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1 PROCESS PAPER 2

2 4 PARTS Prewriting 20 pts Rough Draft 20 pts Peer Edit Work Sheet 20 pts Final Draft 40 pts

3 LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY What is one theme of the short story that you are analyzing? What are three techniques (literary devices) that the author uses to communicate this theme? What can readers learn about the human experience from this short story?

4 PREWRITING 20 PTS

5 PREWRITING GRAPHIC ORGANIZER Take notes in each blank box about the question posed at the top of the box. Although you will only write about three of the different boxes, I want you to have notes for each question. Due on your desk Monday October 6th

6 ROUGH DRAFT 20 PTS

7 INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH Hook Significant quote from the short story. Explanation of Hook One or two sentences that tell the name of the story and the author as well as a short summary. Thesis + Road Map Tells the theme you have chosen to explore and includes a road map in the sentence.

8 INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH SAMPLE We will have no breakfast, said Emilio. Mama will not want to cook. Rosy did not answer him. Where is Pepe gone? he asked. Rosy looked around at him. She drew her knowledge from the quiet air. He has gone on a journey. He will never come back (7-8). This quote comes from John Steinbeck s 1938 short story Flight. Flight tells about a young boy s tireless, but unsuccessful quest to escape after he ends up killing another man. This essay will explore the hopelessness of the human condition, a theme that Steinbeck develops using three different techniques: setting, point of view, and conflict.

9 HW 9-1 Complete the introductory paragraph for your paper. Should have 3-4 sentences 1. Significant Quote from the story 2. Name of story and author, plus short summary 3. Thesis that names the theme your are exploring and ends with the road map that tells which 3 literary devices you are using as evidence for the theme Due on the desk Tuesday at the beginning of class.

10 BODY PARAGRAPHS

11 BODY PARAGRAPH 4-5 SENTENCES One Sentence should be COMPOUND or COMPLEX Introduce and define the literary device you are talking about. Select a quote or evidence from the story that reflects your theme. Connect your evidence to the theme that you have chosen to write about. End with a transition sentence that connects to the next paragraph.

12 BODY PARAGRAPH EXAMPLE COMPLEX SENTENCES IN BOLD One way in which Steinbeck develops a theme of the futility of man s existence is by emphasizing the setting or details about the landscape where the story unfolds. For example, throughout the story, he gives elaborate and poetic descriptions of the scenery while offering very little information about the characters: Behind the farm the stone mountains stood up against the sky. The farm buildings huddled like the clinging aphids on the mountain skirts, crouched low to the ground as though the wind might blow them into the sea (1). In this example from the beginning of the story, Steinbeck uses imagery to make the ocean and the mountains seem very powerful when compared with the vulnerable and smaller structures that the characters inhabit. By setting up this contrast, Steinbeck is foreshadowing that the humans will remain powerless and helpless in the face of nature s forces and elements. However, setting is not the only way that Steinbeck reflects his themes of hopelessness and desperation.

13 HOW TO MAKE A COMPOUND SENTENCE Pick two sentences from your paragraph that are next to and related to one another. Take the period off the first sentence. Add a semicolon (;) or add a comma + a FANBOY Write the second sentence after the FANBOY Add a period at the end of the second sentence.

14 HOW TO CONSTRUCT A COMPLEX SENTENCE Pick one sentence from your paragraph that has a verb or a noun that you can modify (add more details to). Remove the period from the end of the sentence. Add a subordinating conjunction (verbs) or a relative pronoun (nouns) to begin your dependent clause. If using a subordinating conjuction add a subject and verb about WHEN, WHERE, WHY, or HOW the main verb occurred. If using a relative pronoun add a subject and a verb that gives more details about WHO or WHAT the noun is. Add a period to the end of your dependent clause.

15 after although as because before even if even though if in order that ADVERBIAL DEPENDENT CLAUSES SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS once provided that rather than since so that than that though unless until when whenever where whereas wherever whether while why

16 ADJECTIVAL DEPENDENT CLAUSES Adjectival Dependent Clauses Answer one of the following questions about a noun in the independent clause. Which one? What kind? When? Where? Why? Begin with Relative Pronoun or Subordinating Conjunction That Which Who Whom Whose When Where Why

17 HW 9-2 Complete your first body paragraph. It should be about how one literary device reflects the theme that you have chosen Make sure that you have at least four sentences. 1. Introduces and defines the literary device you are talking about. 2. Gives an example from the story of the literary device being used 3. Explains how the example connects to the theme 4. Transitions to the literary device in the next paragraph Make sure that one of your sentences is compound or complex. Stay in the third person. (Do not use the words I or you as you write this paper). Use my example as a guideline. Due on your desk at the beginning of class Wednesday.

18 HW 9-3 Complete your second body paragraph. It should be about how one literary device reflects the theme that you have chosen Make sure that you have at least four sentences. 1. Introduces and defines the literary device you are talking about. 2. Gives an example from the story of the literary device being used 3. Explains how the example connects to the theme 4. Transitions to the literary device in the next paragraph Make sure that one of your sentences is compound or complex. Stay in the third person. (Do not use the words I or you as you write this paper). Use my example as a guideline. Due on your desk at the beginning of class Thursday.

19 HW 9-4 Complete your third body paragraph. It should be about how one literary device reflects the theme that you have chosen. Make sure that you have at least four sentences. 1. Introduces and define the literary device you are talking about. 2. Gives an example from the story of the literary device being used 3. Explains how the example connects to the theme 4. Transitions to the literary device in the next paragraph Make sure that one of your sentences is compound or complex. Stay in the third person. (Do not use the words I or you as you write this paper). Use my example as a guideline. Due on your desk at the beginning of class Friday.

20 CONCLUSION Restatement of Thesis - including theme and road map. Posing a research question about the theme. Connecting/Applying the theme to everyday life experiences.

21 CONCLUSION - EXAMPLE As this paper has demonstrated, John Steinbeck uses setting, conflict, and mood to analyze the theme of hopelessness in his short story Flight. However, further research is necessary in order to understand why Steinbeck might have had such a bleak outlook on an individual s prospects in life. Nevertheless, this theme is a timeless one that continues to speak to us today as we face new challenges in a digital age that seems to be pushing us further away from other people and thus disconnecting us from any meaningful purpose in our lives.

22 HW 10-1 Write the concluding paragraph for your process paper. Make sure your paragraph has 3-5 sentences Restate your thesis, including your road map and the theme you wrote about Pose a research question either about the life of the author or the time in which the story was written Connect the theme you wrote about to current/contemporary life experiences Due on your desk, Monday October 20 th at the beginning of class.

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