Friday, October 13, 2017

**FALL BREAK REMINDERS and ASSIGNMENTS DUE MON. 10/23

1st/3rd British Lit./Comp.

**NO HW DUE MON. 10/23


2nd Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

HW DUE MON. 10/23:

Individually, take your groups' work from this past week in class and COMPOSE AN ESSAY ROUGH DRAFT using the examples and analysis you created from your annotations of The Road
--this should come together extremely quickly, and your COMPLETED ROUGH DRAFT is due MON. 10/23 after fall break!

**ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS AND WRITING CHECKLIST FOR COMPLETION:
--TAKE YOUR MAIN TOPIC (DEAD BODIES, ASH, GOOD ROAD vs. BAD ROAD, MAN'S FEAR OF LOSING THE BOY, etc.): *THIS IS OBVIOUSLY YOUR PROMPT FOR THE PAPER
--WRITE AN INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH THAT TELLS WHAT YOUR PAPER IS ABOUT (DO NOT GIVE A SUMMARY!) DO NOT FORGET YOUR THESIS (*THIS FIRST THESIS WILL BE KNOWN AS A 'WORKING THESIS')

--YOUR BODY PARAGRAPHS COME FROM YOUR CATEGORIES AND QUOTES (*THE TOPIC SENTENCE WOULD BE: "THE USE OF ASH IN THE TEXT IS SOMETIMES VIEWED AS ___")

--AFTER YOUR TOPIC SENTENCE, INCLUDE YOUR EVIDENCE (THIS IS YOUR QUOTE THAT BEST PROVES YOUR CLAIM SENTENCE)
--AFTER YOUR EVIDENCE, YOU MUST ANALYZE WHAT YOUR QUOTE IS SAYING, AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT IN PROVING YOUR CLAIM
--AFTER YOUR ANALYSIS, YOU WILL WRITE YOUR CONNECTION IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH: (ALSO CALLED 'THE TRANSITION SENTENCE')

--NEXT PARAGRAPH, GIVE A CLAIM THAT SHOWS HOW YOU MOVED FROM ONE POINT TO THE NEXT

**ESSAY STYLE/FORMAT REQUIREMENTS TO REMEMBER:
--compose the essay in 8th ed. MLA STYLE, all standard requirements
--must have a MINIMUM of THREE (3) BODY PARAGRAPHS
--each BODY PARAGRAPH needs to include a MINIMUM of SEVEN (7) sentences
--include a Work Cited entry for The Road (*which we completed together in class this week)

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