2.) Find at least two journal articles about your chosen text and/or author, using our library databases. 3.) Decide what you will add to the ongoing academic discussion of the chosen text. Here are some ways to do this: Contend with an interpretation found in one or more of the journal articles. Connect the text to other texts, either its contemporaries or later texts. Historicize the text in context with specific events and movements at the time of its writing. Articulate your unique interpretation of the text as a 21st-century reader, considering current events, more recent texts, and significant changes in American culture. Consider a particular aspect—race, gender, psychoanalysis, symbolism, etc.—featured in the text and conduct a close reading that analyzes the role of this aspect.