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Homework
Instructions
Choose one of the following homework to show your knowledge of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and the material on Pre-writing strategies.
Read Annie John closely and pay attention to characterization, setting, how the action flows and the story line moves forward.
Use the resources of this unit/module, journal homework, PowerPoint presentation, reading comprehension information, and perhaps do a bit of research to help you achieve success on this homework.
A. Create an extensive presentation of events that occur in Jamaica Kincaid's novel, including when events happened and how the events show that the novel is not only a coming of age story, but a story meant to show the contrasts of a culture that has three distinct pasts, one informed by slavery, one informed by indigenous peoples, and one informed by the colonizers. Discuss the complexity of Annie John's life and include an introductory paragraph, detailed paragraghs, and at the end of the homework, discuss what you've learned about the complexity of Antigua culture and v the effectiveness of Kincaid's bildunsroman that weaves in the complexity of culture. Length minimum, 3 - 5 pages.
B. Using the ideas of the Prewriting material, specify in depth five different, specific strategies you would could possibly use to generate student writing. Please include any supplementary materials you would create as well. Length 5 or more pages.
C. Create a PowerPoint Presentation for someone who has never read Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John. Include such story elements as how tension is displayed, key themes, the meaning of symbolism, and point of view and much more as applicable. Include a Pre-writing strategy to help them fully understand what has been presented. Length 10 to 20 slides.
D. Write anbildunsroman - a coming of age story - that also reflects some deep truths about the culture the person who is coming of age lives within. This story should show the contrast of the new - the young person growing up, and the old - the past culture that functions as a point of friction for this person's maturity. The story or narrative should be a minimum of ten pages long and definitely be about a character who learns from her experiences, mainly because for most of her life, the truth is hidden from her. Length 10 to 20 pages.
E. Watch a movie that has similar themes to Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and compare and contrast the alike (categorical) features found in Kincaid's novel to it. Writing a comparative paper would mean writing in depth about the plots, themes, moments, characters in ways that bring the highlights of both mediums out fully. Length 3 - 6 pages.
F. Write a persuasive essay on Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, discussing something you believe is very important that Jamaica Kincaid is trying to express about growing up, coming of age, how the past remains alive in the present, the complexity of parenting,, way of life, cultural conflict, opposing forces that make the novel so interest in, nature symbolism or other kinds of symbolism, or how doe the shifting tensions of the story accentuate its meaning. The paper should be 3 to 6 pages in length.