Multi-Work Theme Essay. ___/40 points
Answer the ONE of
the following questions in a well-developed, multi-paragraph essay on a
separate piece of paper:
- What is the American Dream
and is it realistic for all people?
- How does gender, race, and
class affect our experiences as humans in society?
- How can jealousy/greed
affect a person?
- What is the meaning of
loyalty?
For full credit, you must do the following for 10 points
each:
- organize
your thoughts in a coherent form with an introduction, conclusion, and
mostly proper spelling, capitalization, and grammar. *Remember, intros include authors and
titles correctly formatted as well as a thesis statement (what you will
prove/argue). Conclusions summarize
your main points and restate your argument.
- connect
evidence from Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men to your thesis.
- connect
evidence from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to your thesis. (Bryan Sargent and Jake Berry may use
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman instead of The Great Gatsby)
- connect
evidence from your own observations and study to your thesis
RUBRIC: For full
credit, you must do the following for 10 points each:
- organize your thoughts in
a coherent form with an introduction, conclusion, and mostly proper
spelling, capitalization, and grammar.
- connect evidence from Of
Mice and Men to your thesis.
- connect evidence from The
Great Gatsby (Bryan Sargent and Jake Berry may use Death of a
Salesman instead of The Great Gatsby) to your thesis.
- connect evidence from your
own experiences/observations/study to your thesis.
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