IDENTITY AND/OR CULTURE
In a 4-6 page paper, analyze how a story from this unit – through its specific language, characters and/or plot – makes a general claim about identity and/or culture. What do you believe the author is using the story to say about how identity and/or culture influence us? Argue for the validity of your interpretation using evidence from the text. My Rough draft is attached. Final draft should be 4 pages. Just need something with a couple quotes. Expanded version of rough draft with new ideas. Guidance Questions: “Shooting an Elephant”: How do the political, economic, historical, and social forces shape the narrator’s sense of identity? How does the narrator’s job as a British soldier enforcing what he believes to be an unjust occupation of Burma complicate his struggle with his conscience and identity? [unique_solution]What is the connection between the act of shooting the elephant and cultural imperialism? Does the paper fully address the prompt, meet the minimum length and stay on topic? ________ of 20 Are paragraphs organized logically with clear, controlling topic sentences? ________ of 25 Does the paper use inductive reasoning to identify a general claim made about culture and/or identity in a story and does the paper argue for or against the validity of the claim? ________ of 20 Are the style and tone formal, academic and appropriate? ________ of 10 Are quotations well integrated with frames and do they support the analysis? ________ of 25 Is the expression of ideas clear? ________ of 25 Are the mechanics of the paper correct? In a 4-6 page paper, analyze how a story from this unit – through its specific language, characters and/or plot – makes a general claim about identity and/or culture. What do you believe the author is using the story to say about how identity and/or culture influence us? Argue for the validity of your interpretation using evidence from the text. My Rough draft is attached. Final draft should be 4 pages. Just need something with a couple quotes. Expanded version of rough draft with new ideas. Guidance Questions: “Shooting an Elephant”: How do the political, economic, historical, and social forces shape the narrator’s sense of identity? How does the narrator’s job as a British soldier enforcing what he believes to be an unjust occupation of Burma complicate his struggle with his conscience and identity? What is the connection between the act of shooting the elephant and cultural imperialism? Does the paper fully address the prompt, meet the minimum length and stay on topic? ________ of 20 Are paragraphs organized logically with clear, controlling topic sentences? ________ of 25 Does the paper use inductive reasoning to identify a general claim made about culture and/or identity in a story and does the paper argue for or against the validity of the claim? ________ of 20 Are the style and tone formal, academic and appropriate? ________ of 10 Are quotations well integrated with frames and do they support the analysis? ________ of 25 Is the expression of ideas clear? ________ of 25 Are the mechanics of the paper correct?