WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1 EUH 2011 Summer A: 2012 I.

DUE DATE A HARD COPY DUE IN CLASS, ON Wednesday, May 23; TURNITIN, BY NOON THE SAME DAY II. Preliminaries A. Writing/Organization 1. Pay attention to the rules of the 5-7 sentence, 3-part introduction: a. About three sentences of pure objective data - the what, when, where, the who (No opinions! No judgments! All pure undebatable fact!) b. Two or three sentences where you deal with the question itself that arises out of this data - THE QUESTION OF SO WHAT (Never forget the question you are being asked!) c. A final sentence that offers your answer to that question in 1, 2, 3, form - these are thesis elements. Try to keep them as single words. 2. Keep everything simple 3. Towards the object of simplicity, write shorter rather than longer sentences, avoid clauses and weak verbs (is, was) B. Form 1. Double space, dark print, pt 12 (or 14) font. 2. Cover sheet with a separate cover sheet for each question It should NOT include your name, but should include the following: a. The question you are answering; the word count, title if any. Please List both the Part and the specific option, including the question you are answering. Repeat this form for the second question. 3. Blank comment sheet at end of question; you do not have to have two comment sheets when answering two questions, but you must keep the question entirely separate. 4. Name page only at the very end. Only here, no where else in the paper should you identify yourself. 5. STAPLE all this together, upper left corner C. Original Work Make your work your own. Do not use ANY sources beyond the text itself, not even the introduction to the poem, certainly nothing from the web or jiffy readers.

III. THE QUESTIONS The assignment has TWO (2) parts; you must choose one from part one and one from part two A. PART ONE Choose one (1!) of the following questions that are based on class lectures. You must use class notes and NO OUTSIDE SOURCES. (500 - 700 words) Option 1. Analyze Greek religion. You might pay special attention to a) its form and content; b) the ways it offered new ways of understanding the world and/or c) how it reflects fundamental qualities about Greek culture. Option 2. Around 750 BC, a new culture emerged among Greek speakers. Analyze the specific phenomena that characterized this development. Option 3. In justifying the assertion of the superiority of Western Civilization, the course has introduced various innovations or inventions of the Greeks. Analyze these in sum or in part. You may also suggest why they might account for some empirical measure of superiority. Option 4. Discuss the issue of Greeks naming, individualizing, and personifying of things, phenomena or people. B. PART TWO C Choose one (1!) of the following question options based on your reading of The Iliad. (600 - 750 words) 1. Analyze family in the text 2. Analyze war in the text 3. Analyze females in the text 4. Analyze how does the following passage suggest PATTERNS or larger issues in The Iliad or in Greek Culture: Youve got the slowest nags - a handicap, Id say. Yet even if other teams are faster, look at their drivers: theres not a trick in their whips that you dont have at hand. So plan your attack, my friend, muster all your skills or let the prize slip by. Its skill, not brawn, that makes the finest woodsman. By skill, too, the captain holds his ship on course, scudding the winddark sea though rocked by gales . . .The average driver, leaving all to team and car, recklessly makes his turn, veering left and right, his pair swerving over the course he cant control them. But the cunning driver, even handling slower horses, always watches the post, turns it close, never loses the first chance to relax his reins and stretch his pair but he holds them tight till then, eyes on the leader. (Nestor to An-

tilochus, Book 23) 5. Analyze how does the following passage suggest PATTERNS or larger issues in The Iliad or in Greek Culture: With that he leapt from his chariot fully armed and hit the ground and Patroclus straight across, as soon as he saw him, leapt from his car too. As a pair of crook-clawed, hook-beaked vultures swoop to fight, screaming above some jagged rock-- so with their battle cries they rushed each other there. And Zeus the son of Cronus with Cronus twisting ways, filling with pity now to see the two great fighters, said to Hera, his sister and his wife, My cruel fate. . .my Sarpedon, the man I love the most, my own son-My heart is torn in two as I try to weight all this. Shall I pluck him up, now, while hes still alive and set him down in the rich great land of Lycia, far from the war at Troy and all its tears? Or beat him down at Patrocluss hands at last?