Choose two of the following prompts and write discussion responses of at least 150 words each (for a total of 300+ words). Your discussion may include quotes for support, illustration, and development. Then at some point in the week, respond or comment in a thoughtful, respectful manner to one of your classmates posts with at least 85 words.

Week 2 Reading Response Discussion Forum

Emily Dickinson Poems

Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Craig Johnson, Why Study Literature?

Choose two of the following prompts and write discussion responses of at least 150 words each (for a total of 300+ words). Your discussion may include quotes for support, illustration, and development. Then at some point in the week, respond or comment in a thoughtful, respectful manner to one of your classmates posts with at least 85 words.

Discuss Dr. Craig Johnsons argument of why educated, involved, responsible citizens should study literature. What are some specific examples in our culture or society of his points (freedom of choice, moral responsibility, conflict between individual and society vaccinations and masks perhaps ?? . .. ) ?
Discuss some specific themes in the selected poems of Emily Dickinson (religious faith and practice, nature, death, etc.)
Discuss Ambrose Bierces clever and surprising narrative form in his Civil War story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge thats set in north Alabama.

Attached are the Emily Dickinson Poems

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