Cultural and Historical Contexts

Choose a character from Hanberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and write at least a diary or journal entry that this character might have written. Try to reflect what is happening in the play in the entry and be sure to include the character’s private thoughts and ideas. You should also use the information you learned from the “Cultural and Historical Contexts” reading to shape the diary entries; in other words, try to have the diary entry reflect the character’s experience of the larger world around him or her, based on current events of the time. Writing well-developed paragraphs relevant to the prompt(s) (minimum 300 words). Be sure that your thesis is explicit and supported with one to two quotations from the literature. Do not write in first or second person. Following the rules of Standard English. Please proofread your writing before clicking the ‘submit’ button! When you include a quotation from the literature in your mini-essay, please place an in-text citation (also called a parenthetical citation) immediately after you close the quotation marks and before you place a period at the end of your sentence. That way, anyone in the class (including me!) can easily find the quotation in the literature if necessary. If you’re not sure what to place inside the parentheses, there is instruction in the textbook in Chapter 34- Quotation, Citation, and Documentation.  When you include in-text citations, there must be a Works Cited listing at the bottom of your post. Be sure to follow the “Quote Sandwich” when you insert quotations.