Beneatha to Asagai:
“That was what one person could do for another, fix him up- so up the problem, make him alright again. That was the most marvelous thing in the world… I wanted to do that” (132).
[Note that Walter is in the bedroom listening to the whole thing].
Asagai: e.g. Realists and Idealists: “life is like a line not a circle” (134).
Beneatha to Walter: “I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world” (137).
Walter: “Takers and Tooken” (141).
Mama to Walter: “ain’t nobody in my family never let nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of tellin’ us we wasn’t fit to walk the earth” (142).
Mama to Beneatha: “There’s always something left to love….Have you cried for that boy today?” (144)
Walter to Mr. Lindner: “We have decided to move into our house because my father—my father—he earned it” (147).
Assessment Criteria:
How well does the writing address the prompt?
How well does the writing present appropriate parts of the text to support or illustrate claims and interpretations?
Does the writing include appropriate direct quotations from the text? How well are the quotes introduced, cited, and explained?
How well does the writing exhibit critical thinking and active engagement with the text?
Does the writing express its ideas clearly and engagingly? Assess standards of grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
MLA Formatting and citations:
Formatting for titles (e.g. quotation marks for short story titles);
In-text parenthetical page citations;
Works Cited: For a document from a webpage (such as the text for “A Rose for Emily” that I have included here on our class page):
Author’s last name, First Name. “Title of Page or Document.” Title of Website, Name of Organization Affiliated with the Website, Date of copyright or date last modified/updated, URL. Accessed Day Month Year site was visited.
