Due 11/30

Prose Prospectus Assignment:

You will need to choose 3 of the 4 passages you were given and complete a prose prospectus for each. The "frame" for the prose prospectus is printed below. The example of the analytical unit is available here.

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/Speculations 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. See example above

College Admissions/Scholarship Essay:

Make sure you have submitted your college admissions essay assignment by 12/3. Please include the prompt at the top of the passage.

Catch-up:

If you have fallen behind, this upcoming week is a great time to get caught up. So far in this unit we have read:

"Living Like Weasels"
"Once more to the Lake"
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
"The Short Happy Life of Francis MacComber"
"A Rose for Emily"