How does Smith criticize traditional films that feature minority casts in “Dinosaurs in the Hood?”

Researched Critical Lens Planning Instructions

Planning is a crucial step in essay writing because it helps organize your thoughts and prevents you from jumping around or repeating yourself. These are the steps you will follow to complete the Planning Worksheet: • Choose a work of literature from the provided list. • Select a CRITICAL LENS from the provided list. • Consider your opinion and draft a thesis statement. • Decide what each body paragraph needs to discuss. • Write topic sentences. • Select evidence from the literary text AND 3 (THREE) scholarly sources from the library databases • Plan the conclusion. Choose a work of literature To develop your thesis statement, you will need to first select one of following literary textswe have read: • Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” • Susan Glaspell, Trifles • Sandra Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek” • Owen Wilfred, “Dulce et Decorum Est” • ee cummings, “next to of course god america I” • Danez Smith, “Dinosaurs in the Hood” • Danez Smith “not an elegy for Mike Brown” Select a critical lens Once you have selected the literary work you want to write about, you will need to select one of the CRITICAL LENSES we have studied in this course: • Psychoanalysis o How a character’s mental state influences the work • Feminism o How the treatment of women and/or the perspectives/experiences of women influence the work • Historical Perspectives o How the time and place in which the work was written influences the work o How the historical events that took place at the time and place in which the work was written influences the work • Cultural Perspectives o How cultural norms, social expectations, or social issues at the time the work was written influence the work Consider your opinion and draft a thesisstatement Now that you have chosen both the literary work and the critical lens, it is time to consider your opinion. For example, pretend that you have chosen “Dinosaurs in the Hood” and the Cultural Perspectives lens. • How does Smith criticize traditional films that feature minority casts in “Dinosaurs in the Hood?” • How is the Black Lives Matter Movement reflected in “Dinosaurs in the Hood?” ‘ • How is the concept of stereotyping used in “Dinosaurs in the Hood?”