Do Now, 5 Minutes
• Ensure that you have the following:
1. Do Now Packet
2. Weekly Vocabulary Words
3. Notes 1.13
4. Homework (Socratic Seminar Reflection Guide
and Persuasive Response)
5. Pens/Pencils and Highlighter(s)
6. Binder
• Complete Do Now for Monday, September
15
Today’s Objective
• 1.13. SWBAT write and workshop an introduction
paragraph to a five-paragraph essay.
REVIEW DO NOW
The Introductory Paragraph
• An analytic essay should be at least 5
paragraphs with an introduction, three body
paragraphs, and a conclusion.
• The introduction presents your topic and
gives your thesis statement, which is the
roadmap to the rest of your paper.
The Introductory Paragraph
Big Picture Concept
Background Information of Text(s)
Paraphrase the Prompt
Thesis Statement
Exemplar Introductions
• With your partner, read A, B, C, and D on p. 1 and p. 2 of
your packet.
• These paragraphs are actual student introductory
paragraphs, each of which received either an A or a high
B.
• Using 4 different colors or modes of marking (underlining,
circling, etc.), mark the different elements (Big Picture
Concept, Background Information of Text(s), Paraphrase
the Prompt, and Thesis Statement) of each paragraph.
Introductory Paragraph A
• Humans, though they always desire to hope for the best,
are gifted with the capacity to learn from their mistakes. In
romantic circumstances, this ability is probably at its most
welcome. As the speaker in George Gascoigne’s poem
“For That He Looked Not Upon Her” proves, the adage
“once bitten, twice shy” grants the spurned the chance to
move on. In the poem, the use of endangered animal
imagery, diction associated with deception and illusions,
and a rhyme scheme that emphasizes the last two lines
develops the speaker’s wariness of trusting a past lover
once again.
Introductory Paragraph B
• People who learn from their mistakes of are often those
who have learned the hard way and never forget it. In “For
That He Looked Not Upon Her,” the poet George
Gascoigne develops the complex attitude of the speaker
regarding a woman who has deeply affected him.
Gascoigne implements such devices as vivid imagery,
stylistic diction, and various syntactic devices to convey
the speaker’s state of mind.
Introductory Paragraph C
• In his novel The Known World, Edward P. Jones creates a
character, Moses, who is completely entwined with the
world around him. Exploring themes of nature and rebirth,
Jones complicates the reader’s understanding of
humanity, slavery, and gender roles. Through utilizing an
omnipresent narrator with insights into Moses, explaining
Moses’s connection to nature, and the interaction with rain
and rebirth, Jones reveals the character of Moses and
suggests the power of interactions with the natural world.
Introductory Paragraph D
• D) Sacrifice is one of the pinnacle forms of exemplifying
character. In William Shakespeare’s famous play King
Lear, King Lear’s daughter Cordelia sacrifices her
potential wealth and power in the kingdom by answering
King Lear’s question of how must she loves him with
nothing; it is an answer that subtly illuminates Cordelia’s
yearning for truth in a world of fake flattery, her value of
forgiveness, and her value of personal integrity in a
society that is blinded by material wealth and status.
Cordelia’s sacrifice illuminates these strong and steadfast
values in her initial conversation with Lear, and in their
last conversation in jail.
The Thesis Statement
• The “roadmap” of the paper.
• It should answer the question of the prompt with three
reasons or points listed. These three points will serve as
subtopics for your essay, and will be the topic of each of
your body paragraphs.
• It looks like the assertion, but it doesn’t need to contain
the author’s name or the name of the text…it should be
mentioned already in the paragraph.
Exemplar Thesis Statements
• A) In the poem, the use of endangered animal imagery,
diction associated with deception and illusions, and a
rhyme scheme that emphasizes the last two lines
develops the speaker’s wariness of trusting a past lover
once again.
Exemplar Thesis Statements
• A) In the poem, the use of endangered animal imagery,
diction associated with deception and illusions, and a
rhyme scheme that emphasizes the last two lines
develops the speaker’s wariness of trusting a past lover
once again.
Exemplar Thesis Statements
• B) Gascoigne implements such devices as vivid imagery,
stylistic diction, and various syntactic devices to convey
the speaker’s state of mind.
Exemplar Thesis Statements
• B) Gascoigne implements such devices as vivid
imagery, stylistic diction, and various syntactic
devices to convey the speaker’s state of mind.
Exemplar Thesis Statements
• C) Through utilizing an omnipresent narrator with insights
into Moses, explaining Moses’s connection to nature, and
the interaction with rain and rebirth, Jones reveals the
character of Moses and suggests the power of
interactions with the natural world.
Exemplar Thesis Statements
• C) Through utilizing an omnipresent narrator with
insights into Moses, explaining Moses’s connection
to nature, and the interaction with rain and rebirth,
Jones reveals the character of Moses and suggests the
power of interactions with the natural world.
Exemplar Thesis Statements
• D) […] it is an answer that subtly illuminates Cordelia’s
yearning for truth in a world of fake flattery, her value of
forgiveness, and her value of personal integrity in a
society that is blinded by material wealth and status.
Exemplar Thesis Statements
• D) […] it is an answer that subtly illuminates Cordelia’s
yearning for truth in a world of fake flattery, her value
of forgiveness, and her value of personal integrity in a
society that is blinded by material wealth and status.
Literary Analysis Essay #1
• Read the following quote: “And, after all, our surroundings
influence our lives and characters as much as fate,
destiny, or any other supernatural agency.” –Pauline
Hopkins, Contending Forces
• Choose a short story or poem from this unit (either from
the Unit 1 Literature Packet and “And of Clay Are We
Created”) in which cultural, physical, or geographical
surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a
character. Then, write a five-paragraph essay in which
you analyze how surroundings affect this character
and illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.
You may use any work from this unit.
Literary Analysis Essay #1
• Specific Deadlines:
• Introduction: First 5 minutes of class, Tuesday, 9/16
• Body Paragraph 1: First 5 minutes of class, Wednesday, 9/17
• Body Paragraphs 2 and 3: First 5 minutes of class, Thursday,
9/18
• Completed Essay, including Conclusion: Monday, 9/22
• The essay turned in on Monday must be either typed, double-
spaced, 12-point with professional font OR written legibly and
neatly in blue or black ink, double-spaced and on a single side
of paper.
Independent Writing Time
• Look through your texts from this unit (Unit 1 Literature
Packet and “And of Clay Are We Created”).
• Which one do you think you could best write about?
• After you have decided, read through it again, this time
looking for three specific ways in which the physical,
cultural, or geographical surroundings are affecting the
psychological or moral traits in a character (These three
things will be your thesis statement!).
• Then, begin writing. Whatever you do not finish in class
today will serve as your homework.