THE BOOK FOR THIS ESSAY IS NUMBER THE STARS BY LOIS LOWRY
Write a 750+-word essay on the Realistic Fiction book you selected that analyzes realistic fiction as domestic and adventure fiction. You must include direct quotations from your selected book as well as summaries and paraphrases to support your analysis. MLA in-text (brief) and Works Cited citations are required for quoted, summarized, and paraphrased material.
Your goal is to show how the book you selected demonstrates the characteristics of domestic and adventure fiction.
Read and take notes on the book you selected from the list.
Review the elements of domestic and adventure literature discussed in our textbook and course module.
Find specific examples of domestic and adventure fiction in the book you selected.
Based on your reading, select 4-5 traits of domestic and adventure children’s literature and write a paper that explains how the book you selected best represents one or both.
Outline your paper using the traits you selected and the examples you found.
Submit your paper in the appropriate assignment on Canvas.
The following questions are designed to help you organize your ideas as you prepare for this paper; however, you should not write answers to the questions; you should write an essay.
What are the traits of domestic fiction? What examples of domestic fiction can you find in the books? Choose specific examples. Explain them and relate them to the traits you selected.
What are the traits of adventure fiction? What examples of adventure fiction can you find in the books? Choose specific examples. Explain them and relate them to the traits you selected.
Do not summarize the stories.
For full credit, you will need to use examples (direct quotes, paraphrases, and summaries) taken from each book to support your points and identify various literary elements used (plot, character, conflict, etc.). Sources must be used to support your viewpoint. Make sure you use correct MLA in-text and Works Cited citations for all sources. Consider this rule of thumb: if you look it up, find it in our class material, on the web, in the TCC Library, on TV, in a journal, newspaper, or magazine, cite it.
Edit your paper to ensure that all in-text citations and Works Cited citations correspond. This typically means the first words in the Works Cited page are used in parenthesis and signal phrases in-text as the citation and the words the in-text citations must match the first words of the matching citation in the Works Cited list. Please check the MLA and ENG 111 Review Module for guidance on MLA documentation.
