Literary Analysis Essay Unit 1 Assessment
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Unit 1 Assessment Essay Topic The story of the swan is the ultimate symbol of the American Dream in the novel. The mothers want their daughters to have all the privileges they could not, but are disappointed that this in turn means their daughters will not truly understand them. Possible Themes: American Dream, Overcoming Obstacles, Assimilation & Immigrant Identity, The Challenges of Cultural Translation Possible Symbols: Jing-mei’s pendant, Lena’s black vase, Lindo’s red candle, swan/swan feather, The Joy Luck Club, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates book Directions: Explain a symbol that reflects a theme from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tam. Analyze how that same theme is prevalent in the story “Liberty” by Julia Alvarez, the article “Immigration and Citizenship-The ‘Anchor Baby’ Debate” by Barbara Sheehan, OR “The Turtle” excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Literary Analysis Essay Unit 1 Assessment Essay Topic The story of the swan is the ultimate symbol of the American Dream in the novel. The mothers want their daughters to have all the privileges they could not, but are disappointed that this in turn means their daughters will not truly understand them. Possible Themes: American Dream, Overcoming Obstacles, Assimilation & Immigrant Identity, The Challenges of Cultural Translation Possible Symbols: Jing-mei’s pendant, Lena’s black vase, Lindo’s red candle, swan/swan feather, The Joy Luck Club, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates book Directions: Explain a symbol that reflects a theme from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tam. Analyze how that same theme is prevalent in the story “Liberty” by Julia Alvarez, the article “Immigration and Citizenship-The ‘Anchor Baby’ Debate” by Barbara Sheehan, OR “The Turtle” excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Prewriting Outline Directions: With your group, complete the following outline. It will help you organize and develop your essay. This outline will be the only resource you will be able to use when you write the essay. Minimally, you should incorporate at least one quote for each body paragraph.
Intro/Thesis TAG________________________________________________________________________ Topic_______________________________________________________________________ Opinion_____________________________________________________________________ Plan________________________________________________________________________ Background on mother daughter pair __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Textual Support (copy quote and write page number) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Theme ________________________________________________________________________________ Textual Support __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Symbol within theme in story/mother daughter ________________________________________________________________________________ Textual Support __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Theme comparison to second text ________________________________________________________________________________ Textual Support __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Conclusion Directory: cms -> lib04 -> NJ03000372 -> Centricity -> Domain -> 144 lib04 -> Persuasive Essay Writing Pointers By the end of the 3rd lib04 -> Stress please take the following notes On Back lib04 -> Persuasive Essay Objective: We will define components of and write a cohesive persuasive essay. Activating Prior Knowledge lib04 -> History of african american people: beginnings to present lib04 -> Interviewing 144 -> Albert Camus: The smiling Sisyphus significant events Domain -> Night Study Guide Directions Domain -> Five Paragraph Essay Writing Outline Honors English I Domain -> The qpa” – Quick Passage Analysis (One Probing Question and Four Sentence Analysis) Guideline for setting up your qpa Domain -> Name: due: Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 Solutions Take Home Test Matching Download 13.48 Kb. Share with your friends:
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