Complete the assigned reading for Week 1 before completing this assignment. Part of your grade is based on selection, integration, and citation of direct quotations.
Read all of the information below before posting your response. This is a post-first forum, and you must post your response before gaining access to your classmates’ posts. Submitting a blank post may result in a reduction of your grade.
You should post an initial post by 11:59 p.m. Friday of Week 1 that. . .
Argues a thesis about the characters, events, or ideas in any of the readings assigned readings in Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, or Phillis Wheatley
Is 200-300 words minimum, excluding quotations and citations.Follows APA style in its use of in-text citations and a References entry at the bottom of the post.
Includes two properly integrated and cited direct quotations to support your claims. See the Literary Analysis Tools Module from Week 1 for information about integrating and citing quotations.
By 11:59 p.m. Sunday of Week 1, respond to one peer in about 125 words. Compare and contrast your peer’s response to the literary works to your own. How are they similar? How are they different? What did you learn from your peer’s post?
Your initial post is worth up to 75 points, and your response to your peer is worth up 25 points. The total assignment value is 100 points.
APA GUIDE
Samples of title formatting, a references entry, and an inline citation appear below. They should not just be copied and pasted, but should reflect the current work under discussion.
Title formatting in the body of your posts: “The Author to Her Book.”
Title formatting in the references entry: The author to her book.
Sample inline citation: (Bradstreet, 2023, p. 122)
The bottom of your paper should have a references entry following one of the models provided below:
References
Bradstreet, A. (2023). The author to her book. In R. S. Levine (Ed.), The Norton anthology of American literature: Beginnings to 1865 (Shorter 10th ed., pp. 122-3). W.W. Norton & Company.
OR, if you’re using the web version:
Bradstreet, A. (1981). Prologue. Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43705/prologue-56d22283c12e1