Writing Prompt
How does one represent identity?
Business Writing
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Essays
SEMESTER ONE
Victorian Unit
Considering the literature read in class, how does Victorian Literature teach us about life? Essay.
Do you have:
1. Intro/Body/Conclusion?
2. Lines quoted from the sources?
3. Minimal Use (if any) of be verbs and/or generic terms such as people, -body or -thing endings, non-commitals such as stuff, things, kind of, sort of, A is true, B is also true (wishy washy argumentation)
Modern Unit
1984 essay exam question
see Exam Essay Prep (http://demott.weebly.com/modern-world.html)
Romanticism Unit
Restoration and 18th Century Unit
Nonfiction: Speech or letter to the editor on Social Issue (Student choice)
Do you have:
1. a minimum of five sources of research
2. a minimum of five questions for interview
3. a target audience
4. the opposing viewpoint
5. a structure of the writing (speech or letter to the editor)
6. a minimum of two pages of text
SEMESTER TWO
Anglo Saxon Unit
Middle Ages Unit
Renaissance Unit
Considering the literature read in class, how does Victorian Literature teach us about life? Essay.
Do you have:
1. Intro/Body/Conclusion?
2. Lines quoted from the sources?
3. Minimal Use (if any) of be verbs and/or generic terms such as people, -body or -thing endings, non-commitals such as stuff, things, kind of, sort of, A is true, B is also true (wishy washy argumentation)
Modern Unit
1984 essay exam question
see Exam Essay Prep (http://demott.weebly.com/modern-world.html)
Romanticism Unit
Restoration and 18th Century Unit
Nonfiction: Speech or letter to the editor on Social Issue (Student choice)
Do you have:
1. a minimum of five sources of research
2. a minimum of five questions for interview
3. a target audience
4. the opposing viewpoint
5. a structure of the writing (speech or letter to the editor)
6. a minimum of two pages of text
SEMESTER TWO
Anglo Saxon Unit
Middle Ages Unit
Renaissance Unit
Week 1 Tests
Answer 2 questions (one from each set)
Set A
1. To what extent are Winston and MacBeth both characters who are manipulated? How does each character deal with the manipulation? Does one (or the other) make the right decisions? Why or why not?
2. How is setting (place and time) an importatnt element of both 1984 and MacBeth?
Set B
3. How was/wasn't Winston an ambitious character? How do personal traits affect the plot of the narrative?
4. Describe the ideology of MacBeth. How does it affect the plot of the narrative?
4. Describe the ideology of MacBeth. How does it affect the plot of the narrative?
Final Exam Essays
1. Compare how the characterization used in 1984, MacBeth and Hamlet support their themes. What overarching message is given in each piece of literature?
2. To what extent is the hero celebrated in the Anglo-Saxon period and satirized in the Restoration period?
3. Compare and contrast the views of death in the Romantic, Victorian and Modern periods.
2. To what extent is the hero celebrated in the Anglo-Saxon period and satirized in the Restoration period?
3. Compare and contrast the views of death in the Romantic, Victorian and Modern periods.