World Literature

Thursdya 5/31, 2012

and

Friday 6/1, 2012

Seating is different

Sit near the poster related to your

essay/project topic

Today’s Activities

1. Warm-up

2. Pre-write for Night essay

3. Find relevant evidence

4. Due at the end of the period: pre-write

5. Thesis/Topic sentences checked

6. Library work time

7. Homework: Permission form for Schindler’s List

Warm-up

What makes solid evidence for an

essay? Provide at least 3 ideas

Please have pre-write form out as you

work on your warm-up.

Keys to relevant evidence

Keys to relevant evidence

Quotes or specific paraphrases

Cite all evidence with page #

Literary analysis folks (more quotes than

paraphrases)

WORK ON FINDING RELEVANT EVIDENCE

Keys to relevant evidence

Quotes or specific paraphrases

Cite all evidence with page #

Literary analysis folks (more quotes than

paraphrases)

Keys to evidence by topic

Cause/effect

1 detail to show “before”

1 detail to show “after”

Compare/contrast

1 detail about Elie and his father

1 detail about similar or different relationship

Literary analysis

Break down evidence in to specific chunks to analyze in depth

Persuasive

2 details at least for each paragraph argument

Pre-write phases

1. Have thesis and topic sentences approved

2. Identify relevant evidence

3. Work on analysis

CAUSE/EFFECT IDEAS/EXAMPLES

Cause and effect: How do his experiences in the camps affect Elie Wiesel?

Loss of faith

Loss of will

Loss of bond with father

Loss of innocence

More self-reliant

Emotionally numb

Cause/Effect Thesis

The experiences in the camps caused Elie

Wiesel to ______________,

_____________, and _______________.

Thesis/topic sentences-cause/effect

Lady Macbeth’s ambition in Macbeth lead

her to reject her feminine side, manipulate

her husband, and finally lose her sanity.

COMPARE/CONTRAST IDEAS AND EXAMPLES

Compare/Contrast

Elie and his father Other father/son relationships

• Sons betray or

leave fathers

(Elie feels like

he betrays

father, Rabbi

Eliahou’s son

leaves him)

• See fathers

beaten

• Rely on each

other for

survival

• Don’t leave

• Never

abuses

father

• Share food

• Help one

another

survive

• Sons leave fathers

behind (Rabbi

Eliahou’s son on

march)

• Sons beat fathers

(pipel who beats his

father for not making

his bunk, boy who

attacks his father for

bread)

• Broken relationships

hurts survival

Thesis format

Essay organized around points: Similar to other father

and son relationships in Night, Elie and his father

__________ and _________; however, unlike the other

relationships _______________________.

Essary organized around relationships: Elie’s

relationship in Night is similar to _______________, but

different than _______________ and _____________.

THEME/LITERARY DEVICE IDEAS AND EXAMPLES

Literary devices (symbols and motifs)

Fire

Snow

Hanging pipel

Night

Violin

Bread

Writing thesis statement for theme essay

Through the characters of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and

Malcolm demonstrates the damaging consequences of

abusing power in Macbeth .

Through the powerful imagery of the blood and washing

of hands, Macbeth cautions that ambition left unchecked

by morals leads to downfall.

Topic Sentences-theme

Thesis: Macbeth shows how abusing power has

negative consequences through the characters of Lady

Macbeth, Macbeth, and Malcolm

Not proficient topic sentence: Macbeth abused his

power.

Proficient: Macbeth’s downfall demonstrates the

negative consequences of his abuse of power.

No argument?

Not proficient: Loss is shown in Night through

the loss of innocence, relationships, and faith.

Revised: The idea that the concentration

camps brought about far more than a loss of life

emerges as a dominant theme in Night through

Wiesel’s loss of innocence, the severing of

father/son relationships in the camps, and the

prisoners’ loss of faith.

Night’s use of the imagery of the hanging

pipel, Juliek’s violin, and the boy killing his

father over a piece of bread show how the

concentrations camps had the power to

destroy innocence and beauty.

Night shows that will power is essential for

survival in the Holocaust through the

characterizations of Moshe, Elie’s father,

and Elie himself.

PERSUASIVE ESSAY IDEAS AND EXAMPLES

Persuasive Essay Ideas

Fit literary traits in what ways?

Crosses threshold in to

new world

Faces challenges and

trials

Has and losses mentor

Descent in to darkness

Heroic feats of survival

Realization/epiphany

Return and contribution to

society

Doesn’t fit traits in what ways?

No realization/epiphany

No heroic feats, only

individual survival

No emergence out of

descent in to darkness

Persuasive essay

Elie Wiesel does (does not) fit the

archetype of the literary hero because

_________, _________, and _______.

While Elie Wiesel may fit the archetype of

the hero in that he ______ and _____, he

does not ________.