How do the female authors’ works reflect the time period in which they write?
“I’m Just a Girl,” lyrics by the group No Doubt.*Literary study and analysis of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand *Selected speeches, including Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” *Selected essays and letters, including some by George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Nora Ephron, and Ellen Goodman *Journal writing and timed writings III. EQ: How do playwrights present society’s moral dilemmas?*Literary study and analysis: Death of a Salesman, Inherit the Wind *Selected essays and letters on moral dilemmas, including Leonard Pitts Jr.’s “Illiteracy is what really scares me.” *Timed writingsProject: persuasive speeches.IV. EQ: Is there anything funny about literature?*Selected humorous essays by authors such as Mark Twain, James Thurber, and Dave Barry. *Write a humorous essay using similar literary devices as those found in the studied essays. *Timed writingsProject: research paper/literary criticismTimed Writings (C5)Students will be writing one timed essay per week to
