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Essay 1: Readings
In your text Literature for Composition (LIT)
INTRODUCTION
CLICK HERE for Close Reading
video!
REQUIRED: Read a total of THREE texts.
TEXT 1: Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper" p. 781
Theme: "Character" and "Plot"
Video writing help: Run
this video after you have read "The
Yellow Wall-paper" and it will guide you with some useful tips:
"The Yellow
Wall-paper" Writing Tips Video.
TEXT 2: "Cat in the Rain" p. 688
Writing help: Think of what the
cat in the story might
be a symbol for. This is arguable, since two readers might
differ.
Anything arguable is a good claim to defend in an essay.
Anything too obvious is not good to defend in an essay.
TEXT 3: "Time
Machine Excerpt"
WEB EXERCISE in ACTIVE READING: TIME MACHINE
Theme: "Imagery
and Tone."
Run the video on how to compare
texts. Question: Did H. G.
Wells borrow a symbol from another writer?
CLICK HERE for 'sphynx'
symbol in The Time Machine!
As you read (or reread) this
excerpt from Wells, think about
"descriptive" writing that uses vivid imagery and tone. The text
details the physical setting of the far future in this sequence from
The Time Machine.
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