Independent Drama Unit
Essential Question: How does literary theory and criticism enhance one’s basic understanding of a work of literary merit?
Activities / Evaluation: Students will choose a drama from a list of works of literary merit. The objective of this unit is to read a piece of literary merit, seek out and process literary criticism on the text, and then produce two assignments one of which will synthesize the literary criticism. The second of which will produce a sophisticated analysis of the work. Both assignments require students to follow MLA format for citing text and documenting sources. Synopsis of assignments as follows:[unique_solution]
Assignment I (Assignment Due: Thursday, December 19, 2019)
Find two pieces of literary criticism (from University of Delaware lib search) and read them. Create a dialogue (conversation or debate) between the two critics that highlights their positions about the text and then connect to your own reading of text. Avoid mere summary of the two positions. Your discussion should include citations from the research and a Works Cited page. Please follow the guidelines from 2016 MLA. All research will be submitted via Schoology. This paper should be three to four pages and is worth 100 points.
Assignment II: (Assignment Due: Monday, January 12, 2019)
Create an AP Open-ended essay question and write an essay that answers this prompt. Unlike an in-class essay where you do not have access to the text, please follow the conventions of formal critical-analytical writing where a strong introduction and thesis lead to literary analysis enhanced by direct quotations. Do not use outside resources for this paper (only the text of the drama). Please utilize in-text citations when quoting the drama. (Follow MLA 2016 guidelines for citing drama.) This paper should be approximately 3 pages and is worth 100 points (not counting the prompt).