LITERATURE CIRCLE ESSAYS
LITERATURE CIRCLE ESSAYS
Read each of the following essay prompts carefully. Select one of the prompts and, using your Literature Circle novel, write a carefully crafted 500 word essay that explores the prompt in-depth.
PROMPTS:
1. Identify and explain one of your novel’s major themes. Explain how this theme is evident in the text and analyze how the author develops the theme and/or how it affects the plot, characters, conflict. Discuss the theme’s relevance to the novel’s time period and/or to today’s society.
2. Explore one of your novel’s social issues. Explain the issue and analyze how it affects your novel (characters, plot, conflict). Discuss whether this issue is still relevant today and why your author chose to address it.
3. Explain the significance of relationships in your novel. You may focus on an in-depth analysis of one specific relationship, or discuss several relationships in less detail. Analyze the impact of this (these) relationship(s) on your protagonist, the plot, the conflict, and/or the theme. Examine the development of the relationship(s) – explore how and why they change as the novel progresses.
4. Analyze the writing style of your novel. Explain the effects of your author’s stylistic choices (ie. Organization into chapters, books, journal entries) on the reader’s experience. Examine some of the literary devices (ie. Symbolism, imagery, allusions, flashbacks, foreshadowing, figurative language, irony, suspense) the author used and their effects on the story.
5. Analyze a major conflict from your novel. Identify the conflict’s type and kind, and analyze the conflict’s development and resolution in relation to your novel’s protagonist. How was this character affected? How was the character involved? What did the character learn?
Refer to your Essay Writing Handbook for proper MLA format.
• Your essay must include direct quotations from your novel, and may include direct or indirect quotations from other sources.
• This essay does not require a title page.
• This essay requires a properly formatted Works Cited page, even if you only quote from the novel itself.
Your final product must include the following (in order):
• Polished copy of the essay
• Works Cited page
• Essay outline
• Rough draft of essay with revisions and edits
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