Assignments and Student Writing:
Inherit the Wind Scene Analysis

Due date: first version, typed, for peer editing, 3 copies: March 3, by class time

Final version due, with cover letter and peer edited drafts: March 13, by noon 124 FND, my mailbox

Recommended length: 1000 words

Audience: College students (not necessary Wellesley) who have not seen this film

Assignment:
Choose one scene from this film that you find interesting, significant, and long enough to sustain your essay of about 1000 words.

Analyze the scene, closely examining and explaining the form and function of the following aspects:

Make sure your scene analysis essay has a thesis that advances your theory about the way in which the scene you choose to analyze fits into the film as a whole. Your thesis may focus primarily on character development, plot development, or the film's theme.

Sources: You are limited to this film and your observations of it, and any class discussions we have had in this regard.

Documentation: MLA Documentation Style (see Allyn & Bacon.) Inherit the Wind. Dir. Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Frederic March and Gene Kelly. MGM, 1960.

N.B. You do NOT need a works cited page; cite the film in a parenthetical citation the first time you mention it in your essay, or, if you want to, you may use a footnote.

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