Supervised Writing

Purpose Intended as a springboard to elicit your ideas From these ideas, you develop a topic and then the Written Assignment Ultimate Goal: That you produce a good Written Assignment with an appropriate topic

Logistics 50 minutes allowed No specified length Is turned in to the teacher An unedited copy is kept on file

Logistics, cont. Open book: in-book annotations allowed, but no secondary materials (e.g. no comp. book) Must be in continuous prose; however, like any in-class essay, you can (and should!) start with a pre-write/“braindump” (web, outline, bulleted list, etc.) to get ALL your ideas out (that way, if you run out of time on your SW, you at least have all your ideas recorded for when you write your WA).

Prompts Several (usually 4 – 5) prompts Goals are to: encourage independent critical writing stimulate thinking about an assignment topic

In December…. You will choose 1 of your 3 supervised writings You will develop it into the Written Assignment There must be an apparent connection between the supervised writing and the WA, but you are encouraged to provide your own title and to develop the chosen prompt in an independent direction.

Example 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

Example Prompt Do you think there are some characters in the work whose chief role is to convey cultural values? (purposely broad!) Work Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez Essay title The Vicario brothers as champions of honor

Example 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