Unlike most essays you have written, this essay is a collaborative effort. The entire group is responsible for determining how you plan to organize your essay on imagery:

1. By specific image strands, such as animals, blood, sickness, metal, day/night, or the storm and its portents.

2. By a single image strand as it applies to specific characters, such as Caesar, Mark Antony, Cassius, Brutus, the conspirators, the mob.

3. By a specific major character, analyzing the most relevant or significant images associated with that specific character.

4. By a trend in the effect of images as associated with the most important specific events in the play.

5. By some other logical method of approaching the subject, as approved by the teacher.

As a group you will write an introduction which explains what imagery is and which clearly states the focus of your essay, with an emphasis always on the effect of the images. In other words, do not merely list every image, but consider, analyze, and interpret the effect of the image. Obviously, there is a vast difference in comparing a person to a rose or a weed, an eagle or a sparrow, an alley cat or a lion As always, your introduction should end in your thesis sentence.

Each member of your group will then be responsible for writing a single body paragraph with a topic sentence. Each body paragraph should include a minimum of three integrated quotes. More would be better. The more members in your group, the more body paragraphs. You sink or rise together. If one of your members cannot cite properly, you all get penalized.

Finally, the group writes a conclusion which makes a final point about the effect of the imagery you have discussed in your paper.

As a final step, write a cover page which (1) includes an interesting title, (2) states your group's thesis, (3) states each body paragraph topic sentence with author in parentheses, and finally (4) shows that everyone has signed off on the paper as a proofreader/editor.