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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Thesis work with topic/element group/pairs Please sit with the people who had the same topic/element as you. Please turn in your C/c essays and reflections to the purple tote. Absent Wednesday? Check my website for make-up assignment using your quotations without column 2 .

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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  1. Thesis work withtopic/element group/pairsPlease sit with the people who had the same topic/element as you.Please turn in your C/c essays and reflections to the purple tote.Absent Wednesday? Check my website for make-up assignment using your quotations without column 2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

  2. Thesis work withtopic/element group/pairsPlease sit with the people who had the same topic/element as you.Please turn in your C/c essays and reflections to the purple tote. Absent Wednesday? Check my website for make-up assignment using your quotations without column 2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

  3. Thesis work withtopic/element group/pairsPlease sit with the people who had the same topic/element as you.Please turn in your C/c essays and reflections to the purple tote. Absent Wednesday? Check my website for make-up assignment using your quotations without column 2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

  4. A different approach to essays today • There will be no prompt other than “write an essay analyzing The Road.” You must conjure a thesis worthy of writing about • You might imagine a prompt • Write an essay in which you analyze a thematic topic in a novel. • Write an essay analyzing a novel.

  5. Literary Critical Analysis Essay • A literary critical analysis explains a work of fiction, poetry or drama by means of interpretations. The goal of a literary analysis (as with any other analysis) is to broaden and deepen your understanding of a work of literature. • Interpretations are developed by an in-depth examination of a text. An interpretation will be the thesis of your paper.

  6. Because an interpretation must be supported, the strength or weakness of your interpretation rests on the strength or weakness of your argument. In other words, you must organize a discussion that convinces the reader that your point of view is astute. • An analytical paper breaks down an issue or an idea into its component parts, evaluates the issue or idea, and presents this breakdown and evaluation to the audience through explanation and examples. Examining the different elements of a piece of literature is not an end in itself but rather a process to help youand your reader better appreciate and understand the work of literature as a whole.

  7. Technique/outline to support thesis • Take out your list of quotations with your observations, your WTJ notes, your book. • Share your ideas with your group/partner, then work together to create a meaningful thesis statement and an outline for an essay for a paper analyzing the novel. • Your thesis should address a meaning of the work as a whole in some fashion.

  8. Look at all your textual evidence you collected and quickly review it. You may notice categories within the quotes from the envelopes in order to support a thesis in multiple ways.  Once you have some "categories" and set aside duplicates, you may be able to sketch out create topic sentences. You may wish to write your thesis after this step. It may be a recursive process. Technique/outline to support thesis

  9. Content requirements - 34 Points • An amazing thesis – 10 pts. • Three rock solid topic sentences (3 pts. ea) – 9 pts. • With at least two examples/pieces of evidence to support each topic sentence + explanation of evidence -$$$ - (2 pts. ea.) – 12 pts • Pithy, wise close to make me go “Ahhh…..” - 3 pts.

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