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Letter to the Reviewer . . . Page #
“TITLE” – Petrarchan Sonnet . . #
“TITLE” – Research Paper . . . . . #
“TITLE” – Elizabethan Sonnet . . #
Graphic Organizer . . . . . . . . . . . #
Letter to the Reviewer
• In Block Format
Please consult the sample letter and
rubric that was passed out with this
PowerPoint. 
“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!!!