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AP Literature and Composition “It’s a Thesis Statement Tuesday!” January 14, 2014 Mr. Houghteling

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AP Literature and Composition

“It’s a Thesis Statement Tuesday!”January 14, 2014Mr. Houghteling

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AGENDA

•Anti-suffrage postcards.

•Unpacking the prompt

•Prewriting for your essay

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Kate Chopin – Analyzing through historical reference…

Pull quotes from the novel that relate to any of the points we’ve just listed. Write down the quote and page number. Find a minimum of 4 quotes.

Write: How does Kate Chopin handle the tension of the emerging women’s suffrage movement through the characters and situations in The Awakening? Which side do you think she would have been on, given the sympathies we do/don’t feel for particular characters in the novel?

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Unpacking the Prompt•Get in groups of four.•Each group is assigned ONE

prompt to work on, using the card given as your assignment.

•Use your analytical paraphrasing skills to discern exactly what the prompt is asking the writer to accomplish.

•After unpacking, create a claim or thesis statement from which to plan your essay.

•Report out to the rest of class.

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Group Responsibilities•Leader: Make sure group members are on-task and timely.

•Reader / Reporter: Read prompt, identify difficult vocabulary, report out to class.

•Recorder: Write down “unpacking” notes and claims that may be formed into thesis statements.

•Researcher: Look for and present quotes from the novel that may support claims or thesis statements and share with group.

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1. In Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess "That outward existence which conforms, the inward life that questions." In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who outwardly conforms while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.

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2. Morally ambiguous characters -- characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good -- are at the heart of many works of literature. Choose a novel or play in which a morally ambiguous character plays a pivotal role. Then write an essay in which you explain how the character can be viewed as morally ambiguous and why his or her moral ambiguity is significant to the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.

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3. The eighteenth-century British novelist Laurence Sterne wrote, "No body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man's mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time.”

From a novel or play choose a character (not necessarily the protagonist) whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences. Then, in a well-organized essay, identify each of the two conflicting forces and explain how this conflict with one character illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. You may use one of the novels or plays listed below or another novel or work of similar literary quality.

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4. The British novelist Fay Weldon offers this observation about happy endings. "The writers, I do believe, who get the best and most lasting response from their readers are the writers who offer a happy ending through moral development. By a happy ending, I do not mean mere fortunate events -- a marriage or a last minute rescue from death -- but some kind of spiritual reassessment or moral reconciliation, even with the self, even at death." Choose a novel or play that has the kind of ending Weldon describes. In a well-written essay, identify the "spiritual reassessment or moral reconciliation" evident in the ending and explain its significance in the work as a whole.

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HOMEWORK•Do prewriting for your essay:

▫This may include creating bullet lists of ideas, outlining, drafting thesis statements, and pulling appropriate quotations from The Awakening.

▫You may bring this work to class tomorrow.

▫You will write your essays in class: you will only have 40 minutes in which to write your essay, so it will behoove you to complete your prewriting tonight.