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ENC1102--This post contains three assignments with different due dates. Please read the post carefully. Due Dates are April 13, April 18, and April 25.


Print out and annotate these stories. Highlight important sentences. If there is not enough room for annotations on the printout, write notes in your binder. Focus on how different types of literary rhetoric (organization of plot, details, characterization, dialogue, imagery, mood/tone, shifts, setting, figurative language, connotations of diction, etc.) support a theme. Indicate page numbers, paragraph numbers, and line numbers, as appropriate. You might consider doing the "Shorter Analysis Activity" to better understand the texts: https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2019/11/analysis-of-text-shorter-version.html. This part of the assignment is optional. I want you to read the stories, annotate them, and think of good discussion questions, although the questions do not have to be written down.


"The Lady with the Dog" http://www.shortstoryamerica.com/pdf_classics/chekhov_lady_withthe_pet_dog.pdf (due April 13, 2023)

"A Hunger Artist": https://basdwpweb.beth.k12.pa.us/liberty/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/06/A-Hunger-Artist-by-Franz-Kafka.pdf (due April 18, 2023)

"The Chrysanthemums" http://mspachecogdhs.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/0/13206998/the_chrysanthemums_by_john_steinbeck.pdf (due April 25, 2023)


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How to Annotate a Text

See these links:

http://schoolhabits.com/annotate-text-reading/

https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2014/01/english-i-how-to-take-notes-on-fiction.html#more

https://prezi.com/ctwiszjrqb7h/why-how-to-annotate-a-text/

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/rwc/handouts/the-writing-process-1/invention/Annotating-a-Text

Additional Ways to Take Notes 

https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2019/11/analyzing-text-paragraph-by-paragraph.html

Taking Notes if the Reading Assignment is Fiction

https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2020/01/analyzing-short-storiesfiction.html

For Ideas on How to Summarize (Useful for Fiction and Nonfiction)

https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2020/01/httplearnonpoint.html

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