Change in plans, as so few students are in class today.
Below you will find detailed instructions for the Maggie essay.
You will write your selected essay on Maggie this upcoming Tuesday and Wednesday. This will be in class.
Anyone who has not turned in the graphic organizer, please note that it is late and will be down graded 20 points. You will need the graphic organizer to write the essay.
The vocabulary test, which was to take place on Monday, will now occur on Thursday, March 20
The marking period closes next Friday, March 21. The last two grades will be the vocabulary test and your essay.
In class today: you are in the computer lab. If you have yet to complete the survey, please do so. When you have finished you will receive bonus points from me; as well, you have the opportunity to wine a Kindle.
Here is the link: www.studentvp.com/rcsd Copy and paste into a new window.
ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS
Maggie, Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane essay directions
At this point, everyone should have committed to one of the
following four topics.
1.
What role does religion play in Maggie, Girl of
the Streets?
2.
Why is Maggie unable to survive in the
environment in which she was raised?
3.
To what extent is Maggie, Girl of the Streets a
realist novel?
4.
How do sociological and economic circumstances
influence Maggie and Jimmy?
General information:
1. MLA
heading
2. Minimum
500 words (approximately 3 handwritten pages of medium-sized script.
3. Supporting
text. Remember that you make a statement, prove it and then offer of an
analysis, which is saying why this particular piece of information is
significant in terms of contributing to your original thesis statement.
4. You
must have at an introduction with a clearly stated thesis / controlling idea.
5. You
must have a minimum of three body paragraphs, each with textual evidence.
6. Your
conclusion should not be a restatement of the introduction, but an insightful
observation or extension of the controlling idea. Possible scenarios include
historical, sociological, psychological connections.
7. Due
at the end of class on Wednesday.
Advice for individual topics.
1. Religion:
look at the specific characters; note hypocrisy
Look at religion of the gentility
and the mission church
2. Survival
in the environment: lots of concrete information; focus on imagery; think about
the people, places and society as a whole.
What do you know of Maggie’s character and how can you demonstrate this?
3. Maggie
as a realist novel: Consider use vernacular
language, who these characters are,
control of one’s destiny, complex ethics
4. Sociological
and economic circumstances: these ties
into the immigration movement. Make connections to Riis’ How the Other Half
Lives.
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