- I want you to write a Rough Draft of your Midterm’s Introduction, including a thesis statement. Underline/highlight your thesis statement. Include in your thesis:
o Define folktales in two to four sentences. Work in a quote from Stith Thompson’s article read in class.
§ Historical perspective?
§ Transformation of meaning
o Provide a thesis à Why do folktales exist; what are they used for; by whom?
o Introduce your Topics that will be your topic sentence
- Also, separately, have at least two Topic Sentences that you feel help develop your thesis statement. Keep “folktales” as the subject of sentence!
o Example ways to start:
§ “One of the values folktales teach …”
§ “How do folktales teach children to be ...?”
- Lastly, read Bruno Bettelheim’s “’Cinderella’: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts” (627-634).
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