Have an outstanding weekend!
English 20, Summer 2012---C. Fraga
Date assigned: Thursday, June 7
Rough draft (optional): due no later
than Tuesday, June 12
Final draft due: Thursday, June 14
Details:
1. MLA format
2. At least 4 outside sources on your
Works Cited page
3. Please, no Wikipedia
4. No formulaic, 5 paragraph essay
OUT OF CLASS ESSAY ASSIGNMENT #2
Among many things, the series Breaking Bad focuses on the family
entity and what happens when something quite extraordinary occurs—how do
members of the family cope, adjust, and/or “deal” with the event/situation? (In
the case of this series, obviously it is Walter’s cancer that is the ‘event’).
I am not referring to the everyday “bumps
in the road” that occur for all families. Instead, I am asking you to consider
the family unit when faced with an especially challenging situation. These
situations could include but are not limited to:
• death
• birth
• infidelity
• serious injury
• dementia
• serious illness
• divorce
• unemployment
• new employment
• moving to a new
home/state/area/country
• the return of a war veteran
• moving BACK home after initially
moving OUT
• alcoholism
• drug abuse
Select ONE situation that you are
most interested in exploring. You will conduct research (and possibly personal
interviews, if possible) in order to write an essay that offers the reader
background on the topic and makes an assertion about what elements impact a
family in the most challenging of
ways and supports it logically and interestingly.
Your thesis might read something like
this:
When a family member develops
dementia, the challenges are often devastating, yet the disease definitely impacts
family members more than the dementia patient.
Or…
When a couple divorces, it most
certainly impacts the children still living at home; however, it is the older
children who have already moved away that are most affected by the split.
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