Thursday, March 14, 2013
Round 3 of presentations
In preparation for the presentations, please read one selection from each group below. Fill in the "upcoming presentations" wksts., due tomorrow prior to the presentations.
Note: You do not need to read an article from your own section, if you are presenting. You will need to read an article for the other presentation.
Mid-19th century writers
Mark Twain "Concerning Tobacco"
Frederick Douglass "The End of All Compromises with Slavery-- Now and Forever"
Harriet Jacobs "The Loophole of Retreat"
Feminist Writers of the 19th century
Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Why Women Do Not Reform their Dress"
Margaret Fuller "American Literature; Its Position in the Present Time, and Prospects for the Future"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech "Solitude of Self" (read first two pages of speech)
Late 19th century writers
Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Times"
Charles Darwin "The Descent of Man" (read ch. 1, pages 1-3)
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (read the preface to this book)
Thomas Macaulay quotes
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