Midterm Worksheet & Seminar #3

Worksheet & Seminar #3 - Week #6
Class Preparation & Participation for Midterm Literary Analysis Paper:
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/worksheet.htm

Worksheet (with copy to turn to Cora) and Seminar #3 = worth many points that will count as part of your Class Preparation & Participation grade (see ENG 104 SYLLABUS on Course Grading & relevant policies). Relevant Deadlines: See ENG 104 COURSE PLAN: Weeks #6 & #7.

Completing all parts of this Worksheet (A, B, C, D), as thoughtfully and thoroughly as possible, is designed to help you develop key ENG 104 course skills & competencies needed to succeed on the ENG 104 Midterm Literary Analysis Paper.

Worksheet & Seminar #3 DUE: Mon., Oct. 28, 2002.
Bring your completed Worksheet - with a 2nd copy to turn in to Cora - to class on Oct. 28, prepared to discuss your Worksheet and interpretations of your selected author & literary text, as well as listen to and discuss the views of other students in your Seminar group.

WORKSHEET

A. Identify your selected work of narrative fiction and its author--chosen from the literary works and authors that we have studied in ENG 104 during Weeks # -#5--by citing the primary source (i.e. give a complete, correct bibliographical entry in MLA "Works Cited" style)
Competency 10. Avoid plagiarism by using an acceptable academic style (e.g. MLA) to cite direct quotations, paraphrases (indirect quotations), and summaries taken from primary and secondary sources.
Examples:

Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Cask of Amontillado." [First published 1846.] Rpt. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 687-693.

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring, being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings. [Rev. ed. 1966.] Rpt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994.

B. Take Notes on Relevant "Context" information that helps explain where the author and work are coming from, and that seems significant to understanding and interpreting your selected work of narrative fiction. Be sure to distinguish direct quotations with quotation marks, and keep track of sources & page numbers (if applicable) for paraphrases and direct quotations.
Skill (c) applying literary terms and concepts, approaches and methods of analysis, and relevant background information, introduced in class and assignments;
Competency 4. Apply background information by and about authors--e.g. their lives, cultural identities, socio-economic circumstances, reputations, literary influences, creative practices--to the analysis and interpretation of their works of narrative fiction.]
Competency 3. Identify key characteristics of literary historical periods and movements (e.g. 19th-century literary Realism) influential in the development of narrative fiction; and illustrate these characteristics using representative literary works.
Competency 9. Select and interpret persuasive specific examples from primary works of narrative fiction, as well as from relevant secondary sources, in order to illustrate and support one's points.
Competency 10. Avoid plagiarism by using an acceptable academic style (e.g. MLA) to cite direct quotations, paraphrases (indirect quotations), and summaries taken from primary and secondary sources.

Background Information by and about the Author (e.g. about significant aspects/events of the author's life, cultural identity, socio-economic circumstances, etc.)
...And Cite Your Source/s (give bibliographical entry/ies in MLA "Works Cited" style).
Examples:

Charters, Ann. "Guy de Maupassant" [header note]. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 523.

Corday, Alina. “Master of Middle Earth.” Smithsonian 32.10 (Jan. 2002): 76 (6pp). Rpt. EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, 2002; Article No. 5749860.
Statements/literary criticism by the Author about narrative fiction (e.g. the author's own aesthetics, or theory of narrative fiction), her/his literary goals, influences, creative practices, and/or literary interpretations.
...And Cite Your Source/s (bibliographical entry/ies given in MLA "Works Cited" style).
Examples:

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration." [First published 1935.] Rpt. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 876-878.

Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale." [First published 1842.] Rpt. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 921-923.
Identify the Literary Period/Movement and its key characteristics--and/or the subgenre (if applicable) and its characteristics--relevant to understanding this work of narrative fiction. Then, explain and illustrate how your chosen work of narrative fiction demonstrates the selected characteristics of this literary period/movement/subgenre.
...And Cite Your Source/s (bibliographical entry/ies given in MLA "Works Cited" style).
Examples:

Agatucci, Cora (Professor of English, Humanities Dept., Central Oregon Community College). "Emergence of the Short Story: Literary Romanticism and Realism - Poe and Maupassant; Myth Lit. Theory." In-Class Presentation, English 104: Introduction to Literature - Fiction, Central Oregon Community College [Bend, OR], Fall 2002. Online Handout - Outline [accessed] 21 Oct. 2002: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/coursepack/shortstory.htm

Charters, Ann. "Appendix 2: A Brief History of the Short Story." The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 995-1002.

Sammons, Martha C. "A Better Country": The Worlds of Religious Fantasy and Science Fiction. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

C. Re-read, take notes, analyze your selected work of narrative fiction and its principal elements of fiction--theme, plot, character, point of view, setting--and interpret how theme and these other elements work together to shape the meaning and impact of the literary work. Be sure to distinguish direct quotations with quotation marks, and keep track of page numbers for paraphrases and direct quotations.
See Charters' questions (1018) to help you.
Skill (a): close reading of literary texts and annotating (i.e. taking notes on) significant passages in those texts;
Skill (b): describing and analyzing personal responses to literary texts;
Skill (e): formulating and explaining tentative interpretations and evaluations of literary works--drawing upon logical reasoning and specific examples from the works, as well as other relevant sources;
Competency 1. Define and illustrate principal literary elements of narrative fiction (e.g. plot, character, theme, point of view, setting, symbol, style), as well as significant variations within this genre (e.g. static vs. dynamic character, short story vs. novel), using well-selected examples from representative works.
Competency 2. Analyze relationships among selected elements of literary form and thematic content (e.g. setting and characterization, or symbol and theme) within a work of narrative fiction, to explain how these literary elements can interact to shape the meaning and impact of individual works of narrative fiction.
Competency 9. Select and interpret persuasive specific examples from primary works of narrative fiction, as well as from relevant secondary sources, in order to illustrate and support one's points.
Competency 10. Avoid plagiarism by using an acceptable academic style (e.g. MLA) to cite direct quotations, paraphrases (indirect quotations), and summaries taken from primary and secondary sources.

D. Read, listen, seriously consider, & take notes on others' literary criticism of your selected work and author. Be sure to distinguish direct quotations with quotation marks, and keep track of sources & page numbers (if applicable) for paraphrases and direct quotations.
Competency 5. Analyze others' literary criticism (e.g. commentaries of professional literary critics, interpretations of other ENG 104 students), and apply relevant critical opinions to one's own analysis and interpretation of narrative fiction.
Skill (d) identifying and investigating informational resources (e.g. library and internet sources) valuable to the study of narrative fiction;
Skill (f) actively participating in class discussions and small-group seminars--prepared to explain and illustrate one's own interpretations and questions, as well as to understand and respond to others' interpretations;
Skill (g) seriously considering, and evaluating the merits and limitations of, others' opinions and evidence--especially those different from one's own; and being willing to re-think one's own interpretations and evaluations of literary works as warranted;
Competency 9. Select and interpret persuasive specific examples from primary works of narrative fiction, as well as from relevant secondary sources, in order to illustrate and support one's points.
Competency 10. Avoid plagiarism by using an acceptable academic style (e.g. MLA) to cite direct quotations, paraphrases (indirect quotations), and summaries taken from primary and secondary sources.
...And Cite Your Source/s (bibliographical entry/ies given in MLA "Works Cited" style).
Examples:

Shippey, T. A. J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. London: HarperCollins, 2000; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

E. Next Step: Read Charters' advice on developing a thesis, her discussion of types of literary papers, & student examples in "Appendix 4: Writing About Short Stories" (1016-1034); [see also models for in-text parenthetical citation and Works Cited in the student example research-based essay, pp. 1037-1014.]
Skill (e): formulating and explaining tentative interpretations and evaluations of literary works--drawing upon logical reasoning and specific examples from the works, as well as other relevant sources;
Skill (c) applying literary terms and concepts, approaches and methods of analysis, and relevant background information, introduced in class and assignments;
Skill (h) adapting general academic writing skills to the special forms and requirements of writing successful literary criticism (i.e. literary analysis, interpretation, evaluation)
Competency 8. Demonstrate effective writing skills when communicating and supporting literary analysis, interpretation, and evaluation, in graded writing assignments.
Competency 9. Select and interpret persuasive specific examples from primary works of narrative fiction, as well as from relevant secondary sources, in order to illustrate and support one's points.
Competency 10. Avoid plagiarism by using an acceptable academic style (e.g. MLA) to cite direct quotations, paraphrases (indirect quotations), and summaries taken from primary and secondary sources.

Full directions & requirements for the Midterm Literary Analysis Paper will be given in class on Mon., Oct. 28 (Week #6).

See also Literary Analysis Paper [Midterm] - Week #7
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/midterm.htm
Using Sources Effectively - Week #6
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/usingsources.htm
Citing Sources Correctly (MLA Style) - Week #6
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/citingsources.htm

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