Genre Study: Choose one of the genres* we will be studying in the course (e.g., traditional literature, biography, poetry, informational texts, realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction). Read widely in that genre. Next, choose 5 picturebooks or 5 novels to analyze. Then, provide an introduction to the genre and a 1-2 page genre analysis for each book in which youevaluate the books in terms of the criteria of the genre. The chapters on your chosen genre in Literature and the Child (Cullinan, Galda, and Sipe, 2009) will help you with your analyses, as well as course lectures and other readings. Please provide a complete bibliographic citation for each book (including the guided reading level) you discuss as well as additional sources. Remember, the purpose is not to summarize the books, but to analyze them using evaluation criteria. How to choose your books: •    Consult recommendations from the Cullinan, Galda, and Sipe textbook, Common Core State Standard

The assignment was to pick a chapter from our textbook titled, "Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture" by John Storey and write the essay based on the information in the chapter as well as a minimum of 3 scholarly outside sources. Formal Essay: Thesis driven essay comprised of one rough draft and a significantly revised final draft. Emphasis will be on content (clearly formulated thesis, organized body which supports it, and a conclusion which summarizes briefly and points to further thought on the subject) and form (MLA format). Draft: Initial essay that will become your final essay after revision. It should be full length and include at the very least an introduction, working thesis, and supported points with some elaboration in the form of paragraphs, and a tentative conclusion.

Write an introduction for both stories (mention story and author's name; brief summary). Identify and analyze the conflicts in the stories. Identify the external and internal conflicts if both exist (see lecture on conflict). Analyze characters. Describe main characters and explain if character is static or dynamic. If character is static, explain what insight he/she fails to gain. If dynamic, explain what insight character gains (see lecture on character). Analyze the settings. Explain whether the setting is specific or general and what about the setting contributes to the central idea or conflict in the story (see lecture on setting). Identify the points of view of the stories (first person, third person etc…) and explain how it is appropriate to the story. Compare and contrast the language in the stories. Identify any symbols or irony. Describe what is unique about the author's style of writing (see lecture on language). Compare and contrast the tone in the story. Identify w

Write a textual analysis "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (331) She put out her hand against the screen. She watched herself push the door slowly open as if she were safe back somewhere in the other doorway, watching this body and this head of long hair moving out into the sunlight where Arnold Friend waited. "My sweet little blue-eyed girl," he said, in a half-sung sign that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlight reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him, so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it. lysis on

1. Complete Sentences-no fragments or run on sentences 2. Spelling 3. Subject/verb agreement 4. Do not end a sentence with a preposition 5. Watch for pronoun antecedents 6. Avoid repetitive words and phrases 7. Do not use words such as got, a lot, or gotten 8. Do not begin a sentence with a conjunction 9. No first or second person. (No I, You, My, or we) 10. Supporting evidence from the book -------------------------------- This is what is required... Select a quotation from one of the characters in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and write an informative/explanatory essay that explains what the quotation reveals about the theme of honor in the book. State your thesis clearly and include at least three pieces of evidence to support it.

Essay on two short stories on recicatif by Toni morrison and The thing in the forest by A.S. Byatt