1. STONE BUTCH BLUES

3. ESSAY #2: TURN IT IN
Your essay must be in MLA format. Please swap with a
neighbor and check the header, the heading, and the works
cited page to make sure all formatting is correct. If your
essay is not in MLA format, I will not accept it.
Put your final draft on top
Under the final draft, please place a copy of your edited draft.
This is the draft on which you made sentence level
corrections. We worked on it at our last meeting.
Under the edited draft, please place two or more copies of
your peer reviewed drafts. (These points count for both the
reviewer and the reviewed.)

4. TERMS FOR EXAM 2
Exposition: a form of discourse that Interior monologue: represents
explains, defines, and interprets. the inner thoughts of a
The word is also applied to the character, recording the internal or
beginning portion of a plot in which emotional thoughts or feelings of an
background information about the individual.
characters and situation is set forth.
Plagiarism: literary theft, which is
Idiom: the language, dialect, or style the taking or closely imitating of the
of speaking peculiar to a people or language and thoughts of another
the constructions or expressions of author and representing them as
one language whose structure is not one’s own—even if this is done
matched in another language. without conscious thought. This
Idioms often possess a meaning includes self-plagiarism, which is
other than their grammatical or unwittingly borrowing from your own
logical ones and cannot be directly work. While common among
translated into another language. It Elizabethan dramatists, it is now
also is used to describe something prevented by copyright laws.
peculiar to an individual.

6. Each team will have two minutes to present an answer to a question about
Stone Butch Blues.
Teams must offer specific textual evidence. In other words, there must be a
quotation to which the team refers.
The team must be able to offer a brief explanation or analysis of how the
quotation supports or offers the answer to the question.
If any team begins an answer but cannot finish or finishes
unsatisfactorily, the next team can steal the quotation and provide analysis.
Quotations can only be used once in a round. It will behoove you to have
multiple options, particularly if your group will present last.
If there is extra time in any given round, we will go back to the first team for
another answer.
I will be the final judge in all cases.

7. QUESTION 1
Order of response: teams 1, 2, 3, 4

8. QUESTION 2
Order of response: teams 2, 3, 4,1

9. QUESTION 3
Order of response: teams 3, 4,1,2

10. QUESTION 4
Order of response: teams 4,1,2,3

11. Reading: Stone Butch Blues (260-end) and the prompt for Essay
#3 (find it on the website)
Post 18: Choose ONE:
Find and discuss a moment Jess resists the larger social construct.
How and why does ze do it? How does it contribute to the person
Jess ultimately becomes? Do you have evidence?
OR
Find and write about an instance when Jess is forced to conform to
the dominant social paradigm. How does conforming (or trying to
conform) change hir? What is your evidence?
Terms Exam #2 at our next meeting
HOMEWORK