Prose Outlines due Monday, 12/2

You will be completing TWO prose outline assignments and submitting them to Turnitin.  Please do things in the following order.

Please read this excerpt and think about it:  Middlemarch

Please look at the concept and example: Prose Outline Frame and Explanation

Please read these four passages:

Johnny

Belinda

The Street

Mayor

Then, complete a prose outline for TWO of them and submit it through Turnitin.

Prose passage for discussion

Prose Passage (Isabel)

Reading due Thurs/Fri

Please read the delightfully weird story "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor for Thursday/Friday and look for existential elements.

Reading due Tues/Weds

Please read the short short story "Araby" by James Joyce.

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS

Here are some examples of different devices and some analysis for your preparation for your poetry essay on Monday.  Please excuse any typos and try to focus your reading on noticing HOW the effect of each quotation is explained.

Due Thurs/Fri

Please make sure you have read the delightfully weird short story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (beginning on 258?) for Thursday/Friday.  You will definitely want to try to apply some of your Psychoanalytic Techniques to make sense of this one.

Also please make sure that you turn in a copy of your college admissions essay by Friday.

Short Story for Tues/Wed

Please make sure you have read "The Yellow Wallpaper" for Tuesday/Wednesday.  Your focus should be on characterization and what evidence you can use to support your characterization claims.

Homework for Thursday/Friday

Please read the essay "Once More to the Lake" by EB White in your lit books.  Then, make sure your books come with you to class for Thursday/Friday.