ESSAY

Goal: Students will discuss and analyze the theme of the story

Teacher/ students will review their notes/ inferences

-Students will answer the following questions:

DEADLINES:
Paragraph 1 of essay is due today on www.turnitin.com

Tuesday, 11/24- turn in your rough draft to www.turnitin.com

Essay:

Quotation analysis: 

Hurst wrote, "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death."  

 How does this author use this quote to springboard his concept of "pride" throughout the story?  (If you look closely, you will see that the author refers to pride several times after this quote.  Each time, he is referring back to the original quote.)  

**To answer this question, you must locate the original quote listed above.  Next, find several references of "Pride."  Why does the author continuously refer to pride throughout the story?  What does pride mean to him?

Explain the quote using examples from the story.

(You may write in first or third person.  If you use first person, you will be writing from the narrator's point of view.....You are the narrator)

This should be a 1 1/2 - 2 page entry. 

Remember, you are explaining the quote and analyzing the mind frame of the narrator.

Worksheet:

Students will complete structure worksheet

**Journal and worksheet - due on Friday

Closure:  How does the narrator's pride influence his expectations of his brother?
Assessment:  Discussion/ Questions/ chart/ worksheet

Standards: 

R11.B.1: Understand components within and between texts.

R11.B.2: Standard - 1.2.10.D: Analyze inferences and draw conclusions, citing textual support, based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

Understand fiction appropriate to grade level.

R11.A.2: Understand nonfiction appropriate to grade level.

-Analyze inferences and draw conclusions based on text

-Analyze the effectiveness of figurative language

Student Name: ___________________________ 

5 Paragraph Essay

INTRODUCTION

Write a sentence that will capture your audience’s attention (motivator). ____________________________________________________________________________________ 

Write your brief transitional background information: ____________________________________________________________________________________  ____________________________________________________________________________________ 

Write your thesis statement

. ________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________________ 

Write the three parts of your blueprint either in one or three sentences

. ________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________________ 

Body Paragraph 1

Topic Sentence (first point in your blueprint)

  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________

3 specific examples:  Provide details and support your topic sentence/ blueprint

 _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________

Summary/ overview

________________  _______________________________________________________________________________

Transition to next

paragraph____________________________________________________________________________ 

Body Paragraph 2

Topic Sentence (first point in your blueprint)

  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________

3 specific examples:  Provide details and support your topic sentence/ blueprint

 _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________

Summary/ overview

________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _____

Transition to next paragraph____________________________________________________________________________ 

Body Paragraph 2

Topic Sentence (first point in your blueprint)

  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________

3 specific examples:  Provide details and support your topic sentence/ blueprint

 _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________

Summary/ overview

________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _____

Transition to next paragraph____________________________________________________________________________ 

Conclusion:

Summary of each point

Overview of thesis/ proven point

Final details

Concluding Sentence

Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis

Bell Ringer:  Thrusday: Define Pride

                     Monday, 11/16:  Should the narrator be blamed for                            Doodle's death?  Why or why not. 

            Tuesday, 11/17: Make a chart.  Indicate how Doodle            and the Ibis are similar

Tuesday Lesson:

1. Complete Bell Ringer

2. Go over Vocab Lesson 5 (Test Friday)

3. Complete the Literary and Analysis questions below

4. Work on Plot Structure for "The Scarlet Ibis"

     (make sure you have completed plot structures for the following           
     stories:  "The Necklace", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Secret Life         of Walter Mitty", "The Gift of the Magi", "The Scarlet Ibis"
5. Begin Essay

Goals:

1. Students will review"The Scarlet Ibis" on page 350 of their text. 
2. Students will review key points from their reading
3. Students will discuss  predictions made about the main Characters
4. Students will identify and discuss literary terms:  Symbolism, Plot elements, irony, tone, mood, foreshadowing

5. Students will discuss and analyze the theme of the story

Teacher/ students will review their notes/ inferences

-Students will answer the following questions:

Literary Terms:

A. From what point of view is the story told?

B. Who are the two main characters?

C. What are the the settings in the story?

D. The author has said that the setting acts like another "character" in the story.  Why is the setting so important>

E. List 2 examples of foreshadowing?

F. What does the scarlet Color symbolize in the story?

G. What does the ibis symbolize in the story?

Analysis and Comprehension:

1. Do you blame the narrator for Doodle's fate?Why or why not?

2. Why does the narrator cry when everyone congratulates him for teaching Doodle to walk?

3. What do the narrator's tears reveal about  his conflicted, or mixed, feelings?

4. What does Doodle do with the dead ibis?

5. What do you think motivates Doodle to treat the Ibis as he does?

6. Why do you think the narrator sets such demanding goals for Doodle?

7. After Doodle's death, how do you think the narrator felt about his expectations of Doodle?

8. Symbolism and Allegory: Make two columns:  Doodle   and   Ibis

fill in both sides of the chart with descriptions of Doodle and the bird's physical characteristics.  Match up similar traits.

Journal: 

Quotation analysis: 

Hurst wrote, "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death."  

 How does this author use this quote to springboard his concept of "pride" throughout the story?  (If you look closely, you will see that the author refers to pride several times after this quote.  Each time, he is referring back to the original quote.)  

**To answer this question, you must locate the original quote listed above.  Next, find several references of "Pride."  Why does the author continuously refer to pride throughout the story?  What does pride mean to him?

Explain the quote using examples from the story.

(You may write in first or third person.  If you use first person, you will be writing from the narrator's point of view.....You are the narrator)

This should be a 1 1/2 - 2 page entry. 

Remember, you are explaining the quote and analyzing the mind frame of the narrator.

Worksheet:

Students will complete structure worksheet

**Journal and worksheet - due on Friday

Closure:  How does the narrator's pride influence his expectations of his brother?
Assessment:  Discussion/ Questions/ chart/ worksheet

Standards: 

R11.B.1: Understand components within and between texts.

R11.B.2: Standard - 1.2.10.D: Analyze inferences and draw conclusions, citing textual support, based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

Understand fiction appropriate to grade level.

R11.A.2: Understand nonfiction appropriate to grade level.

-Analyze inferences and draw conclusions based on text

-Analyze the effectiveness of figurative language

Student Name: ___________________________ 

5 Paragraph Essay

INTRODUCTION

Write a sentence that will capture your audience’s attention (motivator). ____________________________________________________________________________________ 

Write your brief transitional background information: ____________________________________________________________________________________  ____________________________________________________________________________________ 

Write your thesis statement

. ________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________________ 

Write the three parts of your blueprint either in one or three sentences

. ________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________________________ 

Body Paragraph 1

Topic Sentence (first point in your blueprint)

  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________

3 specific examples:  Provide details and support your topic sentence/ blueprint

 _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________

Summary/ overview

________________  _______________________________________________________________________________

Transition to next

paragraph____________________________________________________________________________ 

Body Paragraph 2

Topic Sentence (first point in your blueprint)

  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________

3 specific examples:  Provide details and support your topic sentence/ blueprint

 _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  ________________________________________________________________

Summary/ overview

________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _____

Transition to next paragraph____________________________________________________________________________ 

Body Paragraph 2

Topic Sentence (first point in your blueprint)

  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________

3 specific examples:  Provide details and support your topic sentence/ blueprint

 _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________

Summary/ overview

________________  _________________________________________________________________________________  _____

Transition to next paragraph____________________________________________________________________________ 

Conclusion:

Summary of each point

Overview of thesis/ proven point

Final details

Concluding Sentence

5 paragraph essay

5 paragraph essay form

1. Students will review the form and technique for writing a 5 paragraph essay.
2. Students will become familiar with the various parts of the 5 paragraph essay

The five paragraph essay follows a defined format. The first paragraph introduces us to the thesis of the essay and directs us to the three main supporting subtopics. The second through fourth paragraphs are all similar in format. They individually restate the subtopics, and are developed by giving supporting information. The fifth and last paragraph restates the main thesis idea and reminds the reader of the three main supporting ideas that were developed. All of these paragraphs are important.
The introductory paragraph is the place in which the writer introduces the reader to the topic. It is important to make this a clear and limited statement. This is where the writer grabs the reader's attention. Because of its purpose, it is often the first sentence of the paragraph. It is followed by three subtopics that develop the thesis. Between this paragraph and all paragraphs of the essay, there needs to be some kind of a transition word, phrase, or sentence.Next, the body of the essay contains paragraphs two through four. They are all similarly constructed. Their topic sentences are restatements, often in original form, of the three supporting ideas presented in the first paragraph. The subtopic of each of the body paragraphs is again supported by three or more supporting sentences. These cement, in the reader's mind, the relevancy and relationship of each of the subtopics to the thesis statement.
Finally, the fifth paragraph is the summary paragraph. It is important to restate the thesis and three supporting ideas in an original and powerful manner as this is the last chance the writer has to convince the reader of the validity of the information presented. Because the purposes of the first and fifth paragraph are so similar that some writers construct them at the same time. They will edit them, as necessary, as they do with each and every part of the essay.It is important to reiterate that each of the paragraphs is joined together by a transition word, phrase or sentence. Transitions help the reader to follow the flow of the logic and sequencing. All of the essay types follow this basic transition format. However, there is more latitude with the narrative essay because of its nature.


To put it more visually, the structure model has been color coded and looks like this:
A. Opening paragraph:
Motivator
Brief Expansion of topic
Thesis Statement
Blueprint (*This contains subtopic 1, subtopic 2, and subtopic 3)
Transition
Introduction
http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/intro.html

B. Three Body Paragraphs 
*The body paragraphs will follow the order of the three blueprint ideas

Topic sentence (Each body paragraph will restate subtopics 1,2, &3)
Specific detail /Example (Several specific examples must be used for each body paragraph)
Restate concept of each paragraph's point
(TRI Paragraphs)
Transition

*Example of body paragraph 1:

Restate Subtopic One
First Supporting Detail or Example
Second Supporting Detail or Example
Third Supporting Detail or Example
Transition
Supporting Paragraphs
http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/paragraph_development.htm

C. Conclusion / Summary Paragraph
Make final points to sum up the essay. Restate / rephrase the thesis statement to stress the main topic of the essay.

Synthesis of main topic
Synthesis of Subtopic One
Synthesis of Subtopic Two
Synthesis of Subtopic Three 
Summary Paragraph
http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/intro.html

Sample 5 paragraph essay:

http://geosoc.org/schools/PASSNEW/5paraessay.htm
The Five Paragraph Essay - Here is a sample to show you hot it all fits together. (Graphic organizer)
http://www.taftcollege.edu/newTC/Academic/LiberalArts/OWL/SAMPFIVE.HTML- a second example

TIP:
-Remember, the thesis statement must be consistent throughout the paper. Each paragraph must reflect one aspect of the thesis statement. This allows for strong focus, content development, organization and adds to the style of the paper.