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RATIONALE: The second semester of freshman English concentrates on reading and understanding literature. Your text will be an anthology (a collection) of short stories, poetry, and drama. You will be asked to analyze the readings for significance in your class discussions and writing. This exercise gives you an introduction to the ways you can arrive at understanding literature. Read Chapter 21 in Part V on pp. 634-646 of our textbook and pp. 97-101 in Quick Access titled “Writing about Literature.”
TECHNIQUE:
Your goal is to determine the author’s purpose through the characterization, theme, symbols, conflict, narrator, setting, or plot. These give clues as to the writer’s purpose.
The introduction should refer to the author and the title of the short story. You may give a short overview of the theme, but again, do not retell the story.
Your thesis will reveal your understanding of the point of the story.
They you will argue for that interpretation by presenting details from the story—characterization, theme, symbols, setting, or plot— that support that idea.
Do not use quotations; you should refer to details in the story in your own words.
Most importantly, DO NOT RETELL THE STORY or GIVE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR..
You are interpreting in order to determine the author’s thesis, not detailing what happens in the story to the professor. THE PROFESSOR HAS ALREADY READ THE STORY!
You may concentrate on one approach to make your point, characterization, for example, or you may combine any of the above techniques.
Stay in the third person; do not revert back to first or second person. When you are discussing the plot line, stay in the present tense. Pretent that you are a fly on the wall in the period of the story (1890’s, for example) watching the action develop.
This essay must total 750 words and have a minimum of grammar, mechanics and spelling errors (see the rubric).
Due on Monday, April 30, 2012.
GOALS:
In completing this assignment, you will be mastering the following District Course Learning Outcomes while also increasing your abilities in critical thinking and in the ability to express your points effectively in writing:
1: setting, theme, or symbolism in the story. analyze a text according to purpose, audience, and other rhetorical concerns.
5: formulate clear and concise thesis statement, main point, focus, or claim.
6: develop, evaluate, and use evidence to support a claim.
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