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Friday, October 29, 2010

Due Monday, 11/1

Reflection paper on "The Fall of the House of Usher".

Your paper should be written in formal voice, and use quotations from the text to support your points, but there are no other structural requirements: focus on developing strong insights and writing mature sentences. It should be typed and double spaced, and be about 2 pages long.

You may explore elements of symbolism, parallels, the role of reason, the supernatural, characters, etc, or it may take an interesting idea from class today and run with it. You may find this is a good opportunity to take some risks and speculate on some interpretations of the material.

Enjoy!

(And since many of you will put this off until Sunday, Happy Halloween!)