Transcript Jane Eyre final paper rehash!

Jane Eyre final paper rehash!
Basics
• Have a proper heading: Your name, AP English 12-hour, teacher’s name, due
date. THIS IS NOT A HEADER. Upper left corner of paper. This shows up ONLY
on page 1.
• Have a header in the UPPER RIGHT HAND corner of page (last name and page
number) Don’t know how to do this? Ask! YOU WILL NEED TO INSERT A
HEADER. IT WILL SHOW UP ON EVERY PAGE.
• Formatting between paragraphs should NOT be different that the spacing in
your paper. I will help you with this!
• 12 point font, double-spaced, 1” margins, readable font (Times New Roman or
Calibri are standard) Minimum is 10 point font with .5 margins.
• Title should be simple and point to thesis directly or indirectly
• Your paper will have several paragraphs and should be about 3-4 pages long.
NO MORE THAN 5-6.
• Include author and title in the introduction; book titles are in italics.
• Final paper is due Monday, March 3 at the BEGINNING of the hour! This is a
MAJOR SUMMATIVE! Late papers will have a penalty. You will fail this class
without this paper!
Basics cont…
• Read your rubric!!!!!!!!!!!!
• You need an intro with thesis at end of intro.
• I would look at sample papers for thesis help. Your thesis
should be complex and include the overall meaning of the
book as a whole!
• You need great topic sentences that announce what you will
prove in each paragraph and section of your paper (not a basic
sentence that summarizes the plot)
• You need great transitions from idea to idea.
• You need to proofread! Watch your quotations!!!!!!!!
• Write in PRESENT TENSE!!!!!!
• This is NOT a rhetorical analysis!!!!! No need to mention
technique in this paper!
• Read the sample papers on the assign drive!!!!!
Writing about your novel
What will you say that sets your paper apart from
the rest of the papers on this book? I have to read
50 papers. Make it interesting and easy to read!
Yes, there are obvious things everyone will write
about, but how can you make your paper
interesting without making it sound like bullsh!#
You must cover the scope of your novel and I would
do it chronologically!
Answer the Prompt!
This paper is sort of like a cause and effect paper
“And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives
and characters as much as fate, destiny or any
supernatural agency.” Pauline Hopkins, Contending
Forces
Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or
geographical surroundings shape psychological or
moral traits in a character. Then write a wellorganized essay in which you analyze how
surroundings affect this character and illuminate
the meaning of the work as a whole.
Part 1---The Cause
Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or
geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits
in a character.
1. Choose ONE of the three above; you don’t need to choose
all of them.
2. Focus on psychological or moral traits.
3. Use this language in your thesis and throughout your
paper.
4. What happens to the main character in this surrounding.
This can easily become just summary. You don’t need to
include all the details, only those that are important to
shaping the character.
Part 2---the effect
Then write a well-organized essay in which you
analyze how surroundings affect this character and
illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.
1. How does the surrounding affect this character?
What does the main character do because of his
or her surroundings? (Evidence)
2. How do these events and actions reveal and
show the overall meaning of the novel? (so
what?)
3. Use language from the prompt as you analyze
the effect.
Thesis Statements:
Should include important language from the prompt! This is
your CLAIM!
Examples from Invisible Man (This is from an assignment that analyzed a chapter or two
about the this novel, but you can adapt the format to suit the scope of your paper).
Theme statement: Through unexpected events can come a rebirth of a personality.
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Basic: Through what happens to the Invisible Man, Ellison illustrates the idea that
unexpected events can result in a rebirth of a personality.
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Plausible: Through the betrayal of Bledsoe and the unfortunate events at the paint
factory, Ellison illustrates the idea that unexpected events can result in a rebirth of a
personality that leads to changes in one’s mindset and sets them on a new path.
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Better: Through Bledsoe’s betrayal of the Narrator and the unfortunate events at the
paint factory, Ellison suggests that unexpected events can result in changes to one’s
personality and new perspectives about life.
First part of sentence shows what parts of the selection I will focus on while the second part offers the overall meaning of the
novel!
Example Thesis Statements: Read and Emulate
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By subjecting Amir to cultural and circumstantial pressures, Hosseini characterizes Amir as
a desperate individual chasing love and uses this character to ultimately reveal the theme
that if one overvalues the idea of love and pursues it blindly, one may end up
compromising what they already have.
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In this book, Bronte shows the hardships of a woman in that time era to portray the
theme of finding happiness in oneself without lowering one’s morals or giving into the
world’s ways.
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Similarly, in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane’s physical surroundings at Lowood,
Thornfield and Moor House help in shaping her moral traits, enhancing the deeper
meaning that it can be difficult to stay true to oneself when one’s surroundings can have a
profound impact on personal beliefs.
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In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the monster truly emerges as a monster due to the
harsh treatment he receives from the people around him, enhancing the ideas that
people are not born villains but can become one due to the environment they are
surrounded by.
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In Charlotte Bronte’s book Jane Eyre, Bronte positions the main character, Jane, under
challenging and life-altering circumstances to portray to readers that importance of
maintaining a set of values, and sticking to those values to show your true identity.
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By placing Jane in these settings, Bronte illustrates the importance of establishing beliefs
and maintaining them even while facing difficulties so one can stay true to themselves.
Evidence
• Should be concrete.
• Should support the prompt. Don’t spend time
summarizing the text.
• Any evidence you give should be specific and well
chosen. Your grade depends on good evidence.
• You should give enough evidence to answer the
prompt. Don’t be lazy and give one quote per
paragraph. Find a balance between too little and
too much.
• Don’t use too many LONG quotes. For a paper
this size, I would shoot for NO MORE than 2 long
quotes!
Quotations
• Punctuate correctly!
• When integrating the quote, no matter how
you use it, the sentence must be
grammatically correct. It must be parallel.
• You have to set the quote up. Don’t just leave
it stranded!
• Use evidence that is concrete and shows me
what you are trying to prove.
Punctuating Brief Quotations…
Quoting a Sentence or Sentences:
Gene begins to reveal his internal war with
Finny when he says, “What was I doing up
here anyway? Why did I let Finny talk me
into stupid things like this?” (5).
1.
Notice the quote is set up
2.
Notice the comma BEFORE the quote
3.
Notice the sentence is COMPLETE after the comma
4.
Notice the first word of the quote is CAPITALIZED!
5.
Notice the page number in the ( )? Notice the punctuation?
6.
Do this!!!!
Punctuating Brief Quotations
Quoting a Fragment:
Jack is not able to kill the piglet during
their first attempt at hunting for food
“because of the enormity of the knife
descending and cutting into the living
flesh; because of the unbearable blood”
(31).
1. Again, notice how my words lead into the quote.
2. The quotation is PART of a grammatically correct sentence.
3. This is a good way to shorten longer quotes; only the important
part of the quote is included!
Quoting A Quotation
Ron said, “Dad yelled, ‘No way!’”
Golding writes, “Jack seized the conch.
‘Ralph’s right of course. There isn’t a snakething. But if there was a snake we’d hunt it
and kill it.’” (36).
Just like Leper in A Separate Peace, my brother
Shaun said, “‘You always were a savage
underneath.’”
Quotations with Omissions
(Using ellipses)
According to Gene, the faculty at Devon treated
the boys differently during the summer
session because “we reminded them of what
peace was like… of lives which were not
bound up with destruction” (10).
Use ellipses when words are omitted from the quotation. Don’t change
the context of the quotation. Keep it grammatically correct
Quotations with Brief Insertions
(Using brackets)
It is evident that Finny believes in the war
before his fall from the tree because he tells
Gene, “I’m wearing this [his pink shirt] as an
emblem. We haven’t got a flag, we can’t float
Old Glory proudly out the window. So I’m
going to wear this, as an emblem” (11).
Use brackets when you are inserting your own words into a quote
in order to make the meaning of the quote more clear and to make
it grammatically correct.
Not Integrated: Avoid this! This is what
MOST people are doing. It’s easy to fix!
Brinker becomes disillusioned with the war, and
Ralph becomes disillusioned with the glory of
being chief. “He found himself understanding the
wearisomness of this life, where every path was an
improvisation and a considerable part of one’s
walking life was spent watching one’s feet” (76).
Integrated: Do this!
In the same way that Brinker becomes disillusioned
with the war, Ralph begins to feel a sense of
disillusionment toward the glory of being chief.
Golding’s narrator begins to allude to Ralph’s
waning enjoyment of being the leader on the island
when he states, “He found himself understanding
the wearisomness of this life, where every path was
an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s
walking life was spent watching one’s feet” (76).
Methods For Inserting Brief Quotations
Final Position
For several reasons, “all of them, all except Phineas,
constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot
Lines against an enemy they thought they saw across the
frontier…” (123).
Beginning Position
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of
man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true,
wise friend called Piggy” (202), declares Golding’s
narrator at the end of his novel.
Long Quotations
Long quotations should be set off from the text.
Usually "set off" text is preceded by a colon:
George Orwell had a difficult time acting as a police officer in Lower
Burma. As demonstrated in the following excerpt from “Shooting an
Elephant,” he was frustrated by his conflicting need to maintain law and
order while remaining faithful to the idea that the Burmese had the right to
be free:
All this was perplexing and upsetting. For at that time I had
already up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the
sooner I chucked up my job and got out of it the
better. Theoretically--and secretly, of course--I was all for the
Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British. (Orwell 30)
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Notice the long quote is over 3 typed lines
Notice the long quote is indented 10 spaces (2 tabs) over
Notice there are NO quotation marks around the long quote
Notice the period comes BEFORE the ( )
Notice there is no punctuation AFTER the ( )