1. Review the Evaluation chapter and sample readings for this week. I also encourage you to look ahead at the student samples in the week ahead.
   • Choose one movie, tv episode, book, or website to evaluate for your essay. Note that you are choosing a single piece, not a collection of movies, not an entire tv show, not a series of books, etc. You should choose one specific piece for this essay so that you have specific criteria and content.
   • Be sure to also think about the criteria you will use to evaluate your topic. Note that the successful student samples typically have at least 5-6 criteria.
2. Answer here: What movie, tv episode, book, or website will you be researching and writing about?
   • Midsommer- a 2019 film
3. Answer here: What criteria will you use to evaluate the piece?
   • Relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, sustainability, and psychology

Researching

1. Once you choose your topic, locate your required sources.
2. You will need to cite your primary source (the topic you are evaluating).
3. You will also need to cite at least two secondary sources (sources that will support your evaluation).
   • These can be scholarly and/or popular.
4. Answer Here: Include information about your sources. (You may have more than 3 for your essay, but only 3 are needed for this part of the assignment.)
   • Required:
     1. Source #1 MLA Works Cited Page Citation for your primary source:

Midsommar. Directed by Ari Aster, A24, 2019. Amazon Prime Video, www.amazon.com/midsommar-florance-Pugh/dp/B07TFVD9BQ . Accessed 16 October 2020

1. • 1. Source #2 MLA Works Cited Page Citation for a secondary source:

Edelstein, David. “Ari Aster’s Midsommar is an ambitious, blurry horror.” New York vulture, 3 July 2019, www.vulture.com/2019/07/midsommar-review-ari-asters-ambitious-blurry-horror-trip.html. Accessed 16 Oct. 2020

1. • 1. Source #3 MLA Works Cited Page Citation another secondary source:

Wilkinson, Alissa. “Midsommar is a brutish, nasty daylight nightmare from the director of Hereditary It will haunt you.” Vox, 20 June 2019, www.vox.com/culture/2019/18691638/midsommar-review. Accessed 16 Oct. 2020

1. • Optional:
     1. MLA Works Cited Page Citations for additional secondary sources:

“The psychological Horrors of midsommar.” Nerdbot, 5 July 2019, www.nerdbot.com/2019/07/05/the -psychological-horror-of-midsommar/. Accessed 17 Oct 2020

Composing an Outline

1. For your evaluation essay, you will make an overall judgment of the piece. As your book notes, “It is important that any judgment be balanced and fair. Seldom is something all good or all bad. A fair evaluation need not be all positive of all negative; it may acknowledge both strengths and weaknesses.” Likewise, you will probably have both positive and negative judgments based on your criteria.
2. If available, I encourage you to also review the essay assignment sheet and sample essay innext week’s folder so that you have an idea of what the final version of this essay will need to include while you prepare the outline.
3. Your outline should be bulleted like the one below.
4. Please reference the sample outline for additional help here. Organization is important in this essay.
   • Focus on one criterion per body paragraph.

5. Answer here: Complete the outline below.

• Thesis statement:(include your thesis here)

Although some people do not like psychological-thrillers or gory movies,Midsommar is a must watch. It is a breakup movie dressed in the clothes of a folk horror film. When watched, there is many things that run though one’s mind, the mind will race and race, while trying to figure out what will happen next.

It should include your overall evaluation, or judgment, of the piece.

• It should include the criteria being used to evaluate the piece.
• It must be a complete sentence
• It should not use 1^st or 2^nd person
• It should not “announce” the thesis

• Criteria 1: Expressing Emotions (negative)
  • After Dani’s parents/sister do not answer her she worries
    • Dani’s boyfriend dismisses her anxieties
  • Dani’s family passed away due to murder/suicide
    • Christian (Dani’s bf) must now stay with her
  • Dani fights her emotions, but then breaks down
  • Dani attempts to bury her sadness
• Isolating herself
• Escaping elsewhere to cry alone
• Criteria 2: Dani’s personality
  • Christian and her relationship starts off rocky
  • Christian feels duty to bond to invite
  • Christians/ Dani’s relationship was toxic
  • Christian and his buddies are plotting the breakup.
• Criteria 3: toxic relationship (negative)
  • Christian dismisses her feelings throughout the movie
  • Christian and his friends are not empathetic to Dani’s worries.
  • Instead of him ending the relationship he lets it keep going on while distancing himself from Dani
  • Christian sees Dani’s trauma as burdens
  • Treated Dani as “the needy, emotionalgirlfriend”
• Criteria 4: emotional abuse (negative)
  • Dani lives with mental illness
• Anxiety
• depression
  • Dani was attracted to Christian b/c of his “strong mental state”
  • Christian was gaslights her.
• Criteria 5: sustainability
  • Harga’s way of life
  • Harga is free of ambiguities/ disappointments
  • Dani decides to stay there
• No Remorse
• No Sorrow
• Criteria 6: psychology
  • Christian is passive-aggressive
• Manipulative, unassertive
  • Dani is also passive-agressive
• Needs constant reassurance over everything that she does but pushes him for the truth in her own “healthy way”
  • Empathetic
• After Christian cheats on her, she is inconsolable and all the women that surround her drop to the floor and yell and cry with her, that is what she needed from Christian but that never happened so the women mocking her made her feel like one of them by them empathying with her and putting themselves in her shoes.

Note:You may vary the number of criteria and supporting details as needed. Just be sure you have enough criteria to support your thesis and enough specific information to fully develop each criterion.