• Theme: Opening lecture on fiction
• Interpretive strategies focusing on character (class notes)
• Interpretive strategies focusing on plot and conflict (class notes)
• Interpretive strategies focusing on point of view
• Class notes on Paper Writing
• Sample Thesis Sentences for Fiction Essay
• Fiction Essay Checklist
• Sample Intro/Outline for Fiction Essay
• Class notes on Symbolism (added 2-15-10)

• Conflicts of a Madman in Poe‘s “A Tell-Tale Heart”

• The Irony of Louise Mallard’s Widowhood

• Acceptance Can Be a Hard Thing in Life: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"

• Understanding and Acceptance in "A Pair of Tickets"

Poetry essay assignment

Sample poetry intro and first body paragraph

Othello Study Questions

• Act I
• Act II
• Act III
• Act IV
• Act V