For this assignment, we will be doing something a little different! We will be doing something called an
“unessay” on the class book The Many Deaths of Laila Starr. An unessay is a way to promote critical thinking and self-expression in a more creative.Creativity is at the heart of what makes us human (See The Human Spark by Agustin Fuentes).
Imagination and creativity allow us to find answers to problems in unique ways. Even if 1,000 people looked at the same issue, you bring a unique and distinctive view to the question based on your personal lived experiences. However, and quite sadly, creativity has been mostly “educated out” of us (see Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson for more on this). This is an experiment in a different way of letting you explore the class materials and topics in a way that is salient to your own goals in college (which are most likely different than mine!)
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- Respond to the book The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
- A minimum of 3 quote sandwiches total. These Be sure to analyze instead of retelling the book. 👍
- Use proper MLA in-text citations, formatting, and Works Cited entry. 📓
- Please see the module for more information. 😊 An in-text citation will look like: (V Ch. 1). There are now page numbers and you don’t cite the character speaking.
- Transitions between paragraphs
- Please check with me before using outside sources. This is a close, textual analysis paper, so your evidence should not be personal, nor outside.
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