One short essay (750-1000 words each). These should be more
formal essays, with an introductory paragraph that clearly states the thesis you will be arguing, a body of several paragraphs with passages that support the thesis, and a short conclusion. Feel free to use your discussion answers as a basis for these papers if you wish.
-Make sure that when you quote passages, you give page numbers or (if poems) line numbers. Because these papers are intended to give you a chance to show how you can construct an argument from analyzing a written text and prove it by referring to passages within that text, you do not need to use outside sources (although the introductions in the textbook or in the course website may be useful). If you find yourself using any sources besides the texts themselves, you must cite those sources appropriately using MLA style.
*Reading Assignments:
Boccaccio, Day 10 Story 10 (Vol. B pp. 649-56)
Chaucer, “Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” (Vol. B pp. 682-709)
“Humanism and the Rediscovery of the Classical Past” (Vol. C pp. 135-63)
Machiavelli (Vol. C pp. 183-91)
Ariosto (Vol. C pp. 193-204)
More, Book I (Vol. C pp. 207-28)