30% of your grade!
Based on a novel/play/poem
At least 8 pages
Due on the last day of class: December 2, 2011
Final Essay (30%)
 Brainstorming & thesis:
 Outline:
 Introduction:
 Body paragraphs:
 Conclusion:
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• At least 8 pages
• 200-250 words per page
• Double-spaced
• Times New Roman, size 12
• MLA style
•Page numbers
Discuss four major themes/issues in the
play/poem/novel (using many quotes).
1.
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
2.
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
3.
The Waste Land
4.
Beloved
Toni Morrison
5.
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
6.
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
7.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
8.
Trifles
Susan Glaspell
T. S. Eliot
Wharton
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assignment!
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Choose a novel/play/poem
Read it in Korean or English
Choose four themes/issues that you like in the story
Brainstorm
Create a thesis statement
Write an outline
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Brainstorming & Thesis statement
2. Outline
Based on Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author/book
Brainstorming
1.
Author and title: Toni Morrison Beloved
More information about the author
2. Themes: slavery, racism, murder, escape, death,
America, love
3. Characters: Sethe, Paul D, Beloved, Denver,
Schoolteacher, Stamp Paid, Baby Suggs
4. Setting: America in the 1850-1880s
* You can also use a mind map for your brainstorming
Thesis statement
 This essay will discuss four major themes in Toni
Morrison’s Beloved. The first theme to be covered will
be slavery. The second subject to be debated is death. I
will also give examples of escape. The essay will
conclude with an analysis of the meaning of love.
Introduction (> 1 page)
I. Introduction
A. Author: Toni Morrison
More information about the author’s life…
B. Year published: 1987
C. Why I chose this book: won the Pulitzer prize, Morrison’s
most famous text
D. (Copy thesis statement here)
This essay will discuss four major themes in Toni Morrison’s
Beloved. The first theme to be covered will be slavery. The
second subject to be debated is death. I will also give
examples of escape. The essay will conclude with an analysis
of the meaning of love.
Essay body (6 pages)
II. Essay body
A. First theme: slavery
1. Two examples
2. Two quotes
B. Second theme: death
1. Two examples
2. Two quotes
C. Third theme: escape
1. Two examples
2. Two quotes
D. Fourth theme: love
1. Two examples
2. Two quotes
Conclusion (> 1 page)
III. Conclusion
A. The most important theme/issue
B. What you liked about the text
C. What you learned from the text
D. Your favorite quote