11:59 p.m. Tonight

 . . .is the on-time deadline for the 2nd short fiction essay.  If you miss it, the paper is late.  The world does not end.  Come to class anyway.  There will be important work that if not done in the groups will have to be done on your own.

Yes, hard copies due in class. 

Reminders: 

• Quotation marks for short works; italics for long.  The Metamorphosis can go either way.  (But don't leave it unmarked, as I did here.)
• Utilize only ONE SENTENCE for your complete thesis (main claim plus deftly-implied organization).  Get preliminary matters out of the way (including author/title, set-up essentials) before the thesis itself.
• Note the instructions for citing source for  this paper; see Perrine p. 20 and examples on p. 40 and p. 43.  Use (    ) with page number ONLY--not author-- for parenthetical citations

(And make sure you've eliminated the extra space in the MLA heading.  And of course make sure you are using the correct elements for each line.)