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Annotated Bib Rationale and Sample
Color Coded Sample
Rubric
Here is all of your supportive paperwork for the annotated bibliography, which is DUE on WEDNESDAY, 2/6.
Info Center Handout Annotated Bib Rationale and Sample Color Coded Sample Rubric
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Now that you have read A Streetcar Named Desire, we need to begin thinking about what you will write about. This is the initial outline for your research paper. Please ensure that you are ready to turn your complete outline in WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT MY DOOR ON THURSDAY, 1/31.
Tomorrow, FRIDAY, 1/25, we will work with THEME-Y DELICIOUSNESS and the first half of the play. Please ensure that you have generated a THEME-Y STATEMENT OF DELICIOUSNESS that is about DESIRE and the CONSEQUENCES of DESIRE. (these consequences can be about gender, wealth, power, but they must relate to the effects of DESIRE) To help, for the first four scenes in the play, consider the following: Scene i, ii:
Please ensure that you have read, Hollingsworth read not words on a page read, the short story, Yellow Wallpaper, by the time you arrive at my door on TUESDAY, 1/22. As you read, please note the following:
Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s famous story about the way social expectations of women entrap and destroy them is a study in symbolism and tone. As you read through the short story note, be prepared to annotate and discuss with the whole groups the following:
Happy reading, confusion, and thinking! Audio Versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYIBJ9YXDJk We will be having our test on Streetcar Named Desire on THURSDAY, 1/24. It will be formatted as follows:
1-10 Character Identification 11-24 True False 25-50 Multiple Choice Happy reading! Please ensure that you have read Kate Chopin's short story, Desiree's Baby by the time you arrive at my door on WEDNESDAY, 1/16. Please be prepared to generate a THEME-Y STATEMENTS OF DELICIOUSNESS, as well as textually supported and analytically considered bullet points, in relation to the points below.
Bio: how is Chopin’s life manifest in the story? what character is she? how is she present in the story? Historical: focus on the social expectation for women at the time. how does that expectation manifest? is Chopin for or against this social construct? Formalist: focus on the symbolic nature of Desiree’s name and the implications for each of the characters because of that symbolism Formalist: focus on juxtapositions of white and black and how foreshadow the ending of the story Feminist: how does the story highlight the social expectation that men can abscond responsibly for their actions while women must bare the burden of all responsibility? Feminist: is Desiree’s final action one of submission or defiance? Marxist: focus on the powerful (men) vs. the powerless (women). how is the struggle for freedom from the oppression of the powerful depicted? how does it end? Freudian: juxtapose the phallic masculinity of the house to the yanic femininity of the water We begin our formal discussion about literary theory in texts on MONDAY, 1/14. By the time you arrive at my door on that day, please ensure that you have read the biographical information provided here and Kate Chopin's very short story, The Story of an Hour, with specific attention to the following:
Bio: how is Chopin’s life manifest in the story? what character is she? how is she present in the story? Historical: focus on the social expectation for women at the time. how does that expectation manifest? is Chopin for or against this social construct? Formalist: focus on the symbolic nature of names (Mallard) and metonymy in nature (how the house/natural world reflects the main character) Formalist: focus on contradictions (oxymoron’s, antithesis) and how they function in characterization of the main character Feminist: trace the development of Mrs. Mallard over the course of the story. how does she move from traditional expectation of female behavior to empowered? Feminist: focus on the IRONY of the end of the story. how does that depict the reality of women? Marxist: focus on the powerful (men) vs. the powerless (women). how is the struggle for freedom from the oppression of the powerful depicted? how does it end? Freudian: juxtapose the occurrences associated with the yanic symbols of keyhole and staircase to those of the phallic umbrella You will be assigned ONE of these topics on which to lead discussion and write. Be prepared! Happy thinking! Please be reminded that your theory presentation will take place on FRIDAY, 1/11. It will count as a double quiz in the grade book, so please ensure that you have completed every required component.
Using your assigned fairy tale and your assigned literary theory, you must create a presentation that mimics what we reviewed for The Little Match Girl. Your presentation must include:
Also, please ensure that you have read ALL THREE of the fairy tales we will be discussing on presentation day. Rapunzel Snow White Rumpelstiltskin Sample Written with Color Coding To help you as we navigate through literary theory, please ensure that you are using the samples and question sheet as a reference point.
Samples for The Little Match Girl: Bio/Historical Formalist Psychological/Freudian Marxist/Sociological Feminist Literary Theory Question Template Attached is our schedule for our time with female American writers and the (big bad) research paper.
Please ensure that you aquire a copy of Tennessee Williams' play, Streetcar Named Desire, as we will be testing, before having any discussion, on TUESDAY, 1/23. Day One: 1/8 Day Two and Three: 1/9-1/10 Day Four: 1/11 Day Five:1/14 Day Six: 1/15 Day Seven: 1/16 Day Eight: 1/17 Day Nine: 1/22 Day Ten: 1/23 Day Eleven: 1/24 Day Twelve: 1/25 Day Thirteen: 1/28 Day Fourteen: 1/29 Day Fifteen-Sixteen: 1/30 Day Seventeen: 1/31 Day Eighteen-Twenty: 2/1-2/4-2/5 Day Twenty-One-Twenty-Two: 2/6-2/7-2/8 Day Twenty-Three-Twenty-Four: 2/11-2/12 Research Paper due WHEN YOU WALK IN THE DOOR ON WEDNESDAY, 2/13! Women Schedule Match Girl Text |
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