1. Culminating Writing Task: Vengeance & Justice

2. Think about how vengeance & justice play major roles in the following works: “The Most Dangerous Game,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “Vengeance?Justice? You need both.”
What do you think is the meaning of vengeance? Justice? Write an essay providing a definition for each and use information from any of the 3 texts to support your definitions. Use in-text citations for all textual evidence.
*This is a formal essay, so you must have a prewrite, a rough draft, and a final draft.
*If there are no in-text citations the paper will automatically receive a 0/F.

3. 1st paragraph: Introduction (4-5 sentences)
-Hook
-Introduce vengeance and justice (without giving your definitions)
-connect vengeance and justice to the works read in class
Thesis: Vengeance can be defined as _____________; whereas justice can be defined as ________________.

4. Body Paragraph 1: (5-10 sentences)
Topic sentence:*After reading several works, I believe that vengeance is defined as __________.
Reason #1
Text evidence to back up reason #1 (in-text citation)
Commentary (explain why the text evidence supports your definition of vengeance)
Reason #2
Text evidence to back up reason #2 (in-text citation)
Wrap up sentence- tie everything in paragraph together

5. Body Paragraph 2: (5-10 sentences)
Topic sentence:*After reading several works, I believe that justice is defined as __________.
Reason #1
Text evidence to back up reason #1 (in-text citation)
Commentary (explain why the text evidence supports your definition of justice)
Reason #2
Text evidence to back up reason #2 (in-text citation)
Wrap up sentence- tie everything in paragraph together

6. Conclusion (3 sentences):
Restate the thesis
Restate the claims from the body paragraph
Restate any important things mentioned in essay
End with something that makes me think