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Literature Class Agenda and Homework Overview

Today’s agenda includes explaining the next class's homework related to Gulliver’s Travels and "The Royal Exchange" by Joseph Addison. We will discuss presentations, Essay 1, and the Writing Center. A quiz on specific pages, contexts for GT, Swift's perspective, and quotes by Terry Eagleton follows. Details on Swift’s reputation and evaluations from different centuries will be shared. Highlights from Part 4 of GT will be reviewed. For the next class, read Part 4, Chapters 9-12 of Gulliver’s Travels and Addison’s “The Royal Exchange.” Presentation sign-ups and preferences are due.

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Literature Class Agenda and Homework Overview

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  1. Today’s Agenda • Explain homework for next class. • Mention presentations, Essay 1, & the Writing Center. • Quiz (on pages 2301-03 & 2323-24, the PowerPoint slides of context for GT, and two questions are on GT, Part 4, Chapters 1-4.) • Underscore Swift’s position and perspective. • Go over the quotations by Terry Eagleton (handout). • Go over Swift’s reputation (Handout—Writers’ Comments) • Four categories: 18th century, Romantic, Victorian, Modern • What main are the main points of their evaluations of Swift? • As time allows, go over highlights of Part 4 of GT. • What parts stand out to you and why?

  2. Homework for next class • Read Gulliver’s Travels: Part 4, Chapters 9-12 (pp. 2447-62) and Joseph Addison’s “The Royal Exchange” (from The Spectator, pp. 2479-81) • Sign ups for presentations will be on Tuesday in class, or e-mail me your top three preferences any time after class today. • Put the three in your order of preference. • Provide three options, not one or two.

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