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NO outside source is need to be used except for the ones I provided.
The paper is a 4 paragraph assignment which should be organized as follows:
1) One paragraph that overviews your initial thoughts/questions upon reading the text: multiple discussion questions, points, ideas (should be similar to the content of a discussion map). Do not simply summarize or offer your opinion of the text (like/dislike). You may focus on one text, or on multiple texts being read in the same week.
2) 2 paragraphs in which you select 1-2 major question(s) or line(s) of inquiry from class discussion to consider in more depth—you can/should briefly discuss what was said in class, but you should also go beyond simply repeating an account of the class discussion. Be prepared to offer more detailed insights/comments on the topic. For example, you might examine additional textual evidence or reconsider an interpretation offered in class. Expand, elaborate, question, challenge! Again, you can focus on one text, or on connections between multiple texts.
3) One final paragraph in which you consider whether and how your impressions of the text evolved AND the significance of the text during its own time period and now for contemporary readers (or its insignificance, as the case may be). You can also consider issues for further study—what else might someone want to research/consider /ask about in this text? What questions/conflicts does it demonstrate? What does it tell us about the cultural moment in which it was produced?
***From J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
Read ONLY Letter II para. 23-25 & Lettter III para. 49-61 and 67-80
***FROMOlaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, written by himself.
READ ONLY Bio and Vol I Chapters 1 (pgs 1-33), 2 (pgs 45-6, 59-end), 3 (pgs 93-103), 4 (pgs 171-79), 5 (202-10) and Vol. II Ch 7 (pgs 11-21). (Link includes bio, full text linked at bottom of bio page)
***FROM Phillis Wheatley, selected poems
Read ONLY Preface, poems: “To the University of Cambridge in New England”; “On Being brought from Africa”; “On the death of a young lady five years of age”; “On Imagination”; “To S.M., a young African Painter, on seeing his Works”; “To his Excellency General Washington”
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