1. Prompt AttentionWriting About Literature From Topic to Thesis Dr. Sue Gilmore Martin Luther King Magnet School Nashville, TN Barry Gilmore Lausanne Collegiate School Memphis, TN Brenda Robinette Lausanne Collegiate School Memphis, TN

2. Prompt AttentionWriting About the Classics—in 40 Minutes 5 Ideas for Writing-on-Demand Essays about the Once and Future Classics or What I have learned from my AP Seniors

3. Prompt AttentionWriting About the Classics—in 40 Minutes 1. Responding to an on-demand prompt is a skill that develops 8 th grade expository 10 th grade state assessments AP social studies classes Literary analysis

4. Prompt AttentionWriting About the Classics—in 40 Minutes 2. It matters who is demanding: know your audience TCAP for grades 7-11 AP social studies exams College applications essays AP Language AP Literature / IB exams

5. Prompt Attention 3. They want some strategies that work. DO: Circle the tasks in the question Plan before you write Make your essay readable Notice how the punctuation (or lack of it) helps DON’T: Underline the thesis Use first person Rely on stream of consciousness Writing About the Classics—in 40 Minutes

6. Prompt Attention For example… Writing About the Classics—in 40 Minutes

7. Prompt AttentionWriting About the Classics—in 40 Minutes 4. Humor is hardest. Tone? Theme? Point of view? Diction? Detail?

8. Prompt AttentionWriting About the Classics—in 40 Minutes 5. Favorite “once and future” classics Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Pessl) Going After Cacciato (O’Brien) God of Small Things (Roy) The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)

9. Prompt AttentionCopy That!—the Student-Created Prompt Copy That! Reducing Plagiarism and Increasing Engagement Through Student-Created Prompts and Theses

10. Prompt AttentionCopy That!—the Student-Created Prompt Showing engine-uity

11. Prompt AttentionCopy That!—the Student-Created Prompt Getting off track

12. Prompt AttentionCopy That!—the Student-Created Prompt Showing engine-uity

13. Prompt Attention Puck: If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call: So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream V.i.) Copy That!—the Student-Created Prompt

14. Prompt Attention Puck: If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call: So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream V.i.) Copy That!—the Student-Created Prompt

15. Prompt Attention Puck: If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call: So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream V.i.) Copy That!—the Student-Created Prompt

16. Prompt Attention Sample student-generated questions (prompts) Does the play suggest it is okay to lie? Why is it called a “dream?” Why do both Theseus and Puck use the word “shadow”? Why are some people “pardoned” in the play? Why do only Puck and Bottom break the fourth wall? Is Puck ultimately benevolent or malicious? Copy That!—the Student-Created Prompt

17. Prompt AttentionCopy That!—the Student-Created Prompt A process for developing prompts (without the need to plagiarize) Create topics Go back to the text—find examples Discuss in pairs or groups Write a thesis Share and discuss (PINE) Write an essay

18. Prompt AttentionCopy That!—the Student-Created Prompt Sample student introduction When Puck asks us to “pardon” him at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he points out the deep irony of the play: there is no justice in Shakespeare’s comedy, poetic, legal, or otherwise. We have no more power over Puck than the humans have over the fairies, their own fates, or love itself. Shakespeare’s world seems to include justice, but it can be seen that events in MSND are decided by power, not right and wrong.

19. Prompt Attention The process in more detail… Copy That!—the Student-Created Prompt www.barrygilmore.com

20. Prompt AttentionCopy That!—the Student-Created Prompt

21. Prompt AttentionPrompts for literary text pairings And now, Brenda…