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Release of responsibility • Second paper (Frankenstein): We outline the class paper and write the introduction together as a class (on the computer projected). We do the same white board activities that have already been described. We discuss the importance of the thesis statement. They write their own essay but have to use the Schaffer model of concrete details and commentary. I provide packet/outline. • Assignment: Two page double-spaced paper with in text citation. NCTE, Boston 2013
Release of responsibility • Third paper (The Hobbit): Students create their own introduction and thesis statements (based on the themes we have identified as a class—they are listed on the board). Before they begin writing they have to have me initial their thesis statements(simple flow chart). I usually have about half of the students rewrite theirs. They outline their paper and have to write at least one paragraph using the Schaffer model handout. • Assignment: Two page double-spaced paper with in text citation. NCTE, Boston 2013
Release of responsibility • Fourth paper (Research paper): This is a completely separate process. • Assignment: Three pages double-spaced, four sources. • Fifth paper (F. 451): Students write a compare/contrast essay based on The Cave and Fahrenheit 451. I give them lots of examples that they have to model. I have attached a simple handout that I use. Students create their own introduction and thesis statements (based on the themes we have identified as a class—they are listed on the board). Before they begin writing they have to have me initial their thesis statements. I usually have about half of the students rewrite theirs. They simply come up to me in class and I quickly talk with them. They do not have to write any of their paragraphs using the Schaffer model. • Assignment: Three page double-spaced paper with in-text citation. • For their six and seventh papers they are writing their own essays and they are required to be three to four pages. NCTE, Boston 2013
High-Interest Research Paper Examples • Becoming Adolf by Rich Cohen (Vanity Fair) “Hitler's Toothbrush mustache is one of the most powerful symbols of the last century, an inch of hair that represents infinite evil. The author had his reasons for deciding to wear one.” • Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's by (CNN Money) “Apple's retail stores aren't the only place where lines form these days. It's 7:30 on a July morning, and already a crowd has gathered for the opening of Trader Joe's newest outpost, in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.” • The End of Men by Hanna Rosin and Beth Kowitt(The Atlantic) “Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way— and its vast cultural consequences.”
The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe—pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man.[1] Before that, the most popular mustache in Germany and Austria had been the sort worn by the royals. It was called the Kaiser, and it was elaborate. It was perfumed, styled, teased and trained. It turned up at the ends. It was the old, monarchical world that was about to be crushed by the rising tide of assembly-line America. In other words, in the case of Hitler and his 'stache, America faced an extreme case of blowback. By the beginning of the century, it had been taken up by enough Germans to draw notice in the foreign press. In 1907, The New York Times chronicled a growing distaste for the import under the headline "toothbrush" mustache: german women resent its usurpation of the "kaiserbart."
Sidney Awards in connection with The Sidney Hillman Foundation Research is everywhere. In an attempt to help you identify what you want to focus your research paper and podcast on, I want to expose you to the vast array of research-based writing that goes viral on a yearly basis. Every year David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times, publishes the Sidney Awards in connection with The Sidney Hillman Foundation; a foundation that honors writers who focus on social justice and public policy. These articles are some of the best magazine essays published throughout the year—and are research based! These high-interest essays may help you realize that research can be cool, interesting, and relevant. You can find a list of the articles from 2004-2012 here: https://sites.google.com/site/thesidneyawards/the-essay-list. To find the last few years you can go to NYTs and query Brooks, Sidney Awards.
Assignment: For your assignment, you need to browse through the articles and pick one that interests you. After you have read the article of your choice please complete the following analysis: write a one page double-spaced reflection on the depth and complexity of the analytical writing and research that the writer provided. Please feel free to reflect on aspects of the writing and content that you believe lead this piece to be a viral article, and how you could incorporate techniques into your own paper.
Student Example“The Internet’s Deepest, Darkest Secret” The Deep Web is a part of the internet, but not the part that you or I know; the Surface Net. The reality between the Surface Net and the Deep Web is often been compared to the tip of the iceberg or a net atop the surface of the ocean. According to Bright Planet, a search organization that specializes in Deep Web content extraction, the Deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents in context to the one billion of the Surface Web. Most of the Deep Web content is illegal in a number of different ways, but even with the knowledge that it is illegal, people aren’t afraid of using the Deep Web and openly talking about their illegal activities and purchases. Alex, a student from London, has used a well known site on the Deep Web called the Silk Road for purchasing illegal drugs and says that, “[He’s] not scared of getting caught because if the police found it [he] would just say [he] had no idea who had sent it to [him]. There’s no proof of purchase anywhere. It’s easy.” It would appear that the key to being successful on the Deep Web is keeping your identity a secret and it seems to be almost infant-like in its level of difficulty but the police are also using the anonymity of the Deep Web to crack down on web crime and have successfully shut down an online armory.
