1/20/15 Do Now: -“Turn and Talk” Homework: Extension Activity Due 1/20/15 (TONIGHT!!!) Content Objective: Content Objective: Students will gain understanding of the critical lens essay. Language Objective: Language Objective: Students will review model critical lens essays and score them using the rubric.

“Turn and Talk” “...we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world...” — L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables, In your own words, what does this quote mean? -How would you use two works of literature to support your interpretation of the quote?

Critical Lens Essay: Part 4 (Question 28) Your Task: Write a critical essay in which you discuss two works of literature you have read from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided for you in the Critical Lens. In your essay, provide a valid interpretation of the statement, agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using specific references to appropriate literary elements from the two works. You may use scrap paper to plan your response. Write your essay beginning on page 3 of the essay booklet. Critical Lens: Guidelines: Be sure to Provide a valid interpretation of the critical lens that clearly establishes the criteria for analysis Indicate whether you agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it Choose two works you have read that you believe best support your opinion Use the criteria suggested by the critical lens to analyze the works you have chosen Avoid plot summary. Instead, use specific references to appropriate literary elements (for example: theme, characterization, setting, point of view) to develop your analysis Organize your ideas in a unified and coherent manner Specify the titles and authors of the literature you choose Follow the conventions of standard written English “...we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world...” — L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables, 1908

What To Do: 1)Break into groups 2)Read and review model critical lens essays 3)Score responses using the attached rubric Content Objective: Content Objective: Students will gain understanding of the critical lens essay. Language Objective: Language Objective: Students will review model critical lens essays and score them using the rubric.

Mid-Term Exam Part One: Listening Comprehension -Approximately 10 multiple choice questions Part Two: Reading Comprehension -Reading two passages -Approximately 12 multiple choice questions Part Three: Reading Comprehension/Written expression -Reading two passages (one will be poetry) -Approximately 5 multiple choice questions -2 short response questions -1 response is about “controlling idea” -1 response is about literary element/technique Part Four: Written expression - Critical lens essay

Write a multi-paragraph critical lens essay in which you discuss two works of literature and write from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided for you in the Critical Lens. Follow the guidelines given below. You may use scrap paper to plan your response. Write your final draft in the essay book provided. Critical Lens: “It is the responsibility of the writer to expose our many grievous faults and failures and to hold up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams, for the purpose of improvement.” ~ John Steinbeck Be sure to:  Provide a valid interpretation of the critical lens that clearly establishes the criteria for analysis.  Indicate whether you agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it.  Use the meaning of the quote in the critical lens to address two works of literature  Create and defend a thesis.  Avoid giving plot summary. Instead, use specific references to appropriate literary elements (for example: theme, characterization, etc.) and/or literary techniques (irony, symbolism, figurative language, etc.) to develop your analysis.  Organize your ideas in a unified and coherent essay  Use standard written English  Incorporate vocabulary you have learned this year into your written response.

R– Restate Critical Lens E- Explain what the quote means/Interpret X- eXamples of two works that support main idea expressed in the quote T- Thesis- Tell how do the works of literature connect to the topic. Use characters’ names, not titles, here. * the topic will change based on the quote

 Begin with, “(author’s name) once said,…”  Copy the quote exactly as it is presented to you on the exam. John Steinbeck once said, “It is the responsibility of the writer to expose our many grievous faults and failures and to hold up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams, for the purpose of improvement.”

 Begin this sentence with one of the suggested sentence starters.  Keep your interpretation, as well as the entire essay, in the third person In other words, Steinbeck believed that literature can reveal the flaws in human beings; once the flaws are known, they can be corrected.

 This is where you include the T.A.G. (title, author, genre) of the two works and connect back to the quote’s main idea.  This sentence will also let your reader know if you agree or disagree with the quote. Both the drama Antigone by Sophocles and the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger support Steinbeck’s idea. or Both the drama Antigone by Sophocles and the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger support Steinbeck’s idea that literature enables people to improve their own lives by examining the flaws of characters.

Neither the drama Antigone by Sophocles nor the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger support Steinbeck’s idea that literature enables people to improve their own lives by examining the flaws of characters.

 Use characters’ names, not titles, here.  The title you mention first in sentence 3 should be the first work stated in your thesis as well as the first work you will write about.  It is not “wrong” to identify literary elements in your introduction, but there really is no need to. If you choose to add literary elements: Through their conflicts and characters, both texts illustrate the worst traits of human beings. In the ancient Greek drama, it is the actions of the antagonist, Creon, that brings to light humanity’s imperfections while for Holden Caulfield, it is through the protagonist’s many failures that mankind’s flaws are revealed.

John Steinbeck once said, “It is the responsibility of the writer to expose our many grievous faults and failures and to hold up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams, for the purpose of improvement.” In other words, Steinbeck believed that literature can reveal the flaws in human beings; once the flaws are known, they can be corrected. Both the drama Antigone by Sophocles and the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger support Steinbeck’s idea that literature enables people to improve their own lives by examining the flaws of characters. In the ancient Greek drama, it is the actions of the antagonist, Creon, that brings to light humanity’s imperfections while for Holden Caulfield, it is through the protagonist’s many failures that mankind’s flaws are revealed.

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