Tuesday June 8, 2010

Due in class: critical lens introduction practice

Model for the above, based upon the handout The underlined words should be included.

As (insert the author’s name or write as someone once said if you do not know the author’s name) once said, “ (insert quote). In other words (this is where you paraphrase the quote.) Use words that are not part of the quote. You may write two to three sentences. This is supported in the (insert first genre: novel, autobiography, play, memoir, epic poem) (insert first title) by (insert author) and the (insert second genre) (insert second title) by (insert second author) through the literary elements of (choose two: character, plot, setting, theme, tone).

Paragraph 2- take one of your chosen literary elements (tone / theme, etc) and relate it specifically back to the quote through one of the pieces of literature you have chosed. Be detailed.

Paragraph 3- take the same literary element as used in paragraph 2 and now apply it specifically to the second piece of literature to which you referred in the introduction.

Paragraph 4- now move on to the second literary element and the first piece of chosen literature, again tying in the selection specifically as related to the critical lens quote.

Paragraph 5-Once again, tie in the second literary element you selected, only this this with the second piece of literature, with the critical lens.

Conclusion: Do not repeat the critical lens. Do not repeat whole titles of literature. Do not say "in conclusion". Begin here with essentially another paraphrasing of the critical lens (again, do not repeat the quote). The objective in the closing is to leave the reader with a reminder that through literature we experience or partake in the the ideas or words professed in the quote. This is a universal statement that should resonate and allow refection.



Material from which you may choose for your critical lens support. Make sure you are very familiar with three of the following literary works in terms of these aspects.

genre / title / author with their

characters /point of view/ setting/ themes/ tone / plot

novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey

novel The Great Gasby F. Scott Fitzgerald

novel Maggie, Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane

novel Black Boy Richard Wright

play Beyond the Horizon Eugene O'Neil

play The Crucible Arthur Miller

play Hamlet William Shakespeare

poem Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant

poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge

novel excerpts (just refer to them as novels, as if you read them in whole)

The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper

Moby Dick Herman Melville

short stories: The Minister's Black Veil and The Oval Portrail by Nathanial Hawthorne

The Fall of the House Usher by Edgar Allen Poe

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving.