essays

Use this space, as well as the discussion tab to post ideas, documents regarding the essays we are going to assign for this course:

1.) The "Our America" essay

2.) The //Romeo and Juliet// literature analysis. Here are some topics that I have used for essay tests. Just thought that they might give a starting point for ideas.-K

3.) The "unexamined life" expository essay I was thinking about how we can relate this to the Odyssey. I talk a lot about the Greek values- love of home, hospitality, and loyalty to family. There are a lot of times where we see Odysseus take for granted that these would be shown to him, especially hospitality. Also, he takes several objects for granted-- wax, weaponry, even dung in the cyclops' cave. Maybe we can take all of these ideas and reframe the prompt to take these into account. What do you think? This was originally Tom's prompt, then I adapted it. Here is the prompt that I used with my honors. It could easily be adapted to use it with regulars as is, but it might need a bit more explanation. The word count would need to be adjusted depending on what the length was that we require for regulars. -K

4.) Narrative / Descriptive Essay