January 19th, 2026

Okay os this class wasn’t much as it was mostly about how to go about writing our papers. We did start with our participation quiz. We were given the questions that would be on the quiz a few days prior. The reason for this is because these quizzes are supposed to be pop-quizzes, open book as well which helps. But because of the weirdness that has been going on regarding our lectures, as in we have sort of fallen behind schedule due to illness and lecture length so she has had to move things around a bit, we were told when the quiz would be and the questions. Thus this particular quiz was not open book, which is fine obviously. There were three questions we had to answer and I think I nailed it overall. I know we get two mulligan quizzes, as in she will drop the two lowest marks before she tallies up our final grade for the course. So thats cool.

After the his we finished off the Nogarola discussion, not much was said here except people talking about what she said in her essay on Eve, and proceeded into the essay workshop. We were supposed to end the lecture with an introduction into WWI but we didn’t end up getting to that.

We have two papers for this class and the first one is due on February 2nd, although this one is not even a real paper. What I mean by that is this first project is just to get a sense of what a humanities paper is supposed to look like. We have to choose a piece of paper we have read/watched for the first 2 units of class we went over and the write a proper introduction paragraph, with a topic and thesis, with bullet point body paragraphs. This paper is literally called a “starter” in the syllabus. The body paragraphs are not fully done and are only supposed to list textual pieces of evidence alongside a sentence describing how it relates to our thesis. No outside research is permitted as we are only supposed to use a singular in class text, plus the lecture material. I will not go into further detail as I am sure most of you are uninterested in this.

It was helpful to me as I have experience writing History and PoliSci papers but not Humanities (although History is part of the Humanities department). For my starter paper I can write about the first three chapter of Genesis, The Return of the Soldier, or the All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) movie. We are currently reading The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, who was a suffragette and a socialist, apparently. So far we have completed the first two chapters. Have any of you read this book before?