Final Project Proposal Worksheet
Choose a marginalized author in American Literature. You will conduct research to use in the biography section ONLY and will be sure to cite any outside sources using APA Citation technique. You will follow the biography with a literary analysis of a chosen piece of the author’s writing which be be all your original writing; outside source material should not be used in literary analysis. Finally, you will submit a recorded presentation of your work as well as a written version; both will be worth 75 points.
STARTING PLACE (example: poet Etheridge Knight)
BRAINSTORM/FREEWRITE:
YOUR FINAL IDEA:
(example: I will write a literary analysis of Etheridge Knight’s poem, “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane”
Main idea: The literary analysis will focus on the use of animal symbolism to represent the perception that Black Americans have been unjustly categorized as intellectually inferior to White Americans as well as dangerous and how that has been damaging to Black Americans.)
