-Please have your reading of Metamorphosis completed. (Text is in your book and available online if needed)
You should also be making progress on your prose prospectus for the "Phineas Redux" passage.
Prose Prospectus Frame:
Title and Author of Passage:
Approximate Era of Passage: Victorian, Modern, Contemporary, etc
New Vocabulary: Write down fancy new words from the passage and their definitions.
Answer to the prompt (as specific as possible) to serve as a thesis:
Proposed Outline of Essay Organization:
Devices you would mention in your essay: Remember, these do not have to be full paragraph topics, but just appropriate literary words that you could use in your essay.
Insights/Inferences/Interesting stuff that address the prompt:
Key Quotations for support You may either retype these quotations OR turn in a highlighted, underlined, copy of the text indicating which quotations you would use.
One Analytical Unit: This should be an excerpt from your essay that uses a targeted quotation(s) and says important stuff about it. Try to sound insightful, fancy, and make good inferences.
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