1) Final Paper Description

Assignment: Each student in Grade 12 College Preparatory English will write an original academic paper about A Streetcar Named Desire. The academic paper will be written using MLA style and include textual and peer-reviewed, scholarly research citations.The Rubric is available for your review on a separate page.

The Bibliographical Resources you need are available in the attachments section at the bottom of this page.

Final Paper Process:

1) Upload your PEPI's: Revise and upload your 3 PEPI paragraphs (so far) to your personal website. These will become your body paragraphs. Don't worry: you'll revise them according to your theory in a few steps....

2) Choose One Theory and Write about It: Choose one theory through which you would like to interpret A Streetcar Named Desire. Answer the questions within your chosen theory as applies to your own worldviews and A Streetcar Named Desire. [See the attachment titled "Theories and Streetcar Citations" r on the separate page.] If you skip a question, it's okay.

Hint: Balance your writing between universal statements and A Streetcar Named Desire as you answer the questions.

3) Create a New Page on your personal website called "Literary Paper: A Streetcar Named Desire."

4) Write your Introduction: Fill in the Introduction Template (located in the attachments section at the bottom of the page).

4) Copy your PEPIs, one at a time, into new paragraphs. (Note: just copy the sentences, not the table.) If you want to see other articles because you're not feeling one or more of the original PEPIs you wrote, see Dr. Carolyn or Ms. MacKinnon. We have more from which you can choose.

5) Transitional Sentences: Revise all the PEPIs so that you add in transitional sentences.Write your transitions in ways that include about your theory between excerpts from A Streetcar Named Desire and the peer-reviewed, scholarly excerpts you have chosen.

6) Write a Conclusion: Fill in the Conclusion Template. In it, you'll remind your audience in your final paragraph of your theory, your argument, and your support. Play it forward to discuss how a contemporary audience should learn from this paper and apply it to their lives.

7) Revise for Meaning: Read your writing aloud to yourself! Make significant changes to wording and grammar. (If you go to the Tutoring Center for a tutorial on grammar after school, you will receive 5 bonus points on the final paper.)