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Do Now
• You will need your homework thesis statements, yesterday’s handout and more binder paper
• Reflect – what difficulties did you have with last night’s assignment?
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Do Now• Please turn in your
homework from the weekend.
• Expectations• Q3• Hamlet• Q2 strategy
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Diving Into the Text
Analyzing the Author’s Craft in a Timed Essay
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How can we
Take students from…
Close reading to
thesis to writing a 7, 8, or 9
essay every time?
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6 Reading Habits to Develop in your 1st year at Harvard1. Look around--preview2. Annotate--dialogue with
yourself --author-- issues3. Outline--Summarize--Analyze4. Look for repetition and
Pattern5. Contextualize--Put the
reading in perspective6. Compare and Contrast--Fit
this reading into semester--the themes of the course--what you have learned.
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#1 Look Around and #5 Contextualize
• Is this a piece from a longer novel, short story or play?
• Is this a short piece in its entirety?
• Is there a date or a year that this piece was written?
• Is this an American, British or world author?
• What other information are you given?
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2012 AP English Literature and Composition Exam, Prose Question
Carefully read the following excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) by Helena Maria Viramontes. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the development of Estrella’s character…
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Looking Around
• Helena Maria Viramontes—Latino/Mexican?
• Title of Novel– Under the Feet of Jesus
• Piece from longer work—NOVEL written 1995
• About Estrella—her “character”
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Contextualize
• Author—Mexican American/Latino?
• Estrella?• Under the Feet of Jesus—
Religious significance?• Culture differences?
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Do Now: Looking Around
• Author?• Text?• Type of Text?• What does the prompt
ask?
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#2 Annotating: Time to read the piece quickly--annotate while you read--Look for …
• Point of View--who is narrating--what is perspective~~stance?
• Diction and Syntax--language that strikes you--sentence structure--Dialogue-- punctuation--
• Imagery--remember that images can be gustatory, visual, tactile---etc.
• Details--Anything that you need to pay attention to?
• Structure--Overall--what other narrative constructions do you see? Flashback? Plot order?
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#2 Annotating: Time to read the piece quickly--annotate while you read--Look for …
• Point of View--who is narrating--what is perspective~~stance?
• Diction and Syntax--language that strikes you--sentence structure--Dialogue-- punctuation--
• Imagery--remember that images can be gustatory, visual, tactile---etc.
• Details--Anything that you need to pay attention to?
• Structure--Overall--what other narrative constructions do you see? Flashback? Plot order?
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#3 Outlining, Analyzing, Summarizing
#4 Look for Repetition and Pattern • In Groups of 2-3 discuss
the literary devices listed below for 30 sec. to 1 minute each—take notes
• 30 seconds--Point of view• 30 seconds--Diction and
syntax• 30 seconds--Imagery • 30 seconds--Details• 30 seconds--Structure
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2012 AP English Literature and Composition Exam, Prose Question--continuedCarefully read the following
excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) by Helena Maria Viramontes. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the development of Estrella’s character. In your analysis you may wish to consider such literary elements as selection of detail, figurative language, and tone
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WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OF RACHEL?• 1995 LITERATURE • Read the following short
story carefully. Then write an essay analyzing how the author, Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques to characterize Rachel.
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WHAT IS THE NARRATOR'S COMPLEX ATTITUDE TOWARD THE PAST?
• 1997 LITERATURE • Read carefully the following passage
from Joy Kogawa's Obasan, a novel about the relocation of Japanese Canadians to internment camps during the Second World War. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze how changes in perspective and style reflect the narrator's complex attitude toward the past. In your analysis, consider literary elements such as point of view, structure, selection of detail, and figurative language.
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WHAT IS THE NARRATOR'S ATTITUDE TOWARD DOROTHEA?
• 1998 LITERATURE • Read carefully the following
passage from George Eliot's novel Middlemarch (1871). Then write an essay in which you characterize the narrator's attitude toward Dorothea Brooke and analyze the literary techniques used to convey this attitude. Support your analysis with specific references to the passage.
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WHAT IS THE DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE?
• 1999 LITERATURE. • In the following passage from
Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Crossing (1994), the narrator describes a dramatic experience. Read the passage carefully. Then in a well-organized essay, show how McCarthy's techniques convey the impact of the experience on the main character.
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What is Estrella’s Character?
Carefully read the following excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) by Helena Maria Viramontes. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the development of Estrella’s character. In your analysis you may wish to consider such literary elements as selection of detail, figurative language, and tone
.
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Time to fashion a thesis and plan the essay.
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DO NOW
• You will need your homework thesis statements, yesterday’s handout and more binder paper
• Reflect – what difficulties did you have with last night’s assignment?
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1. Look again at the promptCarefully read the following excerpt from the
novel Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) by Helena Maria Viramontes. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the development of Estrella’s character. In your analysis you may wish to consider such literary elements as selection of detail, figurative language, and tone
• You have now decided what “Estrella’s character”is--now you need to look back and choose the elements that you believe will best answer the prompt. Back to group discussion--decide which elements discussed earlier show this theme.
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2. Craft a Thesis
In the excerpt from the novel, Under the Feet of Jesus, the author, Helena Maria Viramontes, develops the character of Estrella through such literary elements as selection of detail, figurative language, and tone.
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Original Thesis• Replace the above underlined
sections with:1. What you believe is the
Estrella’s character, and2. Examples of the lit.
techniques as used in the passage that you believe are the BEST to show HOW the author develops it.
• You may not use any of the underlined words in your final thesis.
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• Throughout the passage from “Under the Feet of Jesus” Estrella experiences a life changing transformation. Helena Viramontes uses tone and even symbolism to portray Estrella’s change from being lost, confused, and illiterate to becoming motivated, intrigued, independent, and empowered.
• BB
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Plan the Essay
• Quickly outline the essay--start with the thesis--already written--then craft/outline paragraphs around specific examples of the literary techniques already chosen.
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34 Minutes Remain to Write a Fabulous Essay!
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Essential Questions about character• How do they change?• What steps do they go
through?• What events produce the
change
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Epiphanies – the climax of growth in a central character.• Do they experience
epiphanies?• When, why, and what do
the epiphanies reveal –to the character/s and us?
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Complexity
• What makes them complex?
• Are they unique for their age?
• Are they independent or dependent?
• What is their conflict?
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