The Ghosts of Long Day's Journey Into Night

English 3319 students:

For our Monday, November 1st, blog, during class time (1:00-1:50 p.m.), please publish a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about this Halloween-related prompt:

What are the haunting and haunted aspects of the end of Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill, from 2:35:00 to the end, 2:50:00 (the last fifteen minutes of the play).

Here is the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hncUJiK2Zsg

After you publish your comment, please comment in at least one well-developed paragraph to one of the other students' comments.

If you have any trouble publishing your comment, which you should compose in Word or an email and then copy and paste it into the comment box, please email me it to me so that I can publish it on your behalf.

Thank you,
Dr. Kornasky

Video of Long Day's Journey Into Night

English 3319 students:

For our Monday, October 25, blog, we are going to do the same thing as last week: take a break from a written assignment and, instead, watch a video of a renowned production of this week's play: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, linked below. 

Like last week, you do not have to publish any comments. Please just enjoy a celebrated production of a great Modernist drama, starring some of the best actors from the era of the play (the middle of the 20th Century).

The running time for the entire play is two hours and fifty minutes.

Here is the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hncUJiK2Zsg

Thank you,
Dr. Kornasky

Video of Death of a Salesman

        

English 3319 students:

For our Monday, October 18, blog, please take a break from our usual blog writing assignment and just watch the video of the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, linked below. You do not have to publish any comments. Just enjoy this celebrated production of this great drama

The running time for the entire play is about two hours. This light duty provides you with a needed reading break at the midpoint of the semester.

Here is the YouTube link for the play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMqiCtq5VLs

Thank you,
Dr. Kornasky

In-Person Class on Monday, October 11

 English 3319 students:

We do not have a blog assignment this week, and we will meet in our classroom on Monday, October 11, instead. If you have any questions about the midterm exam on Wednesday and Friday of this week, please ask them in class tomorrow.

See you tomorrow,

Dr. Kornasky

Janie's Quest to Find Her Voice

English 3319 students: 

During your 50-minutes class time (1:00-1:50 p.m.) on Monday, October 4, please publish a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about this topic: 

First of all, please read "Zora Neale Hurston: 'A Negro Way of Saying,'" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the afterword essay at the end our edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God on pp. 195-205. In this essay, Gates emphasizes Hurston's concern with the necessity and beauty of finding one's true voice. (If you do not have this afterword essay in your book, here is a link to its original publication inThe New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/21/books/a-negro-way-of-saying.html.)

In your comment, discuss how the search for an authentic voice guides Janie Crawford, the novel's protagonist, in chapters 1-4, pp. 1-33. 

After you publish your two-paragraph comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

As we have discussed, you should compose your comment and reply paragraphs in a separate Word document or in an email to yourself so that you would not have to rewrite them in case you have a technical glitch when you try to publish them. If you have trouble publishing them at first, just copy and paste them into the comment and reply boxes a second (and even a third) time until they are successfully published. 

This glitch usually happens when a student is not logged into a Google account (gmail) when he or she tries to submit the comment or reply. To avoid that possibility, be sure to log in first. However, this glitch also sometimes happens even when a student is logged in, so, to avoid being frustrated in either case, you should compose your comment and reply in a Word document or an email to yourself. If you cannot submit your comment and reply after a few attempts, please email them to me to publish on your behalf: linda.kornasky@angelo.edu. 

Reminder: In class on Wednesday and Friday, October 6 and 8, we will discuss the rest of Their Eyes Were Watching God.  Please be sure to bring it with your print book to class on those days.

Thank you, 

Dr. Kornasky