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English 11 Honors
Required Reading
Dracula
Directions: Choose ONE of the following essays to complete after reading Dracula. Your essay should be a minimum of two typed double-spaced pages in 12 Times New Roman font. Remember that the last sentence of your introduction should contain your thesis. Avoid plot summary and stay away from the internet. This essay is due the first day of school.
Choice One: Choose an implausible or strikingly unrealistic incident or character in Dracula. Write an essay that explains how the incident or character is related to the more realistic or plausible elements in the rest of the work. Avoid plot summary.Required Reading
Dracula
Directions: Choose ONE of the following essays to complete after reading Dracula. Your essay should be a minimum of two typed double-spaced pages in 12 Times New Roman font. Remember that the last sentence of your introduction should contain your thesis. Avoid plot summary and stay away from the internet. This essay is due the first day of school.
Choice Two: Many works of literature not readily identified with the mystery or detective story genre nonetheless involve the investigation of a mystery. In these works, the solution to the mystery may be less important than the knowledge gained in the process of its investigation. Write an essay in which you identify the mystery in Dracula and explain how the investigation illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.
Choice Three: From Dracula, select an important character who is a villain. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze the nature of the character's villainy and show how it enhances meaning in the work. Do not merely summarize the plot.
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