The work is on The epic Enkidu and Gilgamesh.
Skill-Building Activities are occasional activities designed to improve or refresh student skills in particular areas, including literary analysis, MLA documentation, and research. There are five activities during the quarter, though only the highest 4 grades count–
the lowest skill-building activity grade of the five will be dropped after Week 8.
This class offers periodic skill-building activities to help refresh or strengthen skills needed for success in English 201. One of these skills involves the ability to understand and identify basic literary elements in a text, analyze their significance, and write about them meaningfully and accurately in discussions, essays, and and exams.
For this week’s activity, begin by opening and reviewing the resource entitled “Guidelines for Reading and Understanding Literature,” linked in Week 1. Once you’ve read through the resource,
choose any
one of the six major literary elements to discuss (choose from plot, character, setting, point-of-view, images and symbols, or style and language)
, then
answer at least four of the bullet-points under your chosen element. (For example, if you choose “Character,” you’d go down to #2, Character, and here you’d answer any four of the six bullet points underneath that element).
Your answers should apply to this week’s literary work,
Gilgamesh
.
Your completed response should be
at least 300 words in length and fully address all content requirements. Research is not called for in this activity, but
if outside sources are used, they must be documented correctly in MLA format (quotations, in-text citations, and Works Cited entries).
