[Milton-L] query

[Schwartz, Louis]

I always begin with the early poems, but I also always schedule a
marathon overnight reading of Paradise Lost the weekend before we begin
to deal with it in class.  I then expect my students to reread it in
section as we move through the text over the following five or six
weeks.

 

Louis

 

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Louis Schwartz

Associate Professor of English

University of Richmond

Richmond, VA  23173

(804) 289-8315

lschwart at richmond.edu

 

 

 

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[mailto:milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] On Behalf Of Judith Herz
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Subject: [Milton-L] query

 

Pedagogical question:

I'm thinking of trying something I've never done before in a semester
Milton course.  On the assumption that it's nearly impossible to read
Paradise Lost without already having read it, I thought I'd require that
they read quickly through the poem during the first month while we're
doing the early poetry and some prose and then a day or so after we
actually begin PL, I would give a quiz worth 15% to assure that they in
fact have done this.

I would very much like to hear any comments,  pros and/or cons about
this possibility.

This, by the way, would be in addition to the course requirements of a
weekly Reading Notebook (5-600 words, collected 3 times over the
semester) in which they respond to study questions, class discussions,
etc., and a term paper and final exam.

  

thanks in advance

Judith

 

 

Judith Scherer Herz
Professor 
Department of English
Concordia University
1455 deMaisonneuve Blvd., West
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3G 1M8

 

514-848-2424 (ext. 2360)
jherz at alcor.concordia.ca

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