Feedback Opportunities
Feedback opportunities are ways that you can tell me what you think and demonstrate what you have been learning in our course. If you haven't been learning much, your feedback will be rather uninformed. If you have been following along with the syllabus and our class, you will want to incoporate the ideas from our class into your assignments.
You will have numerous short feeback opportunities through-out our class. But there will be two longer and more serious feedback opportunities in the form of a Midterm Paper and an Final Paper. On these, be sure you follow MLA style like you would in any English class on campus. Thanks!
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- Midterm Essay (2 choices)
If you are an English or Literature major, I encourage you to choose option one.
Option one: Research a novel or other literarty work that relates to biblical themes (such as Brown's The DaVinci Code)
and create a 5 to 7 page essay that evaluates the book or novel and how much (and how well) it was influenced by Biblical themes
and characters. Identify the ways that the author of the book has included allusions to biblical stories or idas that shape his own work.
Option Two: Develop a 5 to 7 page paper that explores the literary art of a specific book or story within the Bible.
Read the text of the book closely and drescibe the way the auther of the book uses literary methods to communicate the message
he develops.
- Final Essay
You will write a 6 to 10 page Character Analysis of an indivdual character in the Bible.
You are free to chose anyone in the scripture except for the following three: God (YHWH), Jesus of Gallile, and the Holy Spirit.
Look for character development and explain how that character develops or grows (or changes) throughout the story.
The reason I don't want to see you try to do God, or Jesus, or the Spirit of God is that it is too hard to do that well in such a
short paper. Entire books have been written on these, in fact, entire libraries of books, so I think you would want to limit yourself
to a character that doesn't require that your write an entire book to do well. Choose a character that you find interesting
but one that you can manage in a paper that is 6 to 10 pages in length. If you can't determine much of that individual's character from
the Biblical stories, then that would be a poor choice for you to choose. As in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, "You must
choose wisely."
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