University of South Florida ?The Dystopian Novel the Testing Essay

Unit 2

For this second 2-page essay assignment, each student will write an essay about one theme in the texts that we have read thus far. Please make a clear argument about the importance of your chosen theme within the text, using textual evidence from the text(s) themselves.

**the text I chose is “the testing”Joelle Charbonneau.

Requirements:

2 Pages or 600 words

A clear argument with evidence from the chosen poem(s)

MLA Format

Possible Themes (Taken from Lectures, Discussion Questions, Readings):

Ecocriticism

Environmental Disaster

YA Fiction

Dystopian/Utopian Literature

Gender

Race

(You may also choose a theme from any text that we have NOT discussed, provided that you can support that argument with textual evidence)