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engl_406_final_essay_assignment_spring_2014.docxENGL 406 Final Essay: Spring 2014: DeAngelis
Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture
For your final assignment of the course, you are asked to choose one of the key concepts that we have discussed this semester to consider through TWO texts – one that we have read/discussed in class, and one of your own choosing. The second text, the one you choose on your own, can be another novel/play, poetry, theory, a movie, a song, a tv show – as long as it relates in a meaningful way to the class text, and as long as it too deals with some aspect of ethnic literature in American.
The formula is as follows:
Just kidding! The formula really is as follows:
Column A + Column B + Column C = Column D
(text from class) (text you choose) (concept from class) (your final essay!)
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Column D |
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Texts we have read in class |
Text of your own choosing |
Some of the concepts we have covered in this class include (but are not limited to) |
Your amazing final essay |
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The Melting Pot Passing Donald Duk The Woman Warrior The House on Mango Street March |
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The Melting Pot Assimilation Acculturation Passing Colorism The Talented Tenth The American Dream Frontierism Manifest Destiny Ethnic Stereotyping Dreams/memories/ghosts Gender Race Class Language (you may want to use a scholarly/theoretical article to help you with this part of the assignment) |
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Final essays are due TUESDAY JUNE 3rd at 1 pm (I will be in my office during our official exam time, 11-1 on that day to receive them). You may hand them in earlier to mailbox. Be sure to keep a copy of the essay.
6-8 pages, MLA format, works cited page
This assignment is worth 30% of your course grade.
