• Identify literary genres, major writers, and important schools of thought in American literature from the pre-colonial era to the end of the 18th century.
• Summarize, interpret, and analyze literary texts in relation to a specific argumentative thesis.
• Utilize and extend the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills developed in ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102.
• Identify the cultural factors that shaped American literature and define the common concerns and values of humanity as expressed through literature.
Why you make the choices you did here? (Why does your media project suit the original text? Who is its audience? What is its potential appeal?)
How does this change the source material? What is kept intact?
In what ways is the source text relevant–and not relevant–to us today?
How/why does your project critique and/or interpret the original primary text?
DETAILS
You will want to support your project with specific relevant details and/or quoted material from your chosen primary text.
Your attached commentary should be in the form of a minimum 450-word paper that follows MLA format conventions.
Ensure that your submission adheres to the standards of academic honesty and reflects your own original words, work, and ideas. Please ask if you have any questions about citation or academic honesty.
HELPFUL HINTS:
You do not need to do external secondary research for this assignment, nor do you need to bring any outside material into your response. This project is designed for you to demonstrate critical thinking and to explore the primary texts on your own.
(While I am aware that webpages exist with sample essays, “analyses,” and summaries, many of these are unreliable and/or misleading, and their influence is readily traced. If you do not feel confident about your ideas or ability to interpret the literature at hand, please reach out to me or our embedded librarians and let us help you rather than relying on using the ideas of others without attribution.)
Five points of extra credit on this assignment are available if you work with our Tutor.com tutors on this paper at least 48 hours before the assignment’s midnight deadline. Please indicate this in the text box when you submit the assignment and submit a screenshot or other proof of working with the tutors at least 48 hours prior to the deadline to earn these extra 5 points.
HELPFUL RESOURCES
A sample creative media product–Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice interpreted as a celebrity gossip magazine: img_1_1651486799608
A sample commentary paper: Sample Response Paper 1 commentary
Response paper grading rubric: Response Paper 1 Creative Project Rubric
Note: This activity may use a different grading rubric than what was used in past activities. Be sure to check the grading rubric before starting. Grateful acknowledgement is made to Dr. Richard Menke, on whose original prompt this prompt is based.
You do not have to do the first part about the audio and etc I’m going to create a movie premiere about the passage I sent to you by Mary Rowlandson “A narrative of the captivity. I just need the response paper ( you can disregard the 450 words for the paper) I also need the question that is listed for the paper need to be about. please do not use anything from other sources only from this passage please!!! I also sent an example of a response paper also
