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Projects
Here are the three group projects. There are no right/wrong answers to these debatable conversation prompts. Use what you have learned in the introductory material, your reading of the primary texts, and any suplemental material on the Norton site to help you craft a collaborative response to your chosen topic.
The groups working on #2, for instance, may be very interested in the Norton material on Buying and Burning Bibles. Those working on #3 may be helped by the headnotes to the account of the First Examination of Anne Askew or the Ballad of Anne Askew. Those working on #1 may find Michel Montaigne's--the so-called 'father' of the modern essay--Of Cannibals inspiring.
- In the style of Thomas More, write about a Utopian solution [serious or comic] for something you find wrong with our society.
- What do the four different translations of the 1 Corinthians 13 , found in our text, illustrate about what is at stake, ideologically? textually? culturally?
- Compare Anne Askew's examination with Margery Kempe's. What are the siilarities and differences in their responses to interrogation? What can you conclude about the rhetorical strategy each chooses?
Be sure to distribute work equitably. Stay on task. Communicate frequently with each other--you can use the discussion board on this site to keep a running dialogue going. By next week, I want each group to have a revised and thoughtful text to post to this web site. It should probably be at least 500 words, but probably should not exceed 1,000 for ease of viewing on the web.
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