Quotes & Questions post info
What makes certain lines from a text jump off the page and fill you with interest and curiosity? Why do some passages carry more meaning and significance than others?
For example, in the Clerk’s Tale, Griselda cautions her callous lord, Walter:
O thing biseke I yow, and warne also,
On days that we don't have paragraphs due, we'll have what I call Quotes and Questions. Your responsibility will be to post a quotation that seems to merit in-depth discussion OR a question that you think we all need to consider about our reading for the day - one that will enrich our thinking or help us consider the text in a useful way.
As with the paragraphs, we will both post them here and read them aloud in class.
You are required to give your post two labels 1) the name of the text for the day (half of them are listed below in my labels on this post), and 2) Quotes & Questions. If you are posting a quotation, you must give a correct citation for it (line numbers for poetry; page numbers for prose). You do not have to post anything other than your quote or question - no elaboration is required here unless you choose to offer some.
Although you are not required to post an image in your Quotes & Questions posts, you are highly encouraged to include one that illustrates the idea expressed (if you do, please be sure to credit the image source, as in your paragraph posts).
For example, in the Clerk’s Tale, Griselda cautions her callous lord, Walter:
O thing biseke I yow, and warne also,
That ye ne prike with no tormentinge
This tendre maiden, as ye han don mo;
For she is fostred in hir norissinge
Moore tenderly, and to my supposinge
She koude nat adversitee endure
As koude a povre fostred creature (“The Clerk’s Tale,” ll. 1037-1043)
This direct
and uncompromising speech, coming from a character who has patiently suffered
throughall of the cruelty that Walter has dished out, is a powerful turning
point in the tale. Plus, the rhyme and enjambment here is elegantly crafted. In
short: there's a lot to discuss about this passage, isn't there?
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On days that we don't have paragraphs due, we'll have what I call Quotes and Questions. Your responsibility will be to post a quotation that seems to merit in-depth discussion OR a question that you think we all need to consider about our reading for the day - one that will enrich our thinking or help us consider the text in a useful way.
As with the paragraphs, we will both post them here and read them aloud in class.
You are required to give your post two labels 1) the name of the text for the day (half of them are listed below in my labels on this post), and 2) Quotes & Questions. If you are posting a quotation, you must give a correct citation for it (line numbers for poetry; page numbers for prose). You do not have to post anything other than your quote or question - no elaboration is required here unless you choose to offer some.
Although you are not required to post an image in your Quotes & Questions posts, you are highly encouraged to include one that illustrates the idea expressed (if you do, please be sure to credit the image source, as in your paragraph posts).
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