Final Exam:
1) Turn in your copy of The Stranger
2) You are to choose a story from those below with which you can demonstrate the skills we have been practicing in class this semester.
1) Turn in your copy of The Stranger
2) You are to choose a story from those below with which you can demonstrate the skills we have been practicing in class this semester.
I expect
completed essays to be about two pages long, accurate, well argued, and well
edited pieces of in-class writing.
IDENTITY
ESSAY:
Choose
one of the following four stories and write an analytical essay examining
issues of identity.
Your
essay should include textual evidence from the story.
You may
use notes, outside sources are NOT required, however your essay, should
indicate understanding of how conflict helps shape identity – an idea we have
explored extensively this semester.
“Riding Pants” by Bernard
Malamud: a story of conflict about dreams and identity between a son and his
father.
“Executive Order 9066” by Mitzi
Loftus: a personal essay by a Japanese-American woman about being a girl in
Hood River who was interned at the beginning of World War II.
“Witness, Secret and Not” by
Sherman Alexie: a “coming of age” short story.
“Home Cooking” by Elizabeth
Woody: a coming of age short story told by a girl on the Warm Springs
reservation
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