Each Unit of this course includes one critical article about one of the literary works covered in the Unit. For Unit #1, the work discussed in the article is Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave. The article by Cynthia Richards (“Interrogating Oroonoko”) follows this page.
To complete the assignment, please follow these steps:
- Read the article, while utilizing active reading techniques.
- Open word processor and create new file.
- Following Annotated Bibliography format, begin document with an MLA Style Heading at the top left of the page and a Header with last name and page number at top right (Header should appear on each page).
- Be sure to format document in keeping with MLA Style formatting for MLA Annotations found here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/annotated_bibliography_samples.html
- In roughly 500 words, summarize the major points of the article, utilizing at least three direct quotes.
- In an additional 100+ words, offer a unique analysis of the article. Which points do you find most interesting? Which point illuminated the text for your? Which passage from the article did you find to be most difficult to understand? Explain any additional research that helped to explain this passage?
