Due date: Friday, April 22 by midnight to Turnitin.com
· At least 2 ½ pages, double-spaced, carefully edited, mostly error-free, no fragments, typos
Proper MLA parenthetical documentation, header, first-page info (upper-left corner), and proper works cited page with at least two references (one can be a personal interview).
· Uploaded with works cited page to Turnitin.com by midnight on date due
Works Cited should include Camus and any other works consulted
· Do NOT go on the internet to search for ideas about Camus, risking unintentional plagiarism
A narrow topic of your own choosing—with your own clear thinking and analysis
Consider Camus’s novel, The Stranger, and any of the following:
· personality, detachment, choice, internalized thinking (the trivial thoughts and sensations that constantly run through our heads), and being an outsider from society
Write an essay in which you explore any of these ideas, or the theme of alienation and being an outsider
· Relate your analysis of being an outsider (or whatever you decide to focus on) to your own generation.
· Find just one event, character, or passage from Camus and use it to make a connection to your own world and through it explore in great detail one aspect or idea: Marie’s love, the prison, the funeral, the beach scene, the trial, the dog, Arabs and the French, Meursault’s reporting and writing style, etc.
ALTERNATE MULTIMEDIA ‘ESSAY’
Or you can choose to create a multi-media response to this assignment. Here is what is required:1. A written one-page portion explaining your main point and also how you used different media to express that point. (due Fri. April 22. The presentation will be due the following week during class on Monday, April 25)
2. Choose from among various media available to you, combining them:
a. Video or imovie
b. Videoblog
c. PowerPoint
d. Survey (monkey survey, etc.)
e. Chatzy or other chatroom forum hosted and moderated by you
f. Audio or typed interviews with members of the larger community
g. Musical composition (in addition to other media)
h. Artistic composition (in addition to other media)
i. A digital literary zine (see http://fablogs.org/space/2010/04/14/hello-world/ )
j. More than just a blog, but some kind of project involving blogs
k. Animoto.com
l. Other media
3. Focus narrowly on one topic of your choosing, incorporating The Stranger in at least one paragraph or part.
a. Detachment and alienation: Being a stranger to our world or to ourselves
b. Individual choice vs. passive compliance
c. Internal reactions to events vs. individuals controlling events
d. Detaching from high school and home to go attach to college and peers
e. Other topics that are both personal but can be related to The Stranger
MORE NOTES ON ESSAY:
--As you read in class and at home, try to find one aspect of the novel, or one scene, or one idea that you connect with and begin brainstorming your essay.
--If students want to collaborate, talk to the instructor.
