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1. summer Reading Essay: Turnitin.com, due Monday, Sept 18, 9:00AM
Class ID: 16281811
Enrollment key: southsaxons
You must bring a hard copy to class on Monday, too.
How to Write a Creative Title for an Essay
2. Quiz
First three lines of Song of the Open Road
All names
Young Goodman Brown (PDF) Quiz
3. What point is Hawthorne making in the story Young Goodman Brown?
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Young Goodman Brown (PDF) Quiz
3. What point is Hawthorne making in the story Young Goodman Brown?
4. Scarlet Letter. Read pages 1-4 together
Homework: Read chapters 2, 3
Summer Reading Essay
To make sure that you all understand how to write a strong essay, today we will review a fairy tale and ask ourselves how an essay on that story might be written. As a group you will choose one Summer Reading Essay prompt and:
Write an opening sentence
Write a thesis
Write a topic sentence for one idea
Cite a specific example from the story (consider quoting it)
Write three sentences elaborating that idea
Write a concluding sentence for that paragraph
As you write, be sure to follow this basic rule of thumb for good writing:
"Good writing passionately addresses what it is to be a human being."
(As you are writing I will call you up to my desk to show me your annotations)
(As you are writing I will call you up to my desk to show me your annotations)
1. Write an essay that presents your interpretation of the novel’s main character (or characters) and discusses his or her motives. Include discussion about the choices and decisions the character makes which impact the pivotal events of the novel. Use specific textual evidence to support your analysis.
2. Write an essay that presents an argument about a major theme of the novel. How does the novel’s theme reflect meaningful values shared by human beings. Use specific textual evidence to support your argument.
3. Discuss the roles of men and women in the novel (and the interactions and relationships among them) and present an argument about what these roles reveal about the society reflected in the novel. Use specific textual evidence to support your argument.
4. Write an essay that explains how the novel is concerned with one of the following motifs: the gaining or losing of paradise, initiation, scapegoating, social class and mobility, a utopia/dystopia, a quest, rebirth or redemption, cultural barriers, baptism/floods, transformation, sacrifice, betrayal and revenge, search for identify, the conflict between good and evil, or parental roles. Use specific textual evidence to support your analysis.
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