Essay Example Reminders

Let's say you had this prompt:

Many writers use a country setting to establish values within a work of literature. For example, the country may be a place of virtue and peace or one of primitivism and ignorance. Choose a novel or play in which such a setting plays a significant role. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the country setting functions in the work as a whole.

Here are sample responses to get your navigational bearings:

• Example: 06 Sample Responses Q3

Week 29, Block Day

 I. Essay (45 min.)

• The substitute will distribute your prompt after the bell rings.
• You may have paper, pens, and any of your own paper notes or a paper book out.  You may not have a digital device/iPad out once the essay work begins. 
• Some prompts will be stricken out with an X.  Do not respond to those, obviously.  Respond to any prompt with an arrow to the left of it.  Different periods have different options.
• Of the prompts with an arrow, choose the one you will reply to.  Circle it. 

Once you finish:

II. Begin reading A Tale of Two Cities (it is on the desk).  We will read the beginning of this novel and the beginning of Heart of Darkness later.  You will then choose which book you will finish.  If you read both, you will receive extra credit. 
  

HW:

• Out of Class Experience: The Tempest (not what we watched together; see the entire play, please)
  
• All Classes: Annotate One Works Cited Entry (Three due next block day)

For the Class Essay

Make a study card on paper for the essay.

Bring your paper, annotated book for the essay.

Wednesday

See you in the theater for The Tempest.

Tuesday, 3/1: Quiz and Such

Open

• Just For Fun...Maybe: Are We Politically Challenged?

Review:

* Chiasmus:

• “Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.”
• “Love as if you would one day hate,
  and hate as if you would one day love.”
• “Bad men live that they may eat and drink,
  whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” – Socrates (5th Century B.C.)

* Conduplicatio or anaphora:

• “O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?”

* Antithesis

• “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.” 
• “To err is human; to forgive divine.”

* Quiz

• I Check Your Journal

HW: Study this Annotated Bibliography Sample Form and Content.  We will use Purdue as our guide. Your rough draft of five annotations is due next week on block day.