10B Homework Announcements

1. Study for a quiz covering the themes of The Garden Party as well as your class notes over The Garden Party. This quiz will be on Monday.

2. Read the introduction to Ballad on page 25 of your textbook. Then read Edna St. Vincent Millay's The Ballad of the Harp Weaver on pages 27-28 of your textbook. After you have finished reading, write out the answers to the comprehension questions in your notebook. We will be checking these answers on Tuesday. You will have a one question quiz covering this story on Tuesday.

Essay Assignment: The first draft of this essay is due Friday, 3/20, the final draft is due Friday, 3/27

Write a 3-4 page essay that shows where the theme of class conflict occurs within The Garden Party and then analyze this theme. In addition to clearly demonstrating where this theme is within the story, your essay must also answer at least two of these questions:

• What is Katherine Mansfield saying about class conflict within her society?
• What are the costs of dividing the upper class and the lower class?
• What is Katherine Mansfield saying specifically about the way that the upper class lives?
• According to Mansfield, what changes need to occur within the upper class society?

Your essay should cite several specific passages from the story to support your arguments and these citations should be in proper citation format.

Essay Format

• 3-4 typed pages. If you are under or over this requirement, you will recieve a deduction.
• 12 point Times New Roman Font.
• Double Spaced
• Proper Title and Heading that includes your full name, the date, the class and the assignment Page numbers on the bottom of each page
• 1 inch margins on each side.

Essay Form

• Your essay should have a clear introduction and thesis statement.
• The body paragraphs of your essay should directly correspond to your thesis statement.
• Your conclusion should summarize everything you have said in your essay, and it should not introduce any new information.
  

Proper Citation and Analysis Format-
Here is an example of proper citation format:
The first citation of your essay should have this information:
(A Beka Book's World Literature, The Garden Party, page number)
After that, the rest of your citations can simply have (The Garden Party, ___)

Here is an example of what I want to see in your essay in terms of citation, citation format and analysis. Imagine this in the body of your essay.

Unlike her family, Laura does not believe that there should be a separation between the people of the upper class and the lower class. For example, when she meets the workmen, she is drawn to them and even thinks, "Why couldn't she have workmen for friends rather than the silly boys she danced with and who came to Sunday night supper? She would get on much better with men like these." (A Beka Book's World Literature, The Garden Party, 15) This passage reveals several important things about Laura. First of all, it reveals that Laura, unlike Jose and her mother, is capable of seeing the humanity of the workmen; they are not animals or things, they are humans. Furthermore, she genuinely likes them and wants to be friends with them. It is clear from this passage that although Laura is aware of a division between the upper and lower class, she wishes that it wasn't there.