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TEACHING JOYCE
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Student Sample Papers

Below are sample papers written by tenth grade AICE/Cambridge students. They were given the below prompt after having passed the Joyce unit in class which involves "After the Race", "The Dead", and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. These were written during the school closures of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic so the students wrote them on their own with no help from a teacher beyond the knowledge and experience they had already gained.

PROMPT:
By now, you have read "The Dead" and "After the Race" by James Joyce's short story collection, 
Dubliners.  To keep with the theme and keep things simple yet educational, we're going to explore a few others. There are 13 short stories remaining in the collection: "The Sisters", "An Encounter", "Araby", "Eveline", "Two Gallants", "The Boarding House", "A Little Cloud", "Counterparts", "Clay", "A Painful Case", "Ivy Day in the Committee Room", "A Mother", and "Grace". 

Your task is to choose any 7 you want. Read them. Write a 5-paragraph informative essay for each story explaining 1) what the story was about, 2) something on a deeper level that you learned (subtext), and 3) how it can relate to a 21st century audience. This will be your short story analysis. You will need textual evidence in your 3 body paragraphs. 

Standards: ELA.10.R.1.1, ELA.10.R.1.2, ELA.10.R.2.1, ELA.10.R.3.1, ELA.10.R.3.3, ELA.10.C.1.3, ELA.10.C.2.1, ELA.10.C.4.1, ELA.10.V.1.2, ELA.10.V.1.3 


"Eveline"

"Counterparts"

"The Sisters"

"Araby"

"An Encounter"

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      • "Araby"
      • "An Encounter"
      • "The Sisters"
      • "Counterparts"
      • "The Boarding House"
    • Dubliners >
      • After the Race >
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        • The Text and Questions
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      • URG: Setting Up
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    • Sarah Barrett
    • Jennifer Fuentes
    • Rosa Guzman
    • Connor Simms
    • Benjamin Reyes-Reyes
    • Chelsea Ashton Wall
    • Aiden Semon