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attached is the story and rubric for this assignment.Requirements: Length and format: 2-3 pages. The title page and reference page are also required, but they should not be factored into the2-3 page length of the essay. It should also be double spaced, written in Times New Roman, in 12 point font and with 1 inchmargins. Essay should conform to APA formatting and citation style. Use the third-person, objective voice, avoiding personal pronouns such as “I,” “you,” “we,” etc. Please use the above sources and any outside sources you need to create a properly formattedAPA reference page. Use APA format for in-text citations and references when using outside sources and textualevidence. Skills to be assessed with this assignment: creating effective thesis statements, incorporatingtext, responding to literature. Please be cautious about plagiarism. Make sure to use in-text citations for direct quotes,paraphrases, and new information. eng_week_2_rubric__1_.pdf to_build_a_fire_english.docx Unformatted Attachment Preview ENG 130- Literature and Comp Literary Response for Setting as a Device Essay ENG 130: Literary Response for Setting Sources: Choose one of the stories that you read in Unit 2/Setting Unit  “To Build a Fire” by Jack London  “The Storm” by Kate Chopin  “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” by Alexie  “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe Prompt (What are you writing about?): How does Setting affect/contribute to the plot of your chosen story? Note: Remember that Setting is not only the place in which a story occurs. It is also mood, weather, time, and atmosphere. These things drive other parts of the story. How to get started:  Choose a story from this unit and discern all the elements of the Setting.  Decide in what three ways the setting contributes to the plot of your chosen story.  Formulate a thesis about setting and these three areas. Mini lesson on thesis statements:  If you were writing about Star Wars , a sample thesis might read: The setting in the Star Wars movies contributes to the desperateness of the Resistance forces, provides a vast space for action and conflicts to occur, focuses on how advances will affect society. Broken down, this thesis would read: The Setting in the Star Wars movies: a. contributes to the desperateness of the Resistance forces (write a supporting section with text examples) b. provides a vast space for action and conflicts to occur, focuses on how advances will affect society (write a supporting section with text examples) c. focuses on how advances will affect society (write a supporting section with text examples)  Ask yourself, what is the setting of my story and how does it affect the plot in the story? For example, it is apparent that in London’s “To Build a Fire,” you would devote a supporting section to how the weather conditions drive both the conflict and the character’s actions.  After you have made connections to the three areas that setting affects, then form your thesis. Here is a template for your thesis: The Setting in author’s name and title of the story, contributes to first way in which the setting affects the story, second way in which setting affects the story, third way in which setting affects the story. Instructions:  Read through all of the instructions of this assignment.  Read all of the unit resources.  Select one of the short stories to write about.  Your audience for this essay is people who have read the stories.  Your essay prompt is: How does Setting affect/contribute to the plot of your chosen story?  Your essay will have the following components: o A title page o An Introduction o A thesis at the end of the introduction that clearly states how setting affects the story o Supporting sections that defend your thesis/focus of the essay o Text support with properly cited in-text citations o A concluding paragraph o A reference page Requirements:  Length and format: 2-3 pages.  The title page and reference page are also required, but they should not be factored into the 2-3 page length of the essay.  It should also be double spaced, written in Times New Roman, in 12 point font and with 1 inch margins. Essay should conform to APA formatting and citation style.  Use the third-person, objective voice, avoiding personal pronouns such as “I,” “you,” “we,” etc.  Please use the above sources and any outside sources you need to create a properlyformatted APA reference page.  Use APA format for in-text citations and references when using outside sources and textual evidence.  Skills to be assessed with this assignment: creating effective thesis statements, incorporating text, responding to literature.  Please be cautious about plagiarism. Make sure to use in-text citations for direct quotes, paraphrases, and new information. Students: Be sure to read before you write, and again after you write, the rubric criteria by which your paper/project will be evaluated, Rubric for Setting Literary Response Does Not Meet Expectations 0-11 Introduction is not present. Below Expectations 12-13 Background details are a random collection of information, unclear, or not related to the topic. Needs Improvement 14-15 Introduction is attempted and explains the background, but may lack detail. Thesis Statement Thesis statement is not present. Thesis is unclear and loosely related to the paper or not present. Thesis does not appear in the introductory paragraph. Thesis is present and relates to the majority of the paper. Argument takes a mostly clear position and is explained in adequate detail. Thesis appears in the introductory paragraph. Organization Many details are not in a logical or expected order. The paper does not use paragraphs. Topic and/or transition sentences are not used Writing may have little discernible organization, but some details are not in a logical or expected order. The paper uses paragraphs ineffectively. Topic and transition sentences are used inadequately. Thesis is attempted with little relation to the overall topic. Argument is somewhat unclear or confusing. Some supporting points are missing. Thesis may not appear in the introductory paragraph. Writing has adequate discernible organization. Paragraphs are generally used effectively. Topic and Transition sentences are present in some of the sections Writing is organized and details are placed in a logical order. Paragraphs are mostly used effectively. Topic and Transition sentences are used effectively. Writing is effective, purposeful, and well-organized. Paragraphs are used effectively. Topic and Transition sentences add to the understanding and flow of the essay. Persuasiveness Fails to develop arguments. Develops most argument(s). Satisfactorily develops arguments. Expertly and fully develops argument(s). Evidence and Support Does not include text support and/or text support is not cited. Some argument(s) are developed, but may be missing one or need further elaboration. Very little evidence is given and used in the essay properly. Evidence may not relate to the thesis statement. Evidence is cited but not with the proper formatting. Errors evident throughout all of the areas: 1 inch margins, correctly formatted title Some evidence is used from the story and/or is somewhat related to the thesis statement. Evidence may or may not always cited properly. Evidence from the story is mostly tied to the thesis statement and used properly and is cited properly. Evidence from the story is used effectively and cited properly. Errors evident in three to four of the areas of: 1 inch margins, correctly formatted title Errors evident in one to two of the areas of: 1 inch margins, correctly formatted title Free of errors in: 1 inch margins, correctly formatted title page, correctly formatted Introduction APA Format APA format is not followed. Satisfactory 16-17 Introduction explains the background, including an overview of the essay’s main points. Meets Expectations 18-20 Introduction uses interesting anecdotes, questions, or other information to build interest. Many to all main points are logically related and developed. Thesis is organized and focused on the paper. Argument takes a clear position and is explained in full detail. Thesis appears in the introductory paragraph. Grammar and Mechanics Grammar and mechanics’ errors make the essay incomprehensible. page, correctly formatted reference page, double spacing, Times New Roman,12 font. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and mechanics errors occur throughout document. Word choices are seldom academic. Sentence structure may be illogical or unclear. page, correctly formatted reference page, double spacing, Times New Roman, 12 font. Several errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling and mechanics present. Word choice reveals some understanding of academic language requirements. Many sentence structure issues exist. *A zero can be earned if the above criteria are not met. *Plagiarism will result in a zero. page, correctly formatted reference page, double spacing, Times New Roman, 12 font. Some spelling, grammar, punctuation and mechanical errors are evident. Academic language is upheld. The sentence structure is often logical and clear so that relationships among ideas are established. reference page, double spacing, Times New Roman, 12 font. Free of punctuation, spelling, grammar, and other mechanical errors. Consistent use of academic word choices. Sentence structure is mostly logical and clear. To Build a Fire by Jack London Londons story is featured in our collection of Dog Stories and Short Stories for Middle School. Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth- bank, where a dim and littletravelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. It was nine oclock. There was no sun nor hint of sun, though there was not a cloud in the sky. It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. This fact did not worry the man. He was used to the lack of sun. It had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky- line and dip immediately from view. The man flung a look back along the way he had come. The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was all pure white, rolling in gentle undulations where the ice-jams of the freeze-up had formed. North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for a dark hair-line that curved and twisted from around the spruce- covered island to the south, and that curved and twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind another spruce-covered island. This dark hair-line was the trail--the main trail-that led south five hundred miles to the Chilcoot Pass, Dyea, and salt water; and that led north seventy miles to Dawson, and still on to the north a thousand miles to Nulato, and finally to St. Michael on Bering Sea, a thousand miles and half a thousand more. But all this--the mysterious, far-reaching hairline trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all--made no impression on the man. It was not because he was long used to it. He was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon mans frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and mans place in the universe. Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the use of mittens, ear-flaps, warm moccasins, and thick socks. Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that never entered his head. As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled. He knew that at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crackled in the air. Undoubtedly it was colder than fifty below--how much colder he did not know. But the temperature did not matter. He was bound for the old claim on the left fork of Henderson Creek, where the boys were already. They had come over across the divide from the Indian Creek country, while he had come the roundabout way to take a look at the possibilities of getting out logs in the spring from the islands in the Yukon. He would be in to camp by six oclock; a bit after dark, it was true, but the boys would be there, a fire would be going, and a hot supper would be ready. As for lunch, he pressed his hand against the protruding bundle under his jacket. It was also under his shirt, wrapped up in a handkerchief and lying against the naked skin. It was the only way to keep the biscuits from freezing. He smiled agreeably to himself as he thought of those biscuits, each cut open and sopped in bacon grease, and each enclosing a generous slice of fried bacon. He plunged in among the big spruce trees. The trail was faint. A foot of snow had fallen since the last sled had passed over, and he was glad he was without a sled, travelling light. In fact, he carried nothing but the lunch wrapped in the handkerchief. He was surprised, however, at the cold. It certainly was cold, he concluded, as he rubbed his numbed nose and cheek-bones with his mittened hand. He was a warmwhiskered man, but the hair on his face did not protect the high cheek-bones and the eager nose that thrust itself aggressively into the frosty air. At the mans heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolf-dog, grey-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its brother, the wild wolf. The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for travelling. Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the mans judgment. In reality, it was not merely colder than fifty below zero; it was colder than sixty below, than seventy below. It was seventy-five below zero. Since the freezingpoint is thirty-two above zero, it meant that one hundred and seven degrees of frost obtained. The dog did not know anything about thermometers. Possibly in its brain there was no sharp consciousness of a condition of very cold such as was in the mans brain. But the brute had its instinct. It experienced a vague but menacing apprehension that subdued it and made it slink along at the mans heels, and that made it question eagerly every unwonted movement of the man as if expecting him to go into camp or to seek shelter somewhere and build a fire. The dog had learned fire, and it wanted fire, or else to burrow under the snow and cuddle its warmth away from the air. The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath. The mans red beard and moustache were likewise frosted, but more solidly, the deposit taking the form of ice and increasing with every warm, moist breath he exhaled. Also, the man was chewing tobacco, and the muzzle of ice held his lips so rigidly that he was unable to clear his chin when he expelled the juice. The result was that a crystal beard of the colour and solidity of amber was increasing its length on his chin. If he fell down it would shatter itself, like glass, into brittle fragments. But he did not mind the appendage. It was the penalty all tobacco- chewers paid in that country, and he had been out before in two cold snaps. They had not been so cold as this, he knew, but by the spirit thermometer at Sixty Mile he knew they had been registered at fifty below and at fifty-five. He held on through the level stretch of woods for several miles, crossed a wide flat of nigger-heads, and dropped down a bank to the frozen bed of a small stream. This was Henderson Creek, and he knew he was ten miles from the forks. He looked at his watch. It was ten oclock. He was making four miles an hour, and he calculated that he would arrive at the forks at half-past twelve. He decided to celebrate that event by eating his lunch there. The dog dropped in again at his heels, with a tail drooping discouragement, as the man swung along the creek-bed. The furrow of the old sled-trail was plainly visible, but a dozen inches of snow covered the marks of the last runners. In a month no man had come up or down that silent creek. The man held steadily on. He was not much given to thinking, and just then particularly he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch at the forks and that at six oclock he would be in camp with the boys. There was nobody to talk to and, had there been, speech would have been impossible because of the ice-muzzle on his mouth. So he continued monotonously to chew tobacco and to increase the length of his amber beard. Once in a while the thought reiterated itself that it was very cold and that he had never experienced such cold. As he walked along he rubbed his cheek-bones and nose with the back of his mittened hand. He did this automatically, now and again changing hands. But rub as he would, the instant he stopped his cheek-bones went numb, and the following instant the end of his nose went numb. He was sure to frost his cheeks; he knew that, and experienced a pang of regret that he had not devised a nose-strap of the sort Bud wore in cold snaps. Such a strap passed across the cheeks, as well, and saved them. But it didnt matter much, after all. What were frosted cheeks? A bit painful, that was all; they were never serious. Empty as the mans mind was of thoughts, he was keenly observant, and he noticed the changes in the creek, the curves and bends and timber- jams, and always he sharply noted where he placed his feet. Once, coming around a bend, he shied abruptly, like a startled horse, curved away from the place where he had been walking, and retreated several paces back along the trail. The creek he knew was frozen clear to the bottom--no creek could contain water in that arctic winter--but he knew also that there were springs that bubbled out from the hillsides and ran along under the snow and on top the ice of the creek. He knew that the coldest snaps never froze these springs, and he knew likewise their danger. They were traps. They hid pools of water under the snow that might be three inches deep, or three feet. Sometimes a skin of ice half an inch thick covered them, and in turn was covered by the snow. Sometimes there were alternate layers of water and ice-skin, so that when one broke through he kept on breaking through for a while, sometimes wetting himself to the waist. That was why he had shied in such panic. He had felt the give under his feet and heard the crackle of a snow-hidden ice-skin. And to get his feet wet in such a temperature meant trouble and danger. At the very least it meant delay, for he would be forced to stop and build a fire, and under its protection to bare his feet while he dried his socks and moccasins. He stood and studied the creek-bed and its banks, and decided that the flow of water came from the right. He reflected awhile, rubbing his nose and cheeks, then skirted to the left, stepping gingerly and testing the footing for each step. Once clear of the danger, he took a fresh chew of tobacco and swung along at his four-mile gait. In the course of the next two hours he came upon several similar traps. Usually the snow above the hidden pools had a sunken, candied appearance that advertised the danger. Once again, however, he had a close call; and once, suspecting danger, he compelled the dog to go on in front. The dog did not want to go. It hung back until the man shoved it forward, and then it went quickly across the white, unbroken surface. Suddenly it broke through, floundered to one side, and got away to firmer footing. It had wet its forefeet and legs, and almost immediately the water that clung to it turned to ice. It made quick efforts to lick the ice off its legs, then dropped down in the snow and began ... Purchase answer to see full attachment