Below you will find a copy of the Out of Class Essay Assignment #2 which was distributed and discussed last Friday, October 4th.
Also, a reminder: please arrive to class tomorrow with your topic chosen for Out of Class Essay #2.
And...bring your Rules of Thumb textbook, of course!
We will NOT have time, unfortunately, to discuss Montana 1948 tomorrow; however, please bring the novel to class on Wednesday and Friday.
English 1A, Fall 2013---C. Fraga
Date assigned: Friday, October 4
Rough draft (optional): due no later than Friday, October 18
Final draft due: Monday, October 28
*You have a little over three weeks
(which includes three weekends) to research, write, and edit this essay before
submitting.
Details:
1. MLA format; typed & double
spaced; Times New Roman font
2. At least 4 outside sources on your
Works Cited page
3. Please, no Wikipedia
4. No formulaic, 5 paragraph essay
5. Underline thesis statement
6. Everything you need to know about
how to document research in MLA format as well as how to conduct research can
be found in your Rules of Thumb
textbook. Of course, I will be going over MLA details in class as well.
7. Utilize the bibliography and note
card system I will teach and follow the instructions for submitting the final
draft. (These instructions will be written on the board during class on Friday,
October 4)
8. This essay is worth 200 points:
100 points for content and organization and 100 points for sentence structure,
grammar, etc.
OUT OF CLASS ESSAY ASSIGNMENT #2
Course theme: the significance of
home
Every family, at some point, must
face something extraordinary and/or challenging that impacts the family entity.
How do members of the family cope, adjust, and/or “deal” with the
event/situation?
I am not referring to the everyday
“bumps in the road” that occur for all families. Instead, I am asking you to
consider the family unit when faced with an especially challenging situation.
These situations could include but are not limited to:
• death
• birth
• infidelity
• serious injury
• dementia
• serious illness
• divorce
• unemployment
• new employment
• moving to a new
home/state/area/country
• the return of a war veteran
• moving BACK home after initially
moving OUT
• alcoholism
• drug abuse
Select ONE situation that you are most
interested in exploring. You will conduct research (and possibly personal
interviews, if possible) in order to write an essay that offers the reader
background on the topic and makes an assertion about what elements of a
particular situation impact a family in the most challenging of ways and
supports it logically and interestingly. Your essay should include A MINIMUM of
four distinct challenges.
Your thesis might read something like
this:
When a family member develops
dementia, the challenges are often devastating, yet the disease definitely
impacts family members more than the dementia patient.
Or…
When a couple divorces, it most
certainly impacts the children still living at home; however, it is the older
children who have already moved away that are most affected by the split.
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