3RD 9 weeks  2017

You have survived the Fall semester of your junior year! Congratulations!  You have survived the Fall semester of your junior year! If you did well, PUSH yourself to work smarter during the Spring semester. If you did not do well, START TODAY to make the Spring semester better for you.

Now is not the time to GIVE UP OR GIVE IN! WHY?

3RD 9 WEEKS OVERVIEW WHAT IS A RESEARCH PAPER? THIS 9 WEEKS MAJOR PROJECT WILL BE THE RESEARCH PAPER DUE FEBRUARY 24 WHAT IS A RESEARCH PAPER? A substantial piece of academic writing, usually done as a requirement for a class, in which the author does independent research into a topic and writes a description of the findings of that research. RESEARCHING FOR YOUR PAPER WILL TAKE UP A LOT OF YOUR TIME INSIDE & OUTSIDE OF CLASS Since we will be working on other curriculum during this time so DO NOT PROCRASTINATE!

Requirements: 1. MUST BE 4 FULL PAGES LONG 2 Requirements: 1.      MUST BE 4 FULL PAGES LONG 2.      SHOULD BE 5 PARAGRAPHS dOUBLE-SPACED 3.      12 POINT tIMES NEW rOMAN FONT  (INCLUDING HEADING & TITLE) 4.      MUST BE IN PROPER MLA FORMAT 5.      MUST APPROPRIATELY CITE TEXTBOOK & AT LEAST TWO SECONDARY SOURCES (FROM APPROVED DATABASES ONLY) ON YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE.

RESEARCH PAPER TIMELINE ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE TEACHER APPROVE SS CHOICE     (DG) FRIDAY, JAN 25, 2017 ANALYSIS QUESTIONS    (DG) FRIDAY, JAN 27, 2017 THESIS STATEMENT         (DG) TUESDAY,JAN 31, 2017 OUTLINE     (MG) FRIDAY, FEB 3, 2017 ROUGH DRAFT DUE INTO TURNITIN @ 7:30 AM      (DG) FRIDAY, FEB 10, 2017 TEACHER/STUDENT CONFERENCES      (DG) FRIDAY FEB 10 - TUESDAY FEB 14 RESEARCH PAPER FINAL DRAFT INTO TURNITIN @7:30 AM    (MG) FRIDAY FEB 24

EXPECTATIONS Read your chosen short story & answer the short story analysis questions. Locate sources and make T-notes with citations on author, theme, characters, setting or other literary elements. Make T-notes with quotes from your story to match comments from the literary criticism.       * If you are absent, you will have to go to the library on your own  time or use the library databases from home to get your sources.  Complete EACH STEP of the writing process ON TIME to get needed & constructive feedback BEFORE the next section is due. The research paper WILL BE YOUR ANALYSIS of a Short Story explaining the effect that an author's environment (historical events AND/OR social, economic, political issues) had on their writing (focusing on the story you selected).

Notes on getting to a good thesis statement Developing your thesis in a literary analysis paper: State a relevant theme of the work in a complete sentence (What is one of the implications about the world or about our lives that the story suggests to the readers? What does the reader learn about life through the reading of the literary work?) Example: People often cling thoughtlessly to outdated traditions in spite of tragic consequences. (a central theme of "The Lottery") Think about how one aspect of the short story (e.g. the author's point of view, the change in a particular character, the presence of a certain symbolic element) moves the readers toward grasping that theme. In other words, what is the relationship between the particular aspects you are analyzing and one of the story's specific themes? Craft a one sentence thesis that expresses this relationship between the literary elements, theme and how the author's environment effected the work you selected to analyze. If you are having problems writing your thesis statement, see me or visit the Writing Center in E 130 before and after school on Tuesdays & Thursdays starting January 10, 2017.

Rough draft reminders Thesis statements must be LAST SENTENCE of the INTRODUCTION paragraph. All body paragraphs should be at least 6-8 sentences long. All body paragraphs must have a TOPIC SENTENCE AND a CONCLUSION SENTENCE of your own.  Use parenthetical citations for all quotes and paraphrases from secondary sources. DO NOT use first or second person pronouns (no "I", "we", "us", or "you")

Directions for creating a Works cited page Set Double-spacing: Click on Page Layout Click on the arrow in the box of the bottom right corner where it says "spacing" Click OK Exit Hanging indentations on Works Cited page: Click on the arrow in the box of the bottom right corner where is says "Spacing" Click on arrow under the word "Special" and select "Hanging" Click OK Exit TIP: Alphabetize your sources by the author's last name and type them exactly as they appear on T-Notes.

Works Cited Page Example

ANY QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS dO DO NOT PRETEND YOU READ THE STORY READ THE STORY YOU SELECTED REFER TO THE CALENDAR WEEKLY ATTEND CLASS REGULARLY ASK FOR HELP FROM TEACHER OR WRITING CENTER IF YOU GET CONFUSED  TURN IN EACH ASSIGNMENT ON TIME PRETEND YOU READ THE STORY LOSE OR MISPLACE YOUR CALENDAR MISS CLASS FREQUENTLY (DUE DATE WILL NOT BE CHANGED) THINK YOU ARE GOING TO "FIGURE IT OUT" ON YOUR OWN DON'T TURN IN THE WORK UNTIL THE FINAL DRAFT ANY QUESTIONS?