_ Your essay should be at least 750 words long and should be double-spaced. Your essay s

_ Your essay should be at least 750 words long and should be double-spaced.  Your essay should have a title, a hook or pull in to start the introduction, and a clear thesis statement with a claim and point of support.  Each paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that is a claim about the poem that is related to your thesis statement.  You should use carefully selected words, phrases, images, figures of speech, etc. as evidence to support your claims.  All evidence should be supported by explanation and argument as well.   Quoted material should be placed in quotation marks and followed by the line number or numbers in parentheses.  Your paper should also contain a conclusion and a Works Cited page.  You might also check out the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University for help in writing about poetry (type OWL and Purdue into Google and, if prompted, choose the link that says "Non-Purdue instructors and students).  Finally, check out the numerous examples of student essays in your anthology. 

_ Formatting requirements: Use standard MLA document formatting requirements.  Google “OWL Purdue MLA documentation style” and click on the first link for a sample and detailed information.

• Length: minimum of 850 words, not including the Works Cited page
• Submission Directives: Submit your essay in the Turnitin dropbox in the designated Learning Unit.  (See your syllabus and the Learning Units).
• Assignment Objectives:  Your goal is to apply a critical strategy to a work and to develop and support a specific thesis.  Your essay should be unified, developed, organized, and coherent, and should use a sophisticated sentence-style while meeting the demands of standard English.  I’ve given you specific topics to get you started thinking.