Due Tuesday and Doll's House in-class assignment

On Monday, 2/22, you will be writing your first open ended essay. Make sure to review all character names, plot references, author names, and MOWAAWs

For Tuesday, 2/23, you will need to have all of A Raisin in the Sun read. It is in your red book.

If you missed the Doll's house in-class brainstorm activity, it is printed for you below. You only need to complete the activity for ONE of the prompts.

Frequently in literature, the audience is given information that is lacking to some or all other characters. Choose a work in which the audience knows a secret about a character, consider the consequences of the audience knowing this information, and analyze its importance to the meaning of the work as a whole.

1. The audience knows that Nora has taken out an illegal loan to save her husband’s life.
2. Brainstorm: What are the consequences? What is interesting about this? Are there any ironies present? What insights does this give us? What inferences can we make? What connections can we make? What parallels does this create? What literary techniques will this allow me to discuss? What other plot references will this allow me to discuss?
3. How does this connect analytically to the MOWAAW? (make a causality statement)

Frequently in literature, the author uses a character that contrasts with a main characters in their actions, attitudes, or experiences. Select a work that contains such a character, consider the significance of this contrast, and analyze its importance to the meaning of the work as a whole.

1. Kristine Linde’s life and background contrast with that of Nora because she is single, has no family, and needs to work outside the home.
2. Brainstorm: What are the consequences? What is interesting about this? Are there any ironies present? What insights does this give us? What inferences can we make? What connections can we make? What parallels does this create? What literary techniques will this allow me to discuss? What other plot references will this allow me to discuss?
3. How does this connect analytically to the MOWAAW? (make a causality statement)

Due Monday and Tuesday

Due Monday:

Please write an introduction and one body paragraph on the prompt below using Tartuffe as the literary work. Please underline your use of "causality" statements to show your analytical connections.

Open Ended Prompt

Most literary works emphasize the actions and development of characters who are present during the majority of the literary work. Sometimes, however, it is the characters who are absent who nevertheless are a major influence on the work as a whole. Select a literary work where a character is rarely seen (or not seen at all) and write an essay in which you identify the absent character and explain his/her significance to the story. Do not merely summarize plot.

(Use the play Tartuffe to respond to this question)

Thinking process:

Identify a character who is ‘absent or rarely seen’. [the prompt topic]

Identify the significance of the story [a meaning of the work as a whole].

Connective thinking/Causality Statements: For what reason(s) is this character being absent important to the meaning of the work as a whole?

Note: Often with Open Ended Essays, the answer to “for what reasons” will become your POA. Your POA will rarely be literary devices.

Due Tuesday

Read Act I of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House which is in your red book right after Tartuffe. For Act I, your note topics should be foil characters, gender identity, and social expectations.