Write a personal narrative about your experience with reading “required” reading in school, specifically high school.
In correct MLA format, please write a 1500-minimum (you can ALWAYS do more than I ask) word essay responding to ONE of the prompts on page 2 of this sheet. Give your essay an original title. The first paragraph is a three-part It should consist of a HOOK, SUMMARY (following the “Summary Mad Libs” format) of the book OR individual text from the anthology and your THESIS responding to one of the prompts on page 2. Your thesis should use key words from the prompt and make some sort of claim/argument that your body paragraphs will examine more closely. The summary and thesis should be all together in one paragraph, the very first paragraph; your THESIS should be the FINAL sentence in the introductory paragraph (and SEPARATE from your summary’s “author’s purpose” sentence). Any outside research in the hook or background should include a citation and a matching Works Cited entry. The subsequent paragraphs are your BODY PARAGRAPHS. Each should begin with a focused, three-part topic sentence. The body paragraph should support your topic and your thesis with vivid and specific details from the text(s) including direct quotes and/or paraphrasing and in-text citations. (Do not use direct quotes within your topic sentences.) The last paragraph is your conclusion. Remind your reader of your own thesis—what did your paper just prove? Then make a larger statement about the text, graphic novels, banned books…whatever the overall topic (not thesis) of your essay, make a compelling argument that it matters. Include a Work Cited page for the complete text (and any research you do on your own). See Module on citations and Works Cited pages.
Required reading for this assignment.. The Best American Non-Required Reading 2019, edited by Edan Lepucki