HW10 due 5/4: Essay Evaluation Response

May 1, 2015 By

1. Here are the proper steps to respond to your peer evaluation:

  • First, HIGHLIGHT any feedback you would like to challenge. This includes feedback on essay and the feedback written on the evaluation form.
  • Then, you must defend EVERY challenge! This response must be typed.
  • Finally, now you score yourself on the same rubric your peer used. Obviously, use a different colored ink. Be thoughtful and honest in your score. Then, write YOUR score and your PEER’S score on the front of your essay. Place the two scores right next to each other in the upper right hand corner of the first page–your score on the left and your peer’s on the right.

HW10 due 2/10: SH5 Thesis Posting

February 9, 2015 By

1. Class Forum–Post your Slaughterhouse Five thesis.

2. Slaughterhouse Five Essay Process–On Thursday you should have your topic sentences typed and you should have relevant supporting evidence. I would encourage you to spend some time tonight tracking down evidence that is relevant to your thesis. Also, feel free to tweak your thesis as necessary.

3. Tomorrow, we start The Alchemist so please bring in your copy!

HW10 due 2/9: SH5 Thesis Process/Thesis

February 6, 2015 By

1. Slaughterhouse Five–This weekend revisit your class forum and choose one of the posted questions that you think will lead to a compelling thesis. So, you can choose any question and use that question. Feel free to tweak any question to your liking. After you have chosen a question, develop an answer to that question. Ultimately, your answer should be the root of your thesis, an argument! Think about parts of the novel that will be necessary to answering the question. These parts (i.e. devices, elements) become your points of analysis.

So, on Monday here’s exactly what I want to see:

  • On one sheet of paper, your typed question  followed by a thesis statement (that would be a response to that question).
  • On another sheet of paper, the handwritten process that led you to your thesis.

2. We begin The Alchemist on Monday!

3. Review your class vocabulary!

HW10 due 2/4: Slaughterhouse Five and More

February 3, 2015 By

1. Writing Workshop–In preparation for your SH5 thesis, craft a discussion question whose answer would be a thesis. Remember, begin this process by choosing a subject to focus your question on (think of the examples from the end of class). A sample question:

It has been suggested that Vonnegut uses supporting characters (i.e. Edgar Derby, Paul Lazarro, and Roland Weary) to portray the modern American psychological paradigm. Further, this paradigm creates the socio/political atmosphere necessary to fuel the war machine. How do the supporting characters in V’s SH5 help to shape the 20th Century American mindset necessary to the war effort? (This question is clearly focused on the subject of V’s use of supporting characters)

I want to see the process leading up to your question! Keep your chosen evidence in mind (homework from last week) when crafting your question.

2. Class Forum–1984 Skeleton Essay

2. Class Vocab–Print out and have in class on Tuesday.

3. The Alchemist–This is the translation of The Alchemist that we will use if you are interested in buying your own copy.

 

HW10 due 12/22: Slaughterhouse Five and 1984 Theses

December 19, 2014 By

1. Slaughterhouse Five–Read and annotate Chapter One! Get ready for a wild literary ride!
2. 1984 Thesis–You have had opportunities to gather your thoughts around various Points of Analysis combinations. This weekend, working with the points of analysis that you already written about or new ones (now that you are finished with the novel), you are to come up with TWO compelling thesis statements. Below you will see two examples, one with an in-text so what and one with an out-of-text so what. Don’t worry so much about whether your so what is in or out of text (we will talk more about that in the new week).

 

  • In-Text: In 1984, George Orwell’s juxtaposition of the Prole Woman with Julia creates the internal, ethical conflict necessary for Winston’s final betrayal and his subsequent love of Big Brother.
  • Out-of-Text: In 1984, the Party’s reliance on mental, emotional, and intellectual manipulation within the outer party as opposed to the Proles leads to the self-deception necessary for the inherently dehumanized nature of historical hierarchical societies.

Both thesis statements SHOULD BE TYPED.  HOWEVER, I am most interested in the PROCESS leading up to each thesis. So, I expect you to bring in the process for each. That process should reflect great effort and thought. Again, bring in the HANDWRITTEN process as well. Remember, we want to have a rocking thesis by Wednesday so we have nothing to fret over during the upcoming break.

 

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