) This is a one-page (250 words) assignment. Develop a “thesis statement” and support it for one page.

 

2) Read The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

 

                Source: Kate Chopin  The Awakening, isbn 1514639645

3) Watch Chopin lectures:

 

– Chopin 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dcj4FCybco&list=PLaqL5O0htd2ngRmEsbd097ZBz9Y-TJyPG&index=17

 

– Chopin 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aOVn5Bi1s&index=18&list=PLaqL5O0htd2ngRmEsbd097ZBz9Y-TJyPG

 

– Chopin 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMd04KTbipk&list=PLaqL5O0htd2ngRmEsbd097ZBz9Y-TJyPG&index=19

 

– Chopin 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43pAsrgj7k8&index=20&list=PLaqL5O0htd2ngRmEsbd097ZBz9Y-TJyPG

 

– Chopin 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-7_uSpDkI&list=PLaqL5O0htd2ngRmEsbd097ZBz9Y-TJyPG&index=21

 

4) What is a thesis statement? 

 

Phrase your thesis statement in a way that includes the full author name and the full title of the play/ novel/ short story.

 

i.  For example:  in William Shakespeare’s the tempest the protagonist Prospero represents colonial oppression.

 

ii. THE THESIS STATEMENT MUST BE THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THE THESIS PAGE. (see “tips_format_changes” file attached). The first paragraph should consist of two sentences only: (Thesis sentence. Forecasting sentence).

 

5) you do not have to finish the argument; just begin the argument and support it for one page.