ABSENCES: You need to be prepared if you miss a class. Check the blog. Call homework buddies. Come in at lunch. Do not assume that because you missed a class, you are not RESPONSIBLE for the work. It is the learning and the practice that you need so DO all work missed. Be sure to ask for help when you don't understand something.
NOT UNDERSTANDING SOMETHING IS TOTALLY NORMAL.
DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT???? TOTALLY ABNORMAL.
Remember:
Paragraphs are marked for content (insight: your ideas), structure (literary must-haves), and writing style (vocabulary, sentence variety, length, sufficient explanation of your views, etc).
Have something important to say (re-read the sheet we went over in class for ideas) about the book.
Be able to show why you think so by using evidence from the novel, cite your quotations well and incorporate them into your sentence.
Use all the prep work you did today to be ready for tomorrow:
1. Literary must-have list. Memorize it.
2. Use the #3 style for making a quote from the book part of your sentence.
3. Cite correctly, double or triple quotation marks and page numbers.
4. Prepare the quotations by thinking about what they suggest. Read between the lines. Know what technique is being used: irony, juxtaposition, pathetic fallacy etc.
The question is
In a literary paragraph of 300 to 500 words, discuss how the author suggests that the real beast or creature on the island is the boys themselves.
After you have chosen your three quotations/techniques, and written down your ideas, you are ready to create a thesis.
Sample:
In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the real beast is symbolized by the boys because their innocence has been corrupted by exposure to war and they do not yet realize that imitating the adult world will have its consequences.
Tomorrow you will USE the template below to complete your paragraph:
Thesis
First Point
First Example
First explanation (explain how the example proves your thesis)
Transition (Similarly, in contrast to, additionally, as a result, consequently) etc
Second point
second example
Second explanation
Transition
Third point
Third example
Third explanation
Conclude (repeat the key points from your paragraph. Make sure they match your thesis)
Use present tense.
Use strong verbs: elucidates, exemplifies, reveals, supports, portrays, emphasizes etc
Use vocabulary words from our list: contrite, officious, ebullient, belligerent etc
Use sentence variety: long, short, medium length, start each sentence differently, avoid they, they they or the boys .... for each sentence beginning, use complex, simple and compound sentences, use subordinate clauses, which suggests that, because the boys laugh, although the island's beauty . . . , despite,
