You must compose an original 1300-1400-word essay that answer’s the following question: What literary or rhetorical device most empowers the message ofRita Wong’s “North Shore Sewage Story” All sources must be by Rita Wong
Take-Home Poetry Research Essay (28%) ENGL 1202 L11, Summer 2023 Due: Friday August 4th 2022 Context: The second essay requires sustained textual analysis of a poem as well as the incorporation of peer- reviewed sources, both of which should highlight the skills you developed this term. Instructions: You must compose an original 1300-1400-word essay that answer’s the following question: What literary or rhetorical device most empowers the message of the assigned poem? This essay also includes research requirements. To determine your sources, you must choose 1 of following options: OPTION A OPTION B OPTION C Song/Poem (Primary Source) Leanne Simpson’s “jiibay or aandizooke” (assigned poem) + 1 Additional Primary Source of Your Choice Rita Wong’s “North Shore Sewage Story” (assigned poem) + 1 Additional Primary Source of Your Choice Tawahum Bige’s “Origin” (assigned poem) + 1 Additional Primary Source of Your Choice Peer-Reviewed Sources Leanne Simpson’s “First Nations and Last Species” + 1 Additional Peer- Reviewed Source of Your Choice Rita Wong’s “Watersheds” + 1 Additional Peer- Reviewed Source of Your Choice Leanne Simpson’s “First Nations and Last Species” OR Rita Wong’s “Watersheds” + 1 Additional Peer- Reviewed Source of Your Choice [Hint: Simpson and Wong have both published additional primary and peer-reviewed sources that would be appropriate for this essay] Important Notes: • Word Count Penalty: You will lose 1% for every word over or under the required word count for the essay. Your submission information, title, and Works Cited page are not included in the essay’s word count. • Thesis: As in all essays, this effort requires that you have a strong thesis: an original claim about the topic that goes beyond a simple observation. You must determine an original and significant argument that arises from your analysis. • Content: Use close-reading skills and provide original analysis, not summary. Use textual evidence (i.e. quotations) from your texts. Discuss at least 2 literary devices or techniques. • Structure: The essay must contain all the Essay, Paragraph, and Thesis Statements “Parts” as studied in class. • Style: Your essay must include in-text citations, proper formatting, and a Works Cited page in accordance with MLA Style: https://libguides.kpu.ca/mla or https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/ml a_formatting_and_style_guide.html Evaluation: Letter Grade—See KPU’s Grading System (https://www.kpu.ca/calendar/2015- 16/academic-affairs/grades.html) and the rubric included on the following page for details. Submission: Upload on Moodle under “Assignment Submissions” as a doc. or docx. file. (No Pages files or PDFs please) Due Date: Friday August 4th 2023 by 11:59 PM (PST) https://libguides.kpu.ca/mla https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html https://www.kpu.ca/calendar/2015-16/academic-affairs/grades.html https://www.kpu.ca/calendar/2015-16/academic-affairs/grades.html ENGL 1202 Poetry Research Essay Checklist Do not submit your essay until this checklist is complete. ☐ Double-spaced lines ☐ 1-inch margins ☐ 12pt. font in Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri ☐ Submission information in accordance with MLA guidelines (name, date, instructor, course & title) ☐ An original title ☐ 1300-1400 words (not including your submission info, title, or Works Cited page) ☐ Introduction: ☐ Opening Hook ☐ Focusing Sentences ☐ Thesis Statement (with all the “parts”) ☐ Plan of Development ☐ Body Paragraphs: ☐ Topic Sentence ☐ Claims ☐ Textual Evidence (with properly integrated quotations) ☐ In-text citations ☐ Analyses/Interpretations ☐ Concluding Statement ☐ Transitional Words/Phrases ☐ A Conclusion with all its “parts” ☐ Quotations used from all sources ☐ 1 peer-reviewed source by Simpson or Wong ☐ 1 additional peer-reviewed source ☐ 1 additional primary source ☐ A Works Cited page in accordance with MLA guidelines ☐ Proofread the essay ☐ Complete this checklist ENGL 1202 L11, Summer 2023 Poetry Research Essay Evaluated Categories Achievement Level Content/Ideas F: Very Poor D Range: Poor C Range: Fair to Good B Range: Good to Very Good A Range: Excellent 1. Clarity of Thesis: intelligible, engaging articulation of main argument; recurrently referred. 2. Insight into Topic/Text(s): perceptive and compelling ideas, supported by close, accurate and detailed reading of chosen topic/text(s). 3. Development of Ideas: thoughtful elaboration of main and supporting idea; easy to follow an argument; clear direction. 4. Textual Support of Ideas: clear, properly incorporated quotations in direct support of argument; proper in- text citations. 5. Overall Relevance: applicable to the essay topic; follows instructions. Research F: Very Poor D Range: Poor C Range: Fair to Good B Range: Good to Very Good A Range: Excellent 1. Research Ability: right amount and types of requested sources, from appropriate locations; shows sound research abilities. 2. Research Incorporation: properly integrated as textual evidence; sources are clearly identified. 3. Research Relevance: the artifacts’ original contexts are respected; texts are not misrepresented; selections are pertinent to the author’s topic. Essay Structure F: Very Poor D Range: Poor C Range: Fair to Good B Range: Good to Very Good A Range: Excellent 1. Formatting: correct essay format, including proper use of MLA or APA 2. Paragraphing: clear topic sentences; full development of a single idea in each paragraph. 3. Logical Organization: clear connections between and within each paragraph; use of transitions; logical ordering. Writing Skills F: Very Poor D Range: Poor C Range: Fair to Good B Range: Good to Very Good A Range: Excellent 1. Clarity: unambiguous, intelligible wording; use of varied and relevant diction. 2. Originality: stylistically varied sentence structure; rhetorically persuasive. 3. Grammar + Spelling: correct spelling & use of verbs, prepositions, subordination, parallelism, modifiers, etc.; no typos. 4. Punctuation: correct use of comma, semi-colon, period, apostrophe, dash, quotation marks. etc. Grade: For comments and notes, please see my in-text copyedits and comments in your essay above; ensure that “All markup” is selected in your Review tab. Download Document 2014-06-12, 2:58 PMDownload Document Page 1 of 3file:///Users/susieobrien/Downloads/Download%20Document-2.html Title: Watersheds Author(s): Rita Wong Source: Canadian Literature. .204 (Spring 2010): p115. Document Type: Viewpoint essay Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2010 The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature http://www.canlit.ca/ Full Text: I would like to thank the Coast Salish peoples whose unceded territories we are on and in particular, the Musqueam. Not far from here is the only surviving wild salmon stream in Metro Vancouver, and its survival is due to the efforts of the Musqueam Ecosystem Conservation Society, which organizes monthly clean ups and offers public education tours about the stream. I speak situated as a non-indigenous person who is looking for ways to act as an ally, knowing that my own survival is intimately connected to the survival of indigenous peoples and their cultures. Through dialogue and thoughtful action we may shift away from the colonial norms that have been violently imposed upon this land toward a sense of interrelation and interdependence, not only with humans but with the plants and animals and minerals to which we owe our lives. That is, "cultural diversity" extends beyond the realm of the human into "biodiversity" if we are careful listeners and learners. I am an urban creature, one who has grown up in cities and loves them, but sometimes, the concrete streets and sidewalks feel like a heavy coat of English smothering the land. Sometimes, as I walk the streets I love, I'll see weeds crack through pavement, and they'll make me think of indigenous languages, trying to survive, to return balance to the earth so that she might breathe. What would happen if English cracked a little more, here and there, and more indigenous languages grew into it? Decolonizing and reindigenizing, respecting the cultures of this land, means paying attention to the language, not only of humans, though that is what we've been trained to focus on, but also the languages and cultures of the land. There is much unlearning and relearning that needs to happen, as pointed out in essays like Jeannette Armstrong's "Land Speaking." When pavement blocks the flow of water to the earth below, water slowly seeps through, in cracks, with erosion. The ground I think is so solid, is also full of groundwater, moving at a pace so slow that it may seem imperceptible, but moving nonetheless. Underneath the concrete is earthy life, stony life, fluid life. Writers, scholars, academics, we make our homes in watersheds, not just cities. If I start to map my life, my career, my communities, and my impact in terms of the watersheds I've lived in, I would start to perceive differently, and through that shift, perhaps to act differently as well. I might say Bow River instead of Calgary, I might say Fraser River instead of Vancouver. I might notice how one person's bottled water means another person's dried-up aquifer. I might notice, how close in salinity I am to ocean water, as Basia Irland puts it, how "each of us is a walking ocean, sloshing down the hallway with damp saline innards held together by a paper-thin epidermis" (x). This summer, I received a map of Canada's watersheds. Instead of ten provinces and three territories, I saw five watersheds, draining to the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, Hudson's Bay, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of seeing the usual lines that people have drawn, I saw the massive flow of water across the north part of the continent. You and I are part of that flow. We are roughly 70% water, and we are part of the hydrological cycle, not separate from it. Some of the water that is in our bodies may have previously circulated in dinosaurs millions of years ago, or jostled around with fish in lakes and rivers, or been processed by our local sewage treatment plant. Water connects us to places, people and creatures we have not seen, life that is far away from us, and life that came long before us. Each watershed has many critical issues that affect us all; these include the destruction of fish habitat, pollution, the body burden that resides in our fleshy tissues, everything from brominated flame retardants to anti-depressants to plastics and a wide array of human medications accumulating in the watery environments that make up 70% of this planet's surface. With the realization that our individual actions accumulate, there is a growing movement to find ways to change our cumulative impact. http://www.canlit.ca/ 2014-06-12, 2:58 PMDownload Document Page 2 of 3file:///Users/susieobrien/Downloads/Download%20Document-2.html At the same time, we cannot ignore that industry has a much larger impact on the environment than individuals. And when I think of threats to watershed health, one of biggest ones that comes to mind is the Tar Sands in Northern Alberta. I come from Alberta, the land of oil and water, as Warren Cariou's film calls it. In the Alberta Tar Sands, making one barrel of oil poisons roughly four barrels of water. The waste water held in huge tailings ponds are so toxic they immediately killed hundreds of migrating ducks who flew into the ponds. The wide-open ponds are the size of a city, and as they leak, they continue to kill humans and non-humans. The cancer rates of nearby indigenous communities have skyrocketed because of the pollution. What might a watershed moment in Canadian literature look like? It would, I think, take up the challenge to respond to the crisis posed by the Tar Sands. Moreover, and I'm only speculating, but for me, it would involve a reframing of our identities in relation to water, as a crucial part of the land. The earth is over 70% water, and as Alanna Mitchell points out, it is "the ocean that contains the switch of life. Not land, nor the atmosphere. The ocean. And that switch can be flipped off" (5) as it has been during the five previous mass extinctions that have occurred on this planet. Living in the midst of what many have suggested is the sixth mass extinction, I think we are living in watershed times, in the sense that the species which has caused this situation, are the ones with the responsibility to respond to it. A number of thinkers like Vandana Shiva have talked about moving from empire to earth community, and held out the possibility of a great turning in the dominant paradigms and systems by which we live. Literature has a role in such a watershed possibility, and it is only a possibility, nothing more, nothing less, that I see at this moment. Let me clarify that I do not see literature as an "instrument" toward some larger hope for humanity, but rather that the current ecological crisis in which we find ourselves invites creative