“TITLE” • Petrarchan Sonnet • Octave, followed by a sestet (we will go over this format later.) • Octave: The Problem. Rhyme Scheme – ABBA ABBA • Sestet: The Resolution. Rhyme Scheme – CDE CDE • The sonnet will set up the “problem” or “topic” set up by your research in the octave. You will then provide a “resolution” in your sestet.

RESEARCH PAPER

INTRODUCTION • One paragraph introduction. • Hook • Thesis • How will you prove this thesis? • Example thesis: “In Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, the horrific event of a shipwreck offers characters a chance at a new life. Redemption is found even in a character’s darkest hour.”

Twelfth Night Paragraph 1 • Topic sentence that explains what you will be exploring in this paragraph. • Two quotes from Twelfth Night that support your topic sentence and, ultimately, your thesis. • Analysis • Paragraph rules still apply: three details, with two pieces of “proof” for each detail.

QUOTES • In Act I, the Captain says to Viola, “It is perchance that you yourself were saved” (1.2.6). • Sebastian comments on the “fate” that is forcing him to part from Antonio, “My stars shine darkly over me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone . . .” (2.1.2-4).

Twelfth Night Paragraph 2 • Topic sentence that explains what you will be exploring in this paragraph. • Two quotes from a secondary source about Twelfth Night that support your topic sentence and, ultimately, your thesis. • Analysis • Paragraph rules still apply: three details, with two pieces of “proof” for each detail.

QUOTES • “An urgent sense that life must be lived well because it is short often underlies Shakespeare’s plays, and this principle, at least in part, accounts for the seriousness with which we regard Shakespeare’s comedies” (Marciano 3). • “Viola refuses to luxuriate in her sorrow and waste the remainder of her life” (Marciano 8).

Robinson Crusoe Paragraph 1 • Outside Novel • Topic sentence that explains what you will be exploring in this paragraph. • Two quotes from Robinson Crusoe that support your topic sentence and, ultimately, your thesis. • Analysis • Paragraph rules still apply: three details, with two pieces of “proof” for each detail.

QUOTES • “In a word, as my Life was a Life of Sorrow, one way, so it was a Life of Mercy, another; and I wanted nothing to make it a Life of Comfort, but to be able to make my Sense of God's Goodness to me, and Care over me in this Condition” (Crusoe 97). • “Thus we never see the true State of our Condition, till it is illustrated to us by its Contraries; nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it” (Crusoe 102).

Robinson Crusoe Paragraph 2 • Topic sentence that explains what you will be exploring in this paragraph. • Two quotes from a secondary source about Robinson Crusoe that support your topic sentence and, ultimately, your thesis. • Analysis • Paragraph rules still apply: three details, with two pieces of “proof” for each detail.

QUOTES • “Crusoe undergoes considerable self-discovery” (Novak 456). • “Here he somehow makes contact with a nature that had previously been either dangerous or uncooperative, and his fantasy has direct meaning for his life on the island” (Novak 464).

Secondary Source #3 • Topic sentence that explains what you will be exploring in this paragraph. • Two quotes from a secondary source about that support your topic sentence and, ultimately, your thesis. • Analysis • Paragraph rules still apply: three details, with two pieces of “proof” for each detail. • Adds further investigation to your study.

QUOTES • “Romance, satire, and the literature of adventure have always relied upon the device of the shipwreck to isolate a character and place him in a new setting” (Landow 642). • “The ship provides a fitting image of the insecurity of human life” (Landow 648).

CONCLUSION • Restate your thesis. • How did you prove your thesis? • How do your primary and secondary sources work together to answer your thesis? • Hook? Or, call to action?

WORKS CITED(Double-Spaced) Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. 1719. Hollywood, FL: Simon & Brown, 2011. Print. Landow, George P. “’Swim or Drown’: Carlyle’s World of Shipwrecks, Castaways, and Stranded Voyagers.” Studies in English Literature 15.4 (1975): 641-656. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. Marciano, Lisa. “The Serious Comedy of Twelfth Night: The Dark Didacticism in Illyria.” Renascence 56.1 (2003): 3-20. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. Novak, Maximillian E. “The Cave and the Grotto: Realist Form and Robinson Crusoe’s Imagined Interiors.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 20.3 (2008): 445-468. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1996. Print.

“TITLE” • Elizabethan Sonnet • Four quatrains followed by a couplet (we will go over this format later.) • Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG • The sonnet will expand on your theme/thesis. What did you learn? How can you creatively express your main idea in poetic form? • The couplet usually contains a “twist” or a “new look” on the theme.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER • Your completed graphic organizer will finish out your Research Paper Project. • Congratulations on a fabulous quarter!!!

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