For the midterm CRIT, you will move through the Close Reading Interpretive Tool steps we have been using throughout the term in order to perform a close reading of a text of your choosing from the list below.
Using the attached Microsoft Word document (below) or copying and pasting your responses in the text submission box, write your responses to each step of the Close Reading Interpretive Tool (CRIT) process for your selected text.
Please select only one text from this module to analyze, referring to the same text for each step of the CRIT process. Each step is accompanied by detailed instructions as to what is expected. Please remember to stick closely to the text alone as it is presented (with or without accompanying contextual information). There is no need to conduct outside research for the midterm. Instead, contextual observations should come from lecture videos and course texts that provide context to the reading.
Use this Microsoft Word document to enter your responses to each step of the CRIT process or copy and paste your responses in the text submission box.
Select one text from this module to perform your midterm close reading. Note the identified contextual period in parentheses next to each text; please use these to refer back to the appropriate lecture videos, notes, and assigned texts in order to provide contextual observations:
Charles Chesnutt, “Po’ Sandy” (Realism/Regionalism)
Kate Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby” (Realism/Regionalism)
William Dean Howells, “Editha” (Realism/Regionalism)
Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Exposition Address” (Social Construction of Race)
W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Our Spiritual Striving” (Social Construction of Race)
