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American Literature: Friday, October 30

Filed under: All classes, American Literature — reedd at 5:38 am on Friday, October 30, 2009



Late Work Deadline for Quarter 1

  1. Editing your essay: “Be verbs” exercise.  This exercise will be turned in with your paper, along with peer review notes and drafts.
  2. Peer review on your essays.

Review of introduction material:

  1. Lead-in discussion (optional)—Some possibilities:
    1. Brief introduction to the book
    2. Brief assessment of how the book is often seen
    3. Brief discussion of lens
  2. Thesis statement—includes:
    1. The critical lens the paper will consider
    2. The author and title of the book
    3. A generalized perspective someone looking through that lens would apply to this text
  3. Supporting Points sentence:
    1. A sentence that presents at least 3 aspects of the book to which you will apply the lens.

Time permitting:

Happy Halloween!  Free write your own scary tale or on another topic while listening to Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”.

Homework

  1. Diversity Independent Reading Critical Lens Essay: Tuesday, November 3

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