Humanities MLA

20 and 21 century humanities

Ch. 36 discussion – Gender Equality
Marisabel Irizarry
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EXPLORE:

After reading chapter 36 (pages 463-474), explore the learning materials for the chapter found here.
DO THIS:

PART 1:

Pick one work of literature OR one work of art from the chapter that you really like and explain how it deals with issues of gender. Make sure that your answer contains the following:
Facts about the writer/artist and the work of art/literature.
Use information from the textbook.
You must use additional information from the learning materials for the chapter  in order to go beyond the information from your book. Find more information in these resources (or others you find on your own) and include them in your analysis.
Clearly list or mention which additional resource or resources you used in your analysis.
Your interpretation of the work of literature or art based on the information you found.
PART 2:

Respond to one classmate in a minimum 50 word post. Your response must be thoughtful and must demonstrate that you read and thought about your classmate’s post.

FORMAT:

Write in your own words. Copying text from any source is plagiarism and is unacceptable.
Watch this video so you can understand how to paraphrase and NOT plagiarize.
Write in complete sentences using correct grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation. This is a college class and formal college writing is expected.
Here’s a link to videos that can help solve any grammar problem.
Write at least 150 words in your original post to answer the questions. Postings less than 150 words will automatically receive a grade of 0.
Do not recopy the questions you’re answering in your discussion post. The questions cannot count towards the word count you need to write. You can only count the words you wrote.
Include a word count at the end of your original post AND your response post.
Click there for directions on how to do a word count in MS Word.
If you use citations (they are optional), they must be in MLA format and cannot count towards the 150 word count. You can only count the words you wrote.
Click here for videos to help you with MLA citations.
Follow these directions to post a picture in your discussion. (Links to an external site.)
Follow these Step-By-Step instructions for creating an original post and replying to other students (Links to an external site.).
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RUBRIC AND GRADING:

Post and response were posted correctly and followed the format explained above.
Post thoroughly answers all parts of the discussion topic.
Answers were written by student and are NOT plagiarized.
Wrote at least 150 words in the original post and 50 words in the response.
Included word counts for both original post and response.
Used correct grammar and sentence structure.
Any optional citations are in correct MLA style.