1. Supervised Writing

2.  Intended as a springboard to elicit your ideas  From these ideas you develop a topic and the final essay  Ultimate Goal Behind Requiring the Supervised Write: That you produce good essays (the Written Assignment) with appropriate topics Purpose

3.  50 minutes allowed  Open book (annotations allowed, but no secondary materials)  Must be in continuous prose (not a web, an outline, bullets, etc.)  No specified length  Is handed in to teacher  An unedited copy is kept on file Logistics

4.  Several prompts  Goal is to:  encourage independent critical writing and  stimulate thinking about an assignment topic Prompts

5.  You will choose one of your three pieces of supervised writing  You will develop it into an essay (the Written Assignment)  There must be an apparent connection between the supervised writing and the final essay, but you are encouraged to provide your own title and to develop the chosen prompt in an independent direction. In December….

6.  Prompt Which minor character plays the most significant role?  Work A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen  Essay title Mrs Linde as role model in A Doll’s House Examples

7.  Prompt Do you think there are some characters in the work whose chief role is to convey cultural values?  Work Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez  Essay title The Vicario brothers as champions of honour

8.  Prompt Identify a symbol, motif or strand of imagery (or more than one if you prefer). What role does it play in the work?  Work Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak  Essay title The contrasting roles of ice and snow in Dr Zhivago