Tues, April 29 Prufock graphic organizer

Due today: Two textual examples for each of the four themes in Prufrock. I'll check those in for a homework grade at the beginning of class.

In class work: completing the organizer with three more examples. The reason we are doing it this way is so you will have another opportunity to read the poem.

Homework: Complete the essay organizer in anticipation of using it for your in-class essay on Thursday, where we will be in the library computer lab. They  will be collected them at the beginning of class tomorrow and return them to you on Thursday.  class handout / copy below.

T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.     Essay prep

 Discuss how T.S. Eliot develops the theme of (1.Loneliness and Alienation, 2. Indecision, 3. Inadequacy or 4. Pessimism) in his dramatic monologue The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock.

Please write the introduction to your essay.

Establishing / hook sentence: (this may be historical, as related to modernism)

Thesis statement or controlling idea. (note: you should finish this paragraph with a reference to the use of character and the technique of stream of consciousness.)