BBL 3406 (Analysing Poetry and Drama in English) (PJJ, 1/ ) 1) MAKLUMAT TUGASAN & UJIAN PERTENGAHAN 2) SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS (DRAMA SECTION) Prepared by Dr. Arbaayah Ali Termizi Line:

Course work distribution  2 Essays-40%  Mid semester exam-30%  Final exam-30% TOTAL-100%

Topics for Essays (40%) 1) Write an account of three poems which are linked by mood. These mood might be about love, fear, nature, sleep, or childhood experience. In what different ways do you find the writing conveys the nature of the experience? Note: You may write on any poem from your text, strictly with the exception of ones used for discussion and/or sample essays by the Editors. You are, however, encouraged to write on the core poems listed in the module

Topics for Essays (Cont’d) 2)Using Reader Response Criticism (read details in Kirszner and Mandell) write an essay which concentrates on the attributes of any ONE protagonist in your selected play. Use only one of the following plays* for this essay: William Shakespeare – Hamlet Sophocles – Oedipus Rex/Oedipus the King Tennessee Williams - The Glass Managerie * All these texts are in Kirszner and Mandell edition DUE DATE FOR BOTH ESSAYS: Week 12 (5 th December 2015)

General guidelines for Essay Essay is five to ten pages long (A4), font 12, Times New Roman, double spacing with proper margin and grammatically comprehensible. The essay must have an introduction, body and conclusion. Citation to references must follow the MLA format. The content of your existing module and textbook is useful for the purpose of this assignment but the use of other references is encouraged. Marks will be deducted if the essay does the following: – It exceeds ten pages – It is full of ridiculous grammatical errors. – It does not answer the question as specified. – It reaches the examiner long past the due date.

If you are not sure how to write the essays….  Please refer to Kirszner, L.G. & Mandell, S.R. (eds.). Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. 6 th ed. Boston: Thomson  Chapters: a) Chapter 24 – Reading and Writing about Poetry b) Chapter 38 – Reading and Writing about Drama

What to study for your mid semester exam (BBL3406) – 30%  Please refer to BBL3217 module (module for BBL3406 is still being prepared) on the page next to 63 for the list of poems for the course  Info on these poems is as prescribed in this module and extra reading should be from the actual reference which is from the Roberts and Jacobs edition (available in UPM library)  You need to know the definition of terms as well as details about the selected poems for your mid sem exam.  Definition of terms will cover from unit 1 to 13.  Details of the selected poems might require students to explicate the selected quotations from the poems. The selection of poems will only cover from no.1 to 7 in the list.  Notes from the given slides will also be useful for your mid semester exam

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS (DRAMA SECTION) The section on drama will be covered in the second half of the semester. For this section, you will need to rely mostly on: Kirszner, L.G. & Mandell, S.R. (eds.). Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. 6 th ed. Boston: Thomson Read the following chapters from the above textbook for the drama section:  Chapter 36-Understanding Drama  Chapter 38-Reading and Writing about Drama  Chapter 39-Plot  Chapter 40-Character  Chapter 41-Staging  Chapter 42-Theme Extra reading (references) 1)Roberts, Edgar V. and Henry E. Jacobs. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. 4 th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall )Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 9 th ed. New York: Pearson