Choose four of the stories below: “Black Box” (Egan) “Job History” (Proulx) “Goo

Choose four of the stories below:
“Black Box” (Egan)
“Job History” (Proulx)
“Gooseberries” (Chekov)
“Wildwood” (Diaz)
“Love Medicine” (Erdrich)
“Ballad of the Landlord” (Hughes)
“Sonny’s Blues” (Baldwin)
“Everything That Rises Must Converge” (O’Connor)
“Story of an Hour” (Chopin)
“A Jury of Her Peers” (Glaspell)
“The Things They Carried” (O’Brien)
“A Conversation With My Father” (Paley)
“The Lesson” (Bambara)
“Interesting Facts” (Johnson)
PROMPT
For each story address the following:
Explain the story’s main conflict
Explain how the setting connects to the conflict and/or theme
Explain a major theme in the story
REQUIREMENTS
Your response to each question should include 1-2 quotations from each reading.
Include in-text citations for each quotation in MLA style.
Your submission should be in formal essay format: Introduction, body, conclusion. For information on essay format and organizing your ideas, visit:
Basic Essay and Paragraph Format
Essay Structure
Basic Essay Structure
All reading responses should be 3-4 typed, double-spaced pages.
You will be graded on critical thinking, support, clarity/organization, language and MLA style (see Reading Response rubric for details).
MLA Style: ALL assignments must be submitted in proper MLA form, including in-text citations and a Works Cited page. For help with MLA style guidelines, visit the Purdue OWL website and search for MLA: Purdue Online Writing Center (OWL).
Formal Language and Tone: Your paper must be written in 3rd person, present tense, formal tone. Do not use first person (we, us, our) or second person (you, your, you’re), or “one” (one = you; who/what is “one”?). Unless a professor specifies otherwise, college-level papers should always be written in 3rd person, present tense, formal tone. For help with this, visit: Avoiding Second Person