Work on “The Terrible Old Man” paper 3-3-16 Goals: Work on “The Terrible Old Man” paper Sign up for individual conference for next week

SCHEDULE CHANGE! Schedule: Today: Bring “Old Man” work to class. 3/3 HW: Write complete draft of “Old Man” paper. Tuesday: Individual conferences M or Tu; no class meeting. 3/8 HW: Revise “Old Man” paper; submit to turnitin.com. Thursday: Turn in “Old Man” paper. 3/10 Before you leave, sign up for a 20-minute conference on Monday or Tuesday.

ASSIGNMENT CLARIFICATION!

For this assignment, you need to “identify a specific feature of the story that makes it ‘scary’ and explain how that feature works.” Based on the work you have done so far, find specific evidence – key words or phrases – that illustrate your “specific feature,” so you can use this evidence to support your claims. Make a list of those words and phrases for possible use in your paper.

One feature of “The Book” that makes the story scary is the unknown. My memories are very confused. There is even much doubt as to where they begin; it seems as if the present moment were an isolated point in a grey, formless infinity. I am not even certain how I am communicating this message. These words and phrases could help you IDENTIFY “the unknown” as a feature that “makes the story scary.” I have a vague impression You might spend one or two body paragraphs citing such evidence to show what you mean by “the unknown” and to show that it really IS a key feature. My identity, too, is bewilderingly cloudy. I seem to have suffered a great shock

One feature of “The Book” that makes the story scary is the unknown. Topic Sentence 1: References to the unknown appear in the first sentence of the story and dominate the opening paragraph. Topic Sentence 2: Similar references continue throughout the story. Topic Sentence 3: The use of unknown in classic horror stories and films shows that audiences are frightened by the unknown. (Evidence from outside the story – from scary movies and scary stories.) Topic Sentence 4: The use of unknown works the same way in “The Book.” (Show parallels between “The Book” and the movies/stories mentioned in body paragraph 4.) Thus we see that Lovecraft draws on a long tradition of scaring audiences by presenting them with unidentified sounds, mysterious shapes, unexplained occurrences, and other story elements that they can’t quite know.

For this assignment, you need to “identify a specific feature of the story that makes it ‘scary’ and explain how that feature works.” Based on the work you have done so far, find specific evidence – key words or phrases – that illustrate your “specific feature,” so you can use this evidence to support your claims. Make a list of those words and phrases for possible use in your paper.

Today: Bring “Old Man” work to class. Schedule: Today: Bring “Old Man” work to class. 3/3 HW: Write complete draft of “Old Man” paper. Tuesday: Individual conferences M or Tu; no class meeting. 3/8 HW: Revise “Old Man” paper; submit to turnitin.com. Thursday: Turn in “Old Man” paper. 3/10 Before you leave, sign up for a 20-minute conference on Monday or Tuesday.