"Salvation," by Langston Hughes

Photographed at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Summer 2009

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

DUE THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2010

@ 6:00 P.M.

Read "Salvation," by Langston Hughes (p. 261 of our text). Be prepared for a 5-question quiz on Thursday (remember, quizzes count for extra points -- this quiz will be worth 10 points).

Write a First Response to Salvation.

You may free-write a response, or use some or all of the following prompts:

*Consider the methods of fiction: tone, plot, characterization, setting, point of view, irony, theme -- which method most affected your response to the literature?

*Discuss Langston's experience with salvation and compare it to one of your own.

Provide specific textual details and quotations from the story to justify and/or explain your response to Salvation.

Remember, a first response is not a summary -- use 3-5 quotations from the story and discuss how the story affected you.

First Response Guidelines:

*8.5x11-inch paper

*1-inch margins

*typed, double-spaced, Cambria 12 font

*minimum one (1) page; maximum two (2) pages

Upper left-hand corner of the paper, single spaced:

FIRST AND LAST NAME

February 11, 2010

Professor Melinda Roberts

Comp & Lit II: Spring 2010

Centered Title (all caps and bolded):

RESPONSE PAPER: "SALVATION"