OXFORD TUTORIAL SERVICE
GBT EXTENSION ATRIUM
STUDY GUIDE
INDEX
1. Assignment Schedule
2. Required Essays (4)
3. Essay Guidelines
GUIDE # 1
GUIDE # 2
GUIDE # 3
GUIDE # 4
4. Great Books Glossary
5. Writing Component
Policies
6.
Review of Grammar & Terms
7. Ten
Ways to Start a Sentence
8. How to Read and Evaluate your Work
9. The
Difficulty of Writing Well
10.
Before You Submit Your Work
GBT1 Assignment Schedule First Semester
(For correspondence students in the extension
program.)
Week/Book/Section
1. The Iliad, Books
1-2
2. The Iliad,
Books 3-5
3. The Iliad, Books 6-9
4. The Iliad, Books 10-13
5. The Iliad, Books 14-18
6. The Iliad, Books 19-24
7. The Odyssey, Books 1-8
8. The Odyssey, Books 9-16
9. The Odyssey, Books
17-24
10. The Three Theban Plays, King
Oedipus, pp. 159-198
11. The Three Theban Plays, King Oedipus,
pp. 199-251
12. "
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" , Oedipus at Colonus, pp. 283-388
13. "
"
" , Antigone, pp. 59-96
14. The Three Theban Plays, Antigone,
pp. 97-128
15. The Oresteia, Agamemnon,
pp. 99-139
16. "
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pp. 140-173
END OF FIRST SEMESTER
GBT1 Assignment Schedule
Second Semester
Week/Book/Section
1. The Oresteia,
The Libation Bearers, pp. 173-227
2. "
" , The Eumenides, pp. 227-279
3. The Poetics, pp.
665-712
4. Gorgias, pp. 19-74
5. Gorgias, pp. 74-111
6. Gorgias, pp. 111-149
7. The Rise & Fall of Athens,
pp. 13-109
8. The Rise & Fall of Athens,
pp. 109-206
9. The Rise & Fall of Athens,
pp. 207-319
10. The Histories, Pt. 1, Book I;
11. The Histories, Pt. 2, Books II (50-53, 112-120); III
(37-87)
12. The Histories, Pt. 3, Books V (91-93, 105); VI (42-48,
56-72, 94-120)
13. The Histories, Pt. 4, Book VII
14. The Histories, Pt. 5, Books VIII; IX
15. The Last Days of Socrates, The
Euthyphro, pp. 7-27; The Apology, pp. 37-67
16. "
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" Crito, pp. 76-92; Phaedo,
pp. 109-191
END OF
SECOND SEMESTER
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Required Essays
GBT Extension students are required to write four essays during the year (two
per/semester).
GBT 1 Essay Topics:
1) Essay # 1- Iliad Narrative Essay: Book I or the Whole Iliad
(500-1000 words):
See the Essay
Guide # 1 for more information.
2) Essay # 2- Odyssey Expository Essay: What Made a Greek Hero?
(300-500 words):
See the Essay Guide # 2 for more information.
3) Essay # 3- Antigone Persuasive Essay: Was Antigone Right or
Wrong? (250-400 words):
See the Essay Guide # 3 for more information.
4) Essay # 4- Aeschylus Expository Essay: What Was Aeschylus'
Solution to the Cycle of Violence?
(300-500 words): See the Essay Guide # 4 for more information.
GBT 2 Essay
Topics
1) Essay #1- Thucydides Expository Essay: What Caused the Fall
of Athens?
Explain the causes that contributed to
the fall of Athens (300-500 words).
2) Essay # 2- Republic Persuasive Essay: Are Plato's Civic
Virtues Relevant?
Take a position in regard to the question of
whether Plato's virtues are needed or would be
helpful in our culture today (for or
against) and present your reasons as persuasively as
possible to someone who may
disagree with you (750-1000 words).
3) Essay # 3- Aeneid Expository Essay: Virgil's Use of Homer.
Make a literary comparison
of Virgil's Aeneid with Homer's Iliad and
Odyssey. Explain how Virgil made use of Homer's
two Greek epics in constructing his own
original, single Roman epic (500-750 words).
4) Essay # 4- Aristotle Persuasive Essay: Are the Nicomachean Ethics
Relevant? Take a
position in regard to the question of
whether Aristotle's ethical approach is needed or would
be helpful in our culture today (for or
against) and present your reasons as persuasively as
possible to someone who may disagree with
you (750-1000 words).
Essay Format Requirements:
1. Copy and paste all of your papers into email. File
attachments will not be accepted.
Send your essay in an email to Dr. Lund at nlund@oxfordtutorials.com In the
"Subject"
line of the email put your name, the class, and the number of the
essay, as follows:
To:
Dr.
Norm Lund
Subject: S. Wilson GBT2 Paper
1
2. Place a heading in the top corner of each essay, with your name,
the class, the number
of the essay, and the date, as follows:
Susan Wilson
GBT 2, Paper # 1
Oct. 18, 2008
3. Put your title at the top of the paper, in the center of the
page. Every essay must have a title.
Here are some examples:
a. Why Did Athens Fall?
b. Are Plato's Civic Virtues Needed Today?
c. Virgil's Use of Homer
d. Are Aristotle's Ethics Still Relevant?
4. The body of the paper should begin at the left margin and should be in block paragraph
form.
This means that you will not indent at the beginning of paragraphs, but
will instead be sure to
hit "enter" twice at the end of your paragraphs so that
a line is skipped between paragraphs.
Each paragraph should have at least three sentences.
5. The opening paragraph should state the main idea you wish to get across. The
middle paragraph(s)
should give your arguments and/or evidence. The conclusion
should briefly summarize the point(s)
which you have attempted to communicate.
6. Extensions on the due date will be given only for legitimate
emergencies such as severe illnesses.
Otherwise, late papers will not be accepted.
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