Reflect on your previous speeches and self-reviews and consider your growth in effective speaking skills. In which one of the following areas do you feel as if you experienced the most growth? Provide specific ways in which you improved in this area.

• Introduction (gained audience’s attention).
• Conclusion (reinforced central idea).
• Strong eye contact and expressive voice.

Part 2: Respond to a Peer

Read a post by at least one of your peers and respond, making sure to extend the conversation by asking questions, offering rich ideas, or sharing personal connections.
Remember to answer each part of the question with a minimum of one paragraph that is 5-7 sentences with limited grammatical errors. Also, respond to at least one of your peers with one 5-7 sentence paragraph.
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*Directions for a complete post:
What is your “take-away” from reading and studying the book of Job? 
Consider the issues we covered and then write about one insight or “take-away” from Job. Your response should have a thesis statement that is developed using sources from Job, and any of the secondary literature: Harris, Newsom, Perdue, Wiesel, and Davison (“Not the Last Word on Job” presentation). Length 200-400 words. Comment substantively on two posts of classmates.

Issues in Job (You are not limited to these topics.)
What are the translation difficulties of Job’s response in 42:6 and how do they result in contradictory understandings of Job’s final words? How do you think Job has spoken rightly, or what is right (42:7)
Theodicy—Is God just? If God is all good, why do the innocent suffer? If God is all powerful, why doesn’t God prevent the suffering of the innocent” Are these issues resolved in the book of Job? Explain.
“There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil” (Job 1:1). According to the book of Job, what does it mean to be blameless, upright, to fear God and turn away from evil? Your answer should be based on the entire book of Job, not the first three chapters. Take into consideration all of the important elements in Job 42 (see presentation, “Not the Last Word on Job”)
The question of “disinterested piety”— What is disinterested piety? Is Job faithful only because God has richly blessed him? How did Job change between his first set of losses and the second set (loss of his children, health, and honor)?
Mixed genres. What is the relationship of the middle poetic dialogue to the didactic prose story that begins and ends the book?

Consider the Middle English works which you have read in the past few weeks. You will write a three to
five page, thesis-driven researched literary analysis on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte
d’Arthur, and/or The Canterbury Tales. You will carefully evaluate the themes, literary devices,
historical context, or other elements of your choice in the selected text(s). You will support your analysis
with textual evidence drawn from the selected work or works as well as TWO (2) peer-reviewed journal
articles which relate either to the text(s) you’re writing and/or the topic you’re exploring.
You may develop your own topic for your essay or choose from the sample prompts below.
Sample Prompt #2: In what ways does the relationship between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere in
Le Morte d’Arthur exemplify Medieval ideas of courtly love? Is the love affair between Lancelot and
Guinevere viewed as an acceptable form of love or as an immoral act?
Word Count: 1,000 – 1,500 words
Format: MLA
• 12-point Times New Roman Font
• Double-spaced
• 1” margin
• Works Cited page (Four works cited total, both texts and two journal articles)