“Shrank-Detecting Mary Queen of Scots”

  Write an analytic response essay to the primary text-“Reading Monarch’s Writing” using TWO secondary source, “Shrank-Detecting Mary Queen of Scots” and “Arguments for execution” to help you make your argument .You can use your secondary source as a “springboard” to raise a question or issue that you will analyze or as an “expert witness” providing the context you need to know in making your argument. Types of thesis questions you might have about the primary source might include, for example, • What rhetorical skills are the writers using in their letters to authority figures and why? (For example, think about why the writer opens the piece the way they do, what type of argument do they make, who they anticipate will be reading this). o How does the letter/poem writer create an identity or “ethos” for themselves? o What is the purpose/ function of this letter/ poem? o Does the poem confirm or subvert expected conventions for that genre? • In writing about women, how are women imagined and presented?