asks you to write a 4-6 paragraph literary analysis essay of a

asks you to write a 4-6 paragraph literary analysis essay of a story you’ve read ahead of time.

The story you will analyze this semester is “Winter in Academia

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,” which was written by John Jackson and published in volume 76, issue number 3 of The Antioch Review in summer 2018 on pages 478-490.

You will write an essay with thesis statements below:

1. The setting inside Grelk’s office and the weather outside reflect Grelk’s overall mood and state in life.

the skills we worked

supporting a thesis with textual evidence from a literary text

sticking to this thesis throughout the essay

integrating and explaining textual evidence

citing textual evidence with the author’s last name and page number in parentheses

organizing an argument into paragraphs with topic sentences and transitions

and creating a Works Cited entry.