The stories include:

• A Doll's House
• "Too Soon a Woman"
• "The Quiet Man"
• "A Jury of Her Peers"
• "Venus is a Man's World"
• "The Dinner Party"

Paper options for Lit 12

1.       Woman as the object (+or -)—Identify how women are depicted as objects in the texts and whether or not that objectification is positive or negative.

2.       Imprisonment—How does imprisonment affect characters in the stories that we read? What do the stories say about people who are trapped? How can we move on? How can we avoid it in the first place? (Combine questions or use the texts to answer one)

3.       Marriage (+ or -) —Using the texts, demonstrate how marriage is depicted as a positive or negative institution. If it is positive, is it realistic? If it is negative, is there hope?

4.       Video option: Create Act IV for A Doll’s House. Five minute video showing what will happen to the characters after the Act III is over and Nora leaves.

Some of the examples for the topics above include:

1.       Megan Fox in Transformers, Katharine Hepburn in Philadelphia Story, Tippie Hedron in Marnie, Roy Orbisson’s “Pretty Woman”, Madonna’s “Material Girl”, Wreckx-n-Effect’s “Rump Shaker”

2.       Tupac’s “Trapped”, Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues”, “Trapped” - Apple Insomnia Film Festival 2007, (also you could use Casablanca or Philadelphia Story—check them out).

3.       Carly Simon’s “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard it Should be”, Anne Bradstreet’s “To my Dear and Loving Husband”, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How do I Love Thee?” 

• Paragraph 1--State the stance you are taking. List the texts you will be using and (in general) how they fit. Use a hook to capture the reader's attention. (20%)
• Paragraph 2-?--Go through each story/media clip and how it proves your point, or have each paragraph relate to a specific argument with multiple stories proving that argument. Either way, you'll need at least two paragraphs, and the topic (first) sentence should relate back to thesis. (60%)
• Last Paragraph--Conclusion. Not just a recap, but a chance to look to the future, personalize, add philosophy, tie the themes together, strong imagery, etc. (20%)
• All paragraphs should be written with clarity and focus, as well as use proper spelling, grammar, and appropriate word choice. Cite the stories where your examples come from (you should have at least six instances when you cite a text).