American Studies Socratic Seminar Make Up (Unit 4)

Type one page double spaced answering each question (minimum 4 pages double spaced.) To receive full credit you must refer to specific works of literature.
Questions
Texts to consider: O Pioneers!, The Awakening (if you read it), “Women and Economics,” “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “The Story of an Hour” (attached)

Be prepared with ideas on and passages to support your ideas for the following questions:

1.What important issues come up in these pieces? Why are they important?
2.Do any of these pieces differ from one another significantly in their message? If so, which one (s) and how?
3.What connections can you find between these pieces and other writings we have read this semester, including Phyllis Wheatley, Ben Franklin, Thoreau and Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Twain, Crane and London?
4. What statement do these pieces make about America? About American Literature and American History?

6 Standard Comma Rules

6 Standard Comma Rules

1. A comma should be used to join two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (BOYSFAN: but, or, yet, so, for, and, nor).
2. A comma should be used to separate items in a series (the final one in front of the "and" has been declared optional--so it is not tested for on standardized tests)
Example:
3. A comma should be used after an introductory dependent/subordinate clause
4. A comma or commas should be used to set off appositives, interrupters, and parenthetical expressions
5. A comma should be used after introductory phrases [verbal or prepositional]---this one is now under debate about the necessity when the phrase is short [fewer than 5 words]6. A comma should be used after a single introductory word