Constructed Response Assignment

1. Constructed Response Assignment Write a constructed response essay about a character in the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. See rubric for details about grading.

2. Name______________ Period #____1.2 Constructed Response Rubric 25 points each : • Organization • Introductory sentence and conclusion sentence. • All sentences on topic. • MLA heading, Times New Roman, Size 12, Double Spaced. • Active Voice / appropriate diction/ sentence variety • Evidence Cited from the source. Writing based on textual evidence. • Grammar and spelling. Writing Process must be shown to be graded.

3. Name______________ Period #____1.2 Constructed Response Rubric 25 points each : • Organization • Introductory sentence and conclusion sentence. • All sentences on topic. • MLA heading, Times New Roman, Size 12, Double Spaced. • Active Voice / appropriate diction/ sentence variety • Evidence Cited from the source. Writing based on textual evidence. • Grammar and spelling. Writing Process must be shown to be graded.

4. The Main Characters • Amanda Wingfield -  Laura and Tom's mother. A proud, vivacious woman, Amanda clings fervently to memories of a vanished, genteel past. She is simultaneously admirable, charming, pitiable, and laughable. • Laura Wingfield -  Amanda's daughter and Tom's sister. Laura has a bad leg, on which she has to wear a brace, and walks with a limp. Twenty-three years old and painfully shy, she has largely withdrawn from the outside world and devotes herself to old records and her collection of glass figurines. • Tom Wingfield -  Amanda's son and Laura's brother. An aspiring poet, Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support the family. He is frustrated by the numbing routine of his job and escapes from it through movies, literature, and alcohol. • Jim O'Connor -  An old acquaintance of Tom and Laura. Jim was a popular athlete in high school and is now a shipping clerk at the shoe warehouse in which Tom works. He is unwaveringly devoted to goals of professional achievement and ideals of personal success. • Mr. Wingfield -  Amanda's husband and Laura and Tom's father. Mr. Wingfield was a handsome man who worked for a telephone company. He abandoned his family years before the action of the play and never appears onstage. His picture, however, is prominently displayed in the Wingfields' living room. 

5. Name: _____________ Period# ___Planning Page –Constructed Response: A Character Sketch

6. Find a sentence that describes your character and copy it word for word. List it in MLA format. • “You smoke too much.” (267) Explain how this describes the character. Tom smokes a lot and this bothers his mother who thinks he is wasting money.

8. Rough Draft Use your planning page to write a rough draft. Turn every “pie slice” into at least one sentence about the character you have chosen to write about. Begin with the introduction sentence and end with a truism that pertains to your essay. See guidelines for additional direction.

9. Your Constructed Response • Intro sentence (In your first sentence, name the play, the author, and the topic of your paragraph) • Write a sentence to describe what the character looks like. • Write a sentence to describe what the character does. • Write a sentence to tell about the people in the life of the character. • Write a sentence to tell about a conflict the character faces. • Write a sentence to tell your opinion of the character. • Write a sentence to talk about the end of the story and the outcome of the character or the part that player had in the outcome of the story. • Truism Note: quotes at least one sentence from this play somewhere in your response. • In “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, ___________ is a ____________ character.

10. Your NameMrs. BeasleyEnglish II13 September 2012 In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, ____________ is a ___________ character. Constructed Response: A Character Sketch

11. TYPE and TURN IN • After you write your rough draft. Type it in MLA format. (Times New Roman, size 12, double spaced. Your final copy should have a MLA heading and a title.) • Turn in in this order: • Rubric (on top) • Planning Page • Rough Draft • Typed and Edited copy.(on bottom) • Note: Please save work online in your portfolio. This is out third writing assignment in this unit; so, save as “ 3 constructed response.” Thanks.