You have two choices for this essay: Using the ideas and arguments from oneof the essays (Bly, Orenstein, or Steinmetz), analyze the experiences and/or expectations of men, women, ornon-binary persons

You have two choices for this essay:

• Using the ideas and arguments from oneof the essays (Bly, Orenstein, or Steinmetz), analyze the experiences and/or expectations of men, women, ornon-binary persons as they are represented in two works of Literature -- at least one short story and one poem.

OR

• Identify a shared theme across all threeessays (Bly, Orenstein, or Steinmetz) and analyze the way each expresses the experiences and/or expectations of men, women, or non-binary.

Suggestions for writing:

• Don't start from scratch: use as much of the writing you've already done as possible!  The discussion posts in this class are intended to serve as a kind of draft for your essay, so stick with the essays, poems, and stories that you were drawn to and are familiar with.  Go back to those discussions and see what your peers had to say that might help you expand your thinking and make connections.  It's not plagiarism to use your own words!!
• Your thesis should make a clear argument about the way Literature and/or the essays offer a chance to reflect on the experiences and expectations of men, women, non-binary individuals; try to narrow down a specific experience/expectation.
• Use evidence from the texts by quoting, paraphrasing, and/or summarizing.
• Show your reader how the Literature and essays support your overall argument (thesis).
• Your conclusion is a good place to reflect on how these selections compare or contrast to your own experiences and expectations.

 Requirements:

• 3-5 pages
• MLA formatting (12-pt, Times New Roman, 1’ margins, original title)
• MLA citation (including a Works Cited page)

Example of Works Cited for a course reader:

London, Jack.  “Told in the Drooling Ward.”  Rpt. In English 002 Class Reader.  Isabel Anderson.  Solano Community College. Print.  pp ____

In-text citation guidelines

Reminders:

• Always use present tense.
• Give yourself time to proofread.

Here is a list of the readings for this unit:

Essays

Bly “Iron John”

Orenstein “What’s Wrong with Cinderella?” 

Steinmetz “Infinite Identities”

Videos 

Mayor "Did the Amazons Really Exist?"

Dreger "Is Anatomy Destiny?"

Poems

Elliott “The Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock” 

Cummings “ I carry your heart with me” 

WCW “Naked”

Donne “The Flea”

Herrick “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”

Arnold “Dover Beach”

Browning “My Last Duchess”

Larkin “Talking in Bed”

Byron “She Walks in Beauty”

Burns “A Red, Red Rose”

Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”

Yeats “The Second Coming”

Smith “Not Waving but Drowning”

Shakespeare “To Be or Not To Be”

Jarman “Interesting Times”

Hopkins “The Windhover”

Roethke “My Papa’s”

Plath “Daddy”

Kinkaid “Girl”

Lockwood “Rape Joke”

Song “Lost Sister”

Rich “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”

Cope “Lonely Hearts”

Stalling “First Love”

Nezhukumata Thil “Twelve Twelve Twelve”

Hejinian “from The Fatalist: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now”

Bishop “The Fish”

Rich “Cinderella” 

Plath “Lady Lazarus”

Boland “The Pomegranate”

Atwood “Miss July”

Duffy “Medusa”

Atwood “Happy Endings”

Short Stories

Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”

O’Brien “The Things They Carried”

Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Chopin“The Hour”