Research Prompts for September 11

Research Prompt, No. 1

Bleak House, Basic Overview

Create a chart with the following information:

1. Give a brief summary (50 words) of each chapter in today's reading assignment.
2. What are the additional main figures, or, who are the new characters in the text?

Email a digital copy of this chart to the instructor before the start of class: rtbarnha@ic.sunysb.edu

Research Prompt, No. 2

Contingency, Irony, Solidarity, Chapter 2

Create a chart with the following information:

1. Make a list of ten key points from this chapter.
2. Make a list of twenty or so terms that you are unfamiliar with from this chapter. (Every time you see a word you don't know, write it down.)
3. Write a rough draft summary of the chapter.

Email a digital copy of this chart to the instructor before the start of class: rtbarnha@ic.sunysb.edu

Research Prompt, No. 3

Bleak House, Foreshadowing & Narrative Structure

Create a chart with the following information:

1. Keep track of any foreshadowing in the text. List at list five instances. You can pull from the last reading as well.
2. Briefly map the narrative structure from the beginning up to chapter 16: what events happen when in the narrative.

Email a digital copy of this chart to the instructor before the start of class: rtbarnha@ic.sunysb.edu