader in scope, requires the same type of writing that you have been doing all semester, and it will be graded using the same exact rubric and criteria as all blogs.
I look forward to reading these final pieces.
