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TOPIC PROMPT: Using the details and ideas in the short story as a guide, argue for improvements to your own local community. Your goal is to develop your argument using quotes from the short story in

TOPIC PROMPT: Using the details and ideas in the short story as a guide, argue for improvements to your own local community.  Your goal is to develop your argument using quotes from the short story in support and convince your audience to make the improvement you desire within your local community.

In this Unit, we are continuing our literary exploration and adding an in-depth research component.  This time, instead of analyzing a short story based on how we relate to it (“Writing as Reflection”) or a poem based on the author’s desire to share information and experience (“Writing to Inform”), we’ll put a work of literature into a larger context of the literary community, “Writing for Community.” 

(I am not sure if this means my own local community but I currently reside in Atlanta, Ga)

Prewriting Requirements

Choose a short story from those listed 

  1. Charles W. Chesnutt “The Passing of Grandison (Textbook, Chapter 5)
  2. Margaret Atwood “Happy Endings”
  3. Stephen Crane “The Open Boat” (Textbook, Chapter 5)
  4. Guy De Maupassant “The Necklace”
  5. Philip K. Dick “The Eyes Have It”
  6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “His Last Bow”
  7. Alex Epstein “Cobalt Blue” and “Stepping in the Same River Twice”
  8. William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”
  9. Gabriel Garcia Marquez “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
  10. Susan Glaspell “A Jury of Her Peers”
  11. Nathaniel Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown”
  12. Shirley Jackson “The Lottery”
  13. Eudora Welty “A Worn Path”

Generate ideas based on the questions asked below and based on the research you will conduct for your Annotated Bibliography (due later in this unit).  Your thesis idea should be your unique perspective or critique of the literature within a larger literary scope.  Note that you’re prewriting to generate information by answering “what” questions.  When you draft, you’ll answer “why” and “how” questions to develop your argument.

What is the society like within this story?  How do these details work as the author’s commentary on society?

What are the political, social, economic, or religious ideas described within this story?  Why does this author choose to write about these ideas within this story?

What are the gender or family issues portrayed within this story?  Why is it significant that the author publishes this story at this time?

What are the characters’ perspectives of their reality or their mental states as the story progresses?  Why is this significant for the story or for the author’s time period?

In what way(s) is this story typical of its genre?  What are the typical settings, characters, or plots used from this genre?  How and why does the author conform to or deviate from the chosen archetypes or genre?

What symbols are used within this story?  Why is symbolism used within this story, and why are these particular symbols effective for the time period?

Drafting Requirements

TOPIC PROMPT:  Using the information generated through your examination of the short story think about the social critiques the author made within the short story.  Why or How does the author use the details within this story to…comment on [society or religion or politics or economics or gender or family or health/psychology or literary genre] at the time of publication?  Using the details and ideas in the short story as a guide, argue for improvements to your own local community.   Your goal is to develop your argument using quotes from the short story in support and convince your audience to make the improvement you desire within your local community.

Focus/Purpose:  to analyze a story for its argument and then develop your own argument to a primary audience of classmates and instructor in 700-825 words.

Format/Essay Conventions:  You are developing a persuasive or argument essay.

Content and Support/Elaboration:  Your essay must be 5+ paragraphs.  Each paragraph must include concrete details from the story.  Each body paragraph must also use the knowledge you’ve gained through your research-based tasks as support for your own persuasive ideas.  

Paragraph Organization:  Create complete paragraphs (topic, supporting details, transitions) organized as needed to support your literary-based argument.

Research RequirementsYou will only provide research in this unit for the research-based tasks assigned (ex. discussion topics and annotated bibliography) that help you learn about your topic.  Like your other essays this term, your only citations within the U3 Essay will be for the short story’s quotes, paraphrases, and summaries in the essay paragraphs and a full citation at the end of the essay.  You will use MLA format for these citations.Revising Requirements

Style:  Third person writing and college-level academic formality are expected.

MLA:  This essay must conform to 9th edition MLA standards.  This includes the heading, the page formatting, the in-text citations, and the full citation after the essay.

AI Limitations

You may use AI programs only in the following ways: 1) to see what content is provided to answer the “what” prewriting questions above [ex. identification information], but you must determine the validity of the information you receive; 2) to help you develop your essay’s outline once you answer the “why” and “how” questions for yourself; 3) to help proofread the final draft [ex. Grammarly and MS Word’s grammar- and spell-check features], and 4) to develop the full citation for your short story (ex. Easybib, Zotero)

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