This document contains the agenda for an EWRT 1C class. It discusses essay assignment #2, which asks students to analyze and interpret one of the stories read in class in a 4-7 page thesis-driven essay. It provides potential stories to analyze and ways for students to proceed with the assignment. It also previews a review for exam #2 and the exam topics. The final section outlines the exam, which contains 5 short answer sections testing knowledge of the authors, characters, and terms from stories discussed in class.

1. EWRT 1C Class 31

2. AGENDA
• Essay #2: Questions
• Review for Exam #2

3. Essay #2: Questions?
The Writing Assignment
In a thesis driven essay of 4-7 pages, analyze one or more aspects of one
of the stories we have read this quarter. Aim to convince readers that
your interpretation adds to the conversation among those who read
stories and write about them. Back up your analysis with reasons and
support from the story. Use the critical strategies or lenses that we have
practiced this quarter.
 “Araby” by James Joyce
 “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
 “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez
 “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King
 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

4. Ways To Proceed

5. Ways To Proceed

6. Ways To Proceed

7. Exam #3

8. Exam #2 50 points
Class 36
 “Araby” by James Joyce
 “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
 “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García
Márquez
 “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen
King
 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Class Presentations: 22-29

9. Name the work and the author
Section 1: : 2x5 points =10
Use complete titles for works and complete names for authors.
• And hardly had the women left the room with the chest,
squeezing against it and groaning, than Gregor stuck his
head out from under the couch to see how he could feel his
way into the situation as considerately as possible.

10. Identify the writer
• Section 2: 2x5 points =10
• This writer’s fiction did not attract significant
attention outside literary circles until the
publication of his masterpiece, Cien años de
soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude,
1970).

11. Identify the character
• Section 3: 2x5 points=10
• "Some distant lamp or lighted window gleamed
below me. I was thankful that I could see so little.
All my senses seemed to desire to veil
themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip
from them, I pressed the palms of my hands
together until they trembled, murmuring: "O
love! O love!" many times."

12. Terms
• Section 4: 2x5 points = 10
_____________ refers to the
perspective from which the story
is told.

13. Long Answer
• Section 5 :
1x10=10
• Discuss the
role of
setting in any
one of the
works we
read in this
section.

14. HOMEWORK