Agenda 11/19

1) Persuasive Research Essay Step One: Research Question
- handout on guidelines for crafting a question
- your question is due Wednesday

2) Billy Budd Reading Quiz ch. 16-24

3) Discuss Billy Budd

** See this web site for helpful notes on Billy Budd. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/bb/BillyBudd.html

Homework:
- Finish reading Billy Budd
- Write a one paragraph discussion preparation on Billy Budd. You may wish to consider:
1) Elements of Romanticism/Transcendentalism. What might Melville be saying through them?
2) What is Melville's opinion of man-made authority?
3) Discuss an allusion/figurative language. What message/idea is Melville conveying?
- Craft research question (due Wednesday)