Name: Period: Date: Final Draft DUE Wednesday, May 20th Turn-In Directions: 1. Type or write your Final Draft neatly in ink. 2. Complete the reflection on the back of this paper. 3. Staple this packet, including the rough draft, to your essay. Essay Grade: Unit 3, Embedded Assessment 2: Literary Analysis Scoring Criteria Exemplary 4.0 Proficient 3.0 Emerging 2.0 Incomplete 1.0 Ideas The essay includes a well-chosen passage that reveals the complex relationship between the literary elements and the major ideas and concepts of the entire work provides supporting details to enhance understanding of the writer’s position relates commentary directly to the thesis. The essay reflects a careful choice of a passage to show the relationship between a scene and the major ideas and concepts of the novel provides relevant details are relevant to explain the writer’s position uses approprate commentary. The essay attempts to link a passage to a major theme of the novel presents supporting details that may be fully developed or provide an understanding of the writer’s position has commentary that may not relate directly to the thesis or may be a plot summary. The essay has a passage that does not represent a major theme of the novel is missing supporting details or presents undeveloped ideas is missing commentary or it includes commentary that does not relate directly to the thesis Structure The essay has multiple paragraphs with a clear and precise thesis that directs the organization of the body uses transitions to clarify and connect ideas provides relevant and insightful commentary; the conclusion follows from the ideas presented. The essay has multiple paragraphs and is organized with an introduction, detailed body paragraphs, and a conclusion uses transitions to establish connections between ideas. The essay attempts to organize ideas but key pieces are lacking may be missing an introduction, detailed body paragraphs, and/or a conclusion uses few or no transitions to connect ideas. The essay does not have a focus with a clear organization of introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion does not use transitions to connect paragraphs and/or ideas. Use of Language The essay uses a formal style seamlessly incorporates literary elements is mostly error-free, with proper punctuation and capitalization to embed quotations into the text. The essay uses diction that is appropriate for an academic topic incorporates some literary elements has few errors. The essay uses simple language that is not appropriate for an academic topic includes little literary elements has errors that interfere with meaning. The essay uses slang or informal words that are not appropriate for an academic topic includes little or no literary elements has numerous errors that interfere with meaning. Respected Adult Editor Signature: Date: 1 Reflection 1. After completing this Embedded Assessment, think about how you went about accomplishing this task, and respond to the following question: What have you learned about the significance of individual passages to a novel as a whole? 2. What strengths do you see in this essay? Select a criterion from the rubric, write it down, and explain using details from your essay. 3. What is an area for improvement? Select a criterion from the rubric, write it down, and explain using details from your essay. Scoring Criteria Reflection Exemplary 4.0 Proficient 3.0 The reflection insightfully uses details and description of learning. Emerging 2.0 Incomplete 1.0 The reflection uses some details and The reflection demonstrates a vague The reflection does not connect description of learning. understanding of the assignment. learning to the assignment. Reflection Grade: ______________ (Academic Responsibility) 2 Name: To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Analysis Essay Period: Date: Essay Prompt Your assignment is to write a passage analysis of a key coming-of-age scene from To Kill a Mockingbird. After annotating the text to analyze Harper Lee’s use of literary elements in your selected passage, write an essay explaining how the literary elements in this passage help develop a theme of the novel. Pre-Write: Brainstorm ideas for key coming of age scenes, themes, and literary elements to develop your essay. Potential Key Coming-of-Age Scenes Themes: Life Lessons Literary Elements List of Literary Elements: internal/external conflict, irony, plot/subplot, point of view, voice, imagery, syntax, character/characterization, setting, motif, symbol, diction, tone, foreshadowing, flashback, rhetoric, rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) 3 Rough Draft: REQUIRED Before you write your Final Draft in ink on lined paper, you must complete a full outline. INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH Hook: Possible strategies include quotation, anecdote (short story), or interesting fact Bridge Statement (Lead-in to Thesis): Connect the Hook to the Thesis by providing a transition and a brief summary of the book and passage you selected. THESIS: ANSWER THE PROMPT! In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses (describe the passage) to develop the theme (explain the theme) through (list literary elements). 4 BODY PARAGRAPH #1 Topic Sentence: Transition, (Author) uses (Description of Literary Element) to develop the theme (Theme Statement). Textual Evidence: Transition, Lead-In + “Quote” (#). Commentary/Explanation: Explain how the quote supports the analysis (theme statement). Textual Evidence: Transition, Lead-In + “Quote” (#). Commentary/Explanation: Explain how the quote supports the analysis (theme statement). Concluding Sentence: Draw conclusions based on the evidence you presented in this paragraph, connecting to the topic sentence. 5 BODY PARAGRAPH #2 Topic Sentence: Transition, (Author) uses (Description of Literary Element) to develop the theme (Theme Statement). Textual Evidence: Transition, Lead-In + “Quote” (#). Commentary/Explanation: Explain how the quote supports the analysis (theme statement). Textual Evidence: Transition, Lead-In + “Quote” (#). Commentary/Explanation: Explain how the quote supports the analysis (theme statement). Concluding Sentence: Draw conclusions based on the evidence you presented in this paragraph, connecting to the topic sentence. 6 BODY PARAGRAPH #3 Topic Sentence: Transition, (Author) uses (Description of Literary Element) to develop the theme (Theme Statement). Textual Evidence: Transition, Lead-In + “Quote” (#). Commentary/Explanation: Explain how the quote supports the analysis (theme statement). Textual Evidence: Transition, Lead-In + “Quote” (#). Commentary/Explanation: Explain how the quote supports the analysis (theme statement). Concluding Sentence: Draw conclusions based on the evidence you presented in this paragraph, connecting to the topic sentence. 7 CONCLUSION PARAGRAPH Topic Sentence: In this passage, Harper Lee uses (describe the passage) to develop the theme (explain the theme) through (list literary elements). Literal and Interpretive Conclusions. Summarize what the text says (Literal) and what the text means (Interpretive). Universal Conclusions: End with why the text matters (Universal), restating the theme statement. 8