Category: Writing

The literary research essay is just a long analytical essay with more research. You may choose any poem, play, or short story that has been assigned this semester.
This essay is ANALYTICAL.
IT IS NOT A SUMMARY.
Don’t retell the story; assume your reader has read it. Check your calendar for the due dates!
Your essay
must
have these components:
(1)
an introduction
,
(2)
body
,
(3)
conclusion
,
(4)
thesis statement
,
(5
) good development
,
(6)
topic
sentences, and
(7)
transition words
. Your paper
must
be
double-spaced, four (4) full pages (about 1600 words),
and
written in 12 point Times New Roman
. You must cite your main source (primary source), incorporate and cite four (4)
secondary sources
from the library databases, and adhere to MLA style formatting.
–
YOU MUST DO RESEARCH
to aid you in writing this assignment, and you must use proper MLA documentation that accurately credits your sources.
-For this assignment, a secondary source is one that discusses or analyzes your chosen story. Many academic journals contain articles that discuss short stories. You must locate your secondary sources from the library databases (such as Gale Literary Databases, Academic Search Complete, Literature Resource Center, Gale Virtual Reference Library).
Secondary sources such as Shmoop, Cliff’s Notes, SparkNotes, enotes.com, bookrags.com, 123helpme.com, Wiki anything, and exampleessays.com ARE UNACCEPTABLE. Your secondary source must come from an academic journal or published book.
NOTES AND REMINDERS:
– If you submit an essay with plagiarism in it, your instructor will determine the consequences, which could be as much as a 0 on the assignment or dismissal from the course.
-Primary Source: The piece of literature you are analyzing is your primary source.
-Secondary Sources: The literary criticism found in the Literary Reference Center in GALILEO is the secondary source. You may use more than four secondary sources.
4 secondary sources is the minimum required for this assignment.
– Use MLA FORMAT (Times New Roman 12; double spaced; 1 inch margins; headnote; MLA pagination with last name page number inserted using header function).
– You must use
quotations and paraphrases
from both the literature selection you are analyzing AND from the four secondary sources. Use correct in-text citation formatting. Remember that quotations must connect to your words and cannot stand alone in the essay as floating quotes are fragments.
– When quoting from a story, you use the author and page number in the parentheses. When quoting poetry, you must use the space/space format between lines of the poem and put the line number in the parentheses. Ex. Cullen concludes, “Of all the things that happened there / That’s all I remember” (11-12).

Ernest Hemingway, an acclaimed American novelist, said, “My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.”
How do Hemingway’s pre-writing habits compare to your own?
What has been your experience with prewriting activities in the past?
If you do not use a prewriting activity when writing(be honest!), what prevents you from using one?
How might using prewriting activities help you, personally, become a stronger writer?
What is an event from your life that you may want to use for next week’s Personal Narrative essay? a memorable child hood experience you can make it up
What are some reasons why this story could be interesting to readers?

An in-class activity that could be used as a means of employing multiple assessments of ELLs, and all students in general, is having students use journal writing to respond to a lesson or story. The response can be a choice of sentence starters that allows them to shape where their thoughts will take them, and they go from there. As teachers we need to make our expectations known on these responses, how many sentences? How long are they (are they meaty or bones we can build from)? Once the writing time is over, a time for sharing with the class what was written will provide a great time for assessment by listening to them speak/read to the class their response. The journal can be collected for review of their writing to assess how they are doing. The scoring can be modified for our ELLs from that of our other students to accommodate their proficiency level and goals.
Multiple assessments are important because they allow us to assess in more than one focus area for our students. Using multiple assessments in one project, assignment, or in-class activity allows us to hit on several areas of focus at one time. There is no one assessment that will tell us, as teachers, how our students are progressing through the year. We must capitalize on ways to assess our students’ multiple ways at a time. We can still monitor and chart where necessary in this manner, but our assessments must be clear in what we are looking for, otherwise they are not going to be a good means of tracking (how can one track what they are uncertain they are tracking).
Comment as you see fit. Min 40 words or more.
Using Informal Assessments for English Language Learners. (2019). Colorin Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/using-informal-assessments-english-language-learners.

The use of fomative assessments in the classroom to support the common core standards and ongoing is a great tool to have and use for all students especially ELL students. One formative assessment I would use in the classroom would be to keep a daily journal. With this daily journal it would be something like an exit ticket for the student. What we have learned from the day would be what they are writing about in their journal. The students will need to write down three facts and put them into sentences or in a short paragraph. This will be helping them with their writing skills as well as reading skills becasue I would have them share it with peers to read. In addition to keeping a journal students can read one of their passages out loud to the class at the end of the week. This is helping with their speaking skills. I can see how far each student has progressed in each of the three categories of reading, writing and speaking. I can know what each student needs to work on to further their English.Comment as you see fit. Min 40 words or more