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This assignment is for an OUTLINE, NOT an ESSAY. If you submit an essay, you will receive a zero.
For your mid-term essay, you will expand on your choice of Exit Ticket discussion board, assignments, or class discussions. You must evaluate any of our primary readings and use your choice of literary criticism (you can use just one or several) to support your thesis. This unit on choosing and narrowing papers may prove helpful.
This essay should rely ONLY on the materials provided in this course. No additional sources are permitted.
Your essay should focus on our readings and on the criticism we have studied. You must demonstrate the correct integration of source support in-text and in parenthetical citation, but no Works Cited page is required.
For this assignment, you will use the outline below to prepare to write your essay.
Basic Paper Outline
Download and complete the outline, then upload it using the Exit Ticket prompt. I have highlighted all the parts of the outline that you must demonstrate. If areas of the outline confuse you, review these skills in the English 101 Review unit. I have also embedded links in the outline itself. Your outline should plan for a five/six-page essay. An essay with an introduction, 5-6 body paragraphs, and a conclusion is usually about 5-6 pages. Your assignment should include:
an introduction
a working evaluative thesis
5-6 topic sentences for your body paragraphs
one completed body paragraph example
conclusion
Due on Oct 31, 2024 11:59 PM
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Rubric Name: E8: Assignment: Outlining the 201 Mid-Term Essay Rubric
Criteria
Complete
100 points
Incomplete
0 points
Criterion Score
Criterion 1
Your assignment is an OUTLINE, NOT an ESSAY.
Your assignment was an ESSAY, NOT an OUTLINE.
Score of Criterion 1,/ 100
Criterion 2
Your mid-term essay expanded on your choice of Exit Ticket discussion boards, assignments, or class discussions. You evaluated primary readings and used your choice of literary criticism to support your thesis.
Your essay should rely ONLY on the materials provided in this course. Your essay focused on our readings and on the criticism we have studied.
Your mid-term essay did not expand on your choice of Exit Ticket discussion boards, assignments, or class discussions. You did not evaluate primary readings and use your choice of literary criticism to support your thesis. Your essay relied on materials outside this course. You used additional sources. Your essay did not focus on our readings or the criticism we have studied.
Score of Criterion 2,/ 100
Criterion 3
You demonstrated the correct integration of source support in-text and in parenthetical citations.
You did not demonstrate the correct integration of source support in-text and in parenthetical citations.
Score of Criterion 3,/ 100
New Criterion
You used the basic paper outline to prepare to write your essay. You downloaded and completed the outline, then uploaded it using the Exit Ticket prompt. You completed all the highlighted requirements.

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Choose the following topic and write a solid, coherent 750 – 1000 word essay following MLA guidelines for in-text citations and a Works Cited entry. Search all of the authors we have covered in this course, collecting as many examples as possible relevant to the topic. From the examples, formulate a thesis which you state clearly in the introduction to the essay. The ideas in this essay should be well supported with examples from appropriate texts. Students should use the primary works we have read and course notes to write this essay.
Essay must contain
Seven direct quotations from works which have been studied in this course
Appropriate MLA format for spacing, Works Cited, and in-text citations (See Sample Paper)

Topic:
American Literature is a humanities course. One of the purposes of humanities courses is to help us discover what it is to be human. In literature courses we get to see reflections of our own experience and get to vicariously experience what it is to be someone other than ourselves. Think back over the semester and choose one to three piece(s) of literature that spoke to you in a special way(s). Perhaps the work(s) reflected your own experience or the experience of someone you know or gave you a new perspective through which to view your own experience. Perhaps the work opened your eyes to the experience of someone other than yourself, causing you to feel compassion for someone else or another group of people. Perhaps the beauty of the author’s language spoke to you and caused a gut-wrenching reaction or brought tears to your eyes. Write an essay discussing the work(s) you chose and why the work(s) had the effect(s) it had on you.

Essay Organization
Your paper should have four parts: (See the sample paper for the format info.)
1.     Introduction with a statement of topic–thesis that is clear, explicit, limited.
2.   Body: Argument: give and discuss relevant evidence; support or explicate your thesis with textual support from the work itself (primary text).
3.   Conclusion: Arrive at a conclusion—not simply a restatement—a statement resulting from the evidence.
4.   Works Cited Page listing the primary sources. Use alphabetical order per MLA.

Read story “An Old Nun Tells Her Story” by Geyang
Read essay by Orhan Pamuk “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist” and the essay by James Wood “The Limits of Not Quite”
Write 250-word response essay 7 responding to the Geyang story and Pamuk and Wood essays; submit to Canvas by 5:00pm, Monday October 28.

Students will create a photo project and a 2-page-long typed reflection on their project. Responses must be in MLA format.
Purpose:
Explore through photos and writing how culture, art, and ideas of the U.S. are represented through your daily life.
Instructions:
Using the literary, visual, performing, and culinary arts that we have learned/explored so far, document versions of these pertaining to your personal daily life.
Use at least 1/2 page for each category. (Literary, Visual, Performing, Culinary)
Reflect on the photos and in your paper, write how these connect to the material in class. Talk about your experience and why you chose to document these specific instances.
Students are to submit their assignment by Oct. 13th, 11:59 p.m. using the submission link on this page.
Use citations and supporting evidence from texts/videos in your Modules when necessary.
Include at least 4 photos, at least one for each category. (Literary, Visual, Performing, Culinary) These are not included in the page length.
MLA Format Review Purdue WebpageLinks to an external site.
Tips for your submission:
Review our modules for inspiration. Make a scratch note of what you can include.
Although personal, and will only be viewed by your professor, Miss Layla, please keep it appropriate.
Remember, we are trying to explore the culture, ideas, and art of the U.S. What we do in our daily lives, is more artful than we notice.
In your paper, make sure you connect to the material.
You can submit a PDF, a Word document, a slideshow, a PowerPoint, etc.

You are required to write a paragraph on ONE of the following topics for your first assignment:
2. Describe a place you have visited, are willing, or wish to visit. Focus on the advantages, services, landscape, aura, and attractions of that particular place, such as a city, mall, restaurant, tourist destination, or even a home. If you choose this topic, you must illustrate it.
Whether you choose topic 1 or 2, please abide by the following instructions:
a. Underline the main idea – 1 mark
b. The word range should be between 180 – 200 words – 1 mark
c. The format is a paragraph and not an essay – 1 mark
d. Be precise with your choice of words and sentence construction – 3 marks
e. Be creative in describing a person or a place, the more creativity the higher your mark is – 3 marks
f. Give your paragraph a title if you choose Topic 1 – 1 mark
g. Illustrate if you choose Topic 2 – 1 mark (no title is needed)

“The Story of an Hour”
8th edition – p. 555-557
9th edition – starting on p. 542
Discussion Board: Chopin Response
INSTRUCTIONS: Please answer the following prompt in a 2 -3 paragraph discussion board response.
PROMPT: Write a short analytical response to the text. Think about the following questions as you write:
How does “The Story of an Hour” display feminist critiques of the institution of marriage?
What do you think Chopin is saying about larger social structures or the relationship between the genders through this text?
Why is the ending considered dramatic irony?
*This will be graded for thoughtful completion.

Activity 2: Eye of the Storm Discussion Questions
The link for the “Eye of the Storm” documentary is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gi2T0ZdKVcLinks to an external site.
Below are the discussion questions for the Eye of the Storm documentary. See the Chapter 2 Outline on Canvas in the “Modules” section for the definitions of each concept. You must answer all three questions to receive full credit for the activity. Your replies to the discussion questions are DUE this Sunday before 11:59pm. Go ahead and reply to the discussion thread on Canvas under the “Discussions” tab and then click “Submit” once you are finished. Each answer only needs to be a paragraph or so. You will also need to reply to at least two of your fellow classmates commenting on: 1.) What you agreed with in their responses and 2.) Anything you may have disagreed with, thought about differently, or didn’t consider in your responses. You must post your answers before seeing other people’s responses. Your replies to your classmates are due the following Sunday before 11:59pm (see the Course Schedule in the Syllabus Section for specific due dates).
Discussion Questions
Using the concepts of self-concept and self-esteem find one example from the film The Eye of the Storm that illustrates how the eye color experiment affected the children’s self perception and/or performance for better or for worse. Explain briefly how it relates to their self-concept and self-esteem.
Reflected Appraisals refer to the ways we establish our self-concept based on the way we believe others perceive us. Using this concept, share a specific example from the documentary that demonstrates how the children experienced this phenomenon.
Find one example from the documentary of a superior social comparison and one example of an inferior social comparison. Explain briefly how each example represents the given concept.

Discussion 1
What types of people are most likely to abuse CNS depressants?
Suggest ways to help these people avoid abusing these drugs.