Writer choice

36257Topic 1: Write an essay in which you compare Art Spiegelman’s Maus to a more traditionally formatted story assigned for this class or a comic book you are familiar with. How are elements including theme, plot, and conflict different or alike in the two works? How successful do you think Spiegelman is in conveying his message through the more unfamiliar format of the graphic novel?

is a formal essay and should be formatted according to APA guidelines. Review the APA Format link (click on “Start Here” and then “Course Resources”) if you need assistance in creating a title page, headers, citations, or a References page. You do not need to include an abstract.

Write a 750-word (minimum) You must meet the minimum word count to get full credit.
Your essays must include quotes from each text used to get full credit. Be sure to quote, cite, and reference from the text(s) using appropriate APA format.

Assigned readings include:

Timeline (pp. 18-19)
Christopher Columbus

biography (p. 24)
“Letter to Luis de Santagel Regarding the First Voyage” (pp. 25-26)
“Letter to Ferdinand and Isabel Regarding the Fourth Voyage”
(pp. 26-28)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

biography (pp. 28-29)
from “The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca” (pp. 29-35)
Anne Bradstreet

Biography (p. 110)
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” (p. 120)
“The Prologue” (pp.111-112)
” In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old” (pp. 121-122)
Mary Rowlandson

biography (pp. 126-127)
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson (pp. 127-143)
American Literature 1700-1820

Timeline (pp. 168-169)
Red Jacket

biography (p. 229)
from “Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram” (pp. 230-231)
Benjamin Franklin

Biography (pp. 234-236)
“Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” (pp.244-247)
Thomas Paine

Biography (pp. 323-324)
from Common Sense (pp. 324-331)
Phillis Wheatley

Biography (pp.401-403)
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” (p.403)
“To the University of Cambridge, in New England” (pp.404-405)
“To His Excellency General Washington ”
(pp. 410-411)

American Literature 1820-1865

Timeline (pp. 464-466)
“Slavery, Race, and the Making of American Literature” (pp. 761-762)
Edgar Allan Poe

biography (pp. 683-687)
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (pp. 702-714)
Walt Whitman

biography (pp. 1005-1009)
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (pp. 1069-1073)
Emily Dickinson

biography (pp. 1189-1193)
Poem 122 (“These are the days when Birds come back”) (p. 1194)
Poem 207 (“I taste a liquor never brewed”) (p. 1195)
Poem 236 (“Some keep the Sabbath going to Church”) (p. 1196)
Frederick Douglass

biography (pp. 934-938)
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (pp. 1002-1005)
American Literature 1865-1914

Timeline (pp. 1279-1281)
Kate Chopin

biography (pp. 1604-1605)
“The Story of an Hour” (pp. 1609-1611)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

biography (pp. 1668-1669 )
“The Yellow Wall-paper” (pp. 1669-1681)
“Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper'” (access using this link)

American Literature 1914-1945

Timeline (pp. 1279-1281)
Langston Hughes

biography (pp. 2221-2222)
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (pp. 2222-2223)
“Mother to Son” (p. 2223)
“I, Too” (pp. 2223-2224)
Robert Frost

biography (pp. 1911-1912)
“Mending Wall” (pp. 1913-1914
“The Road Not Taken” (pp. 1919-1920)
Richard Wright

biography (pp. 2244-2245)
“The Man Who Was Almost A Man” (pp. 2245-2253)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

biography (pp. 2147-2149)
“Babylon Revisited” (pp. 2164-2178)
Willa Cather

biography (pp. 1861-1863 )
“Neighbor Rosicky” (pp. 1863-1883)

Susan Glaspell

biography (pp. 1926-1927)
Trifles (pp. 1927-1936) AND
watch the performance of Trifles below