Thinking at Right Angles: ASSIGNMENTS
LIT 201-200
Sarah L. Dye
DUE: Next week at the beginning of class/7:00 PM Monday, March 10, 2008.
Use the attached “Thinking at Right Angles Form.” Handwrite your responses on it or type your responses on
the form for the two or three stories you have been assigned for this THEME exercise in “Thinking at Right Angles.”
Work with your assigned partner on this assignment!
NOTE: You may be assigned as many as three stories and at least two stories for each partnership. If you are
absent on 03/03/08, then you will be completing this assignment by yourself outside of class.
DO YOU RECEIVE ANY CREDIT FOR COMPLETING THIS ASSIGNMENT?
Yes – when you take the midterm test next week in class, you will receive 5 points for doing and submitting on time
ALL of the “Thinking at Right Angles” short story theme worksheets as assigned to you below.
Even if you have not been assigned a story, please feel free to do extras for any of the stories so
that we have a variety of these forms to share with each other during the midterm essay exam.
Remember there are as many interpretations of theme as there are members of our class!
ASSIGNED TO:
AUTHOR AND STORY ASSIGNED TO YOU
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1. Maria
Anderson, “Hands,” p. 16
2. Maria
Atwood, “Happy Endings,” p. 28
3. Vanessa
Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” p. 37
4. Jessica
Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” p. 75
5. Vanessa
Banks, “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat,” p. 68
6. Charlie
Cather, “Paul’s Case,” p. 117
7. Jennifer
Chopin, “The Story of an Hour,” p. 158
8. Amy
Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street,” p. 162
9. Vanessa
Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily,” p. 286
10. Colin
Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” p. 313
11. Jessica
Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants,” p. 350
12. Guillermo
Hurston, “Sweat,” p. 355
13. Guillermo
Jewett, “A White Herron,” p. 382
14. Guillermo
Joyce, “Araby,” p. 400
15. Charlie
Kincaid, “Girl,” p. 4779
16. Amy
Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” p. 493
17. Jared
Mansfield, “The Fly,” p. 506
18. Vanessa
Munro, “Miles City, Montana,” p.578
19. Jake
Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief,” p. 565
20. Charlie
O’Brien, “The Things They Carried,” p.608
21. Jake
O’Connor, “Good Country People,” p. 634
22. Brenda//Melissa
Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing,” p. 671
23. Brenda//Melissa
Silko, “Yellow Woman,” p. 722
24. Michelle
Tan, “Two Kinds,” p. 731
25. Jennifer
Updike, “A & P,” p. 783
26. Michelle
Walker, “Everyday Use,” p. 789
27. Colin
Welty, “A Worn Path,” p. 800
28. Colin
Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” p. 813
29. Amy
Erdrich, “The Red Convertible,” p. 277
30. Maria
Mason, “Shiloh,” p. 511
You are welcome to do any extra forms for stories other than those you have been specifically assigned above. They will
be helpful to your classmates for the Essay Exam question on THEME on the midterm test.
THINKING AT RIGHT ANGLES
LIT 201
Sarah L. Dye
Author and Title of the Assigned Short Story: _______________________________________________
(Do not forget the quotation marks around the story title.)
THEME:
NOTE: This theme must be stated in a complete sentence only.
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EVIDENCE:
(include page numbers)
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YOUR NAME: ____________________________________