Honors Assignment: Critical Approach Report
Due to TurnItIn.com 8/31 by 4pm
Enrollment Assignment:
Diagnostic Report on Critical Approaches (Due 8/31 @ 4pm)
Diagnostic Report on Critical Approaches (Due 8/31 @ 4pm)
English 12 Honors: TurnItIn.com Info
To submit the first honors assignment, please add this class IN ADDITION TO your regularly assigned English 12 Period
Yes - this is a second class that you are signing up for via TurnItIn.com
To submit the first honors assignment, please add this class IN ADDITION TO your regularly assigned English 12 Period
Yes - this is a second class that you are signing up for via TurnItIn.com
CLASS ID: 18903533
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PASSWORD: eng12honors
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An Open Letter to Potential Honors Students:
Often, after receiving the initial critical approach assignment, students tend to have similar questions.
Below, you will find a response that I gave last year in an email to a potential honors student about the diagnostic assignment. Upon recognizing that information may be helpful to all of you writing this diagnostic report, I've decided to post this response for your consideration, perusal, and undoubted enjoyment.
Hey [delightfully proactive student who shall not be named],
So, for the three body paragraphs where you are talking about three different critical approaches, you should use at least two examples per paragraph. (In essence, this would be at least six examples total in the report). The analysis for each source (ie: novel, play, short story, poem) should be short - a quick 2-3 sentences for why you think that this source could be analyzed using the particular critical approach you are talking about.
I'm not looking for any particular genre - whether it is a great American novel written in the 1950's that you read for a class, or a young adult page-turner that you read for fun last summer, I'm just looking for connections. AND organization. Be specific about WHY you are choosing each source for each critical approach. Is it a character that you think represents a person that the author actually knew - why? Is the setting similar to a society that the author grew up in - how so? Is the female protagonist written about in a certain way that is meaningful - in what way? THESE are the kinds of questions you should be answering in each body paragraph.
And remember: paragraph one is just a summary of what a critical approach is in general. After your research, how would you explain using a critical approach? What's the significance? When is it used? Why? (Call me crazy, but I would even recommend writing paragraph one last...)
Hope this helps! If you have any further questions, let me know.
---Stoll
Often, after receiving the initial critical approach assignment, students tend to have similar questions.
Below, you will find a response that I gave last year in an email to a potential honors student about the diagnostic assignment. Upon recognizing that information may be helpful to all of you writing this diagnostic report, I've decided to post this response for your consideration, perusal, and undoubted enjoyment.
Hey [delightfully proactive student who shall not be named],
So, for the three body paragraphs where you are talking about three different critical approaches, you should use at least two examples per paragraph. (In essence, this would be at least six examples total in the report). The analysis for each source (ie: novel, play, short story, poem) should be short - a quick 2-3 sentences for why you think that this source could be analyzed using the particular critical approach you are talking about.
I'm not looking for any particular genre - whether it is a great American novel written in the 1950's that you read for a class, or a young adult page-turner that you read for fun last summer, I'm just looking for connections. AND organization. Be specific about WHY you are choosing each source for each critical approach. Is it a character that you think represents a person that the author actually knew - why? Is the setting similar to a society that the author grew up in - how so? Is the female protagonist written about in a certain way that is meaningful - in what way? THESE are the kinds of questions you should be answering in each body paragraph.
And remember: paragraph one is just a summary of what a critical approach is in general. After your research, how would you explain using a critical approach? What's the significance? When is it used? Why? (Call me crazy, but I would even recommend writing paragraph one last...)
Hope this helps! If you have any further questions, let me know.
---Stoll