HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Due Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 9:30 AM
The Birthmark (online text)
It is not required, but if you are so inspired, you may purchase an audio recording of The Birthmark online for $1.95: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&productID=BK_JIMC_000174
Due Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 9:30 AM
The Birthmark (online text)
Print out and read The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne: http://www.fibrotalk.com/fibrotalk-distraction-therapy/fibrotalk-book-club/the-birth-mark-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/
Bring the printed out copy with you to class on January 12th.
It is not required, but if you are so inspired, you may purchase an audio recording of The Birthmark online for $1.95: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&productID=BK_JIMC_000174
or purchase from iTunes for $0.99.
Write a First Response to The Birthmark. What was your first impression of Aylmer? of Georgiana? Did your impression of either or both of them change? If it did, why? how? Which aspect of the work affected you most? Why? What is the significance of the birthmark? Provide specific textual details and quotations from the story to justify and/or explain your response to The Birthmark.
Write a First Response to The Birthmark. What was your first impression of Aylmer? of Georgiana? Did your impression of either or both of them change? If it did, why? how? Which aspect of the work affected you most? Why? What is the significance of the birthmark? Provide specific textual details and quotations from the story to justify and/or explain your response to The Birthmark.
First Response Guidelines:
*8.5x11-inch paper
*1-inch margins
*typed, double-spaced, Cambria 12 font
*minimum one (1) page; maximum two (2) pages
Left-hand corner of the paper, single spaced:
FIRST AND LAST NAME
January 12, 2010
Professor Melinda Roberts
Short Story: Wintersession 2010
Centered Title (all caps and bolded):
RESPONSE PAPER: "THE BIRTHMARK"
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