Assignment for November 1st

Folks,

Please bring your final draft of Hatchet to class on Tuesday. You should have five paragraphs in your essay.

Your first paragraph is the introduction.
1. Begin with the author, genre, title, and setting.
2. In one or two sentences, summarize the plot.
3. Give three examples of literary elements used in the piece.
4. Use a transition sentence to set up your argument.
5. Place your thesis statement: A claim with a roadmap. See other entries on the blog for more information if you have forgotten.


Your second, third, and fourth paragraphs will follow the standard academic paragraphs we have been working on all semester.
1. Make a claim. This should be one of the examples in your introductory paragraph.
2. Define or explain what you mean.
3. Provide textual evidence.
4. Interpret the evidence.
5. Conclude your paragraph.

Your last paragraph is your conclusion. Summarize your overall argument.


Make sure your paper is double-spaced and in MLA format.


The only other assignment you have for this week is to read the first five chapters of The Giver. The paper due at the end of November will be longer. It will need to be 2-3 pages long. I suggest that you read closely and take good notes. Perhaps you may want to begin thinking of the direction of your next paper. You will do an in-depth literary analysis and use one other source other than the book to establish your argument. You may choose to do a compare/contrast of governments, analyze the rhetoric used in the story and rhetoric used in politics today, look at the theme of individuality, etc. I will be pretty open to your topic here, but it must have three examples from the text that you will analyze. For your outside source, you can use any research to help you. If you are looking at comparing the rhetoric, you would need to provide an example from something more current. If you are wanting to explore dystopian literature and another similar novel, you will need to use the other novel as the other text.

See you next week!