(Teacher’s Instructions) :
Main Goals:
Complete all required assignment components (see list below).
Read required text: Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. (book info and purchase through AmazonLinks to an external site.).
After completing the required assignment components, you will now write a first-person personal essay (4-5 pages; 1,000-1,200 words; double-spaced; MLA format) that addresses the novel’s meditation on mortality. Here’s the two-part question writing prompt:
1. What (meanings, values, etc.) were the authors (Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba) trying to promote through the lens of Brazilian culture using the medium of graphic novel?
2. How has reading, working through this unit’s assignments, and reflecting on this novel’s storytelling method challenged your current views about the meaning of life and death?
Additionally, make critical and meaningful connections from the ideas you’ve developed and elaborated on from the Unit #4 Required Assignment Components, Character Analysis and Two-Column Journal. Revise and edit before submitting the final draft.
You will self-cite by quoting from your own ideas explored in the Unit #4 major assignments. To do this, you will use the Required Assignment Components as supporting evidence for the final draft of your Personal Essay.
Keep in mind: You should endeavor to look beyond the obvious. You are not writing a report nor an extended diary entry or journal about yourself but developing an argument. Finding ideas and examples that challenge your thinking introduced in Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ma’s Daytripper can show your personal engagement with their novel. Originality matters!
Required Text:
Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
Student’s Instructions:
I have attached my other assignments below that my professor has asked me to reference back to from Unit 4.
