1. Journal/ Pre-Write
Describe yourself using 3 adjectives (descriptive words: funny, silly, smart)
Pick 1 of the 3 words and list an instance where you demonstrated (showed) this trait.
Ex: Ms. Clendenin- ditzy (flighty, thoughtless, silly)
I once spent 10 minutes looking in, through and around my car for my keys…which was especially hard because I had to do it one handed. I couldn’t use my right hand because they were holding…my keys.

2. AKA: Reading way more into the work than the author EVER intended!
Character Analysis
AKA:
Reading way more into the work than the author EVER intended!

3. Fun Fact: Mark Twain Forgive us Mr. Twain…
You know the man who looks like Coronal Sanders? This was written on the first page of his novel…
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Forgive us Mr. Twain…

4. Pre-write!
You will write a character analysis on one of the characters from a piece of literature we have read.
Character analysis is a fancy name for an essay that explains who the character is or why he/ she did something specific.
You will pick a character listed below :
General Zaroff- “The Most Dangerous Game”
Equality Anthem
Odysseus- The Odyssey
Mathilde- “The Necklace”

5. Now that you have your character… (and absolutely NO desire to write this paper)
You will create a flip chart to help you find textual evidence or PROOF of 3 character traits that your character possesses (similar to the journal).
You will have all period to work on your chart and it will be completed for homework.
It is due for a grade tomorrow (Wednesday) at the beginning of the period!

6. Flip open that FLIP chart!
Now that your flip chart is completed you will begin to “flesh out” your essay.
Remember an essay is like a map and I need instructions of where I am going. So what is the first thing you need for your essay?

7. A PROMPT/ THESIS!
Remember your character analysis will address 2 of the 3 character traits you have picked out and found textual evidence for.
Your job, with this essay, is to provide evidence that these character traits are true and how it effects the story.
Ex:
Character: Rainsford
Traits: intelligent, arrogant, uncompassionate

8. Creating your Thesis
EX: In Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford’s intelligence and arrogance allow him to beat General Zaroff and ultimately win the “game”.
Character= Rainsford
Traits=intelligence & arrogance
I am going to prove how these traits effected the character and with him the plot.

9. Quotes! That’s what they said…
So I need quotes that not only prove the traits but also help to prove how these traits effected the story.
Trait # 1: arrogance
Quote 1: “Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes– the hunters and the huntees…” (60).
Quote 2: “He executed a series of intricate loops…Rest brought him a new confidence and a feeling of security” (75).
Trait # 2: intelligence
Quote 1: “” (22).
Quote 2: “…seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding” (60).

10. Format of the paper
Intro.
2 Body paragraphs
Conclusion

11. Intro. (this is cake compared to research)
Attention getter
Quote from the story
Rhetorical question
Basic info.
Name the work, the author and a VERY BASIC description of the short story/ novel.
Thesis.
You should already have this written and checked it with me…

12. Intro example:
What is the difference between predator and prey? In William Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” this idea is explored when an avid hunter, suddenly finds himself the quarry in a deadly game. In Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford’s intelligence and arrogance allow him to beat General Zaroff and ultimately win the “game”.

13. Body Paragraphs You need: Topic sentence
Integrated quote with citation (just the page #)
2 sentences of commentary for each
Concluding sentence

14. Commentary: Making it NOT suck
This is the place where you explain how your trait and your quote relate to the overall idea of the work.
After Rainsford is forced to participate in Zaroff’s “game” he tries to outsmart the General by, “[executing] a series of intricate loops…Rest brought him a new confidence and a feeling of security” (75). At the start of the story Rainsford believes himself to be the most accomplished hunter, and therefore exudes a feeling of overconfidence despite the fact that he is being hunted for sport. It is this confidence in himself and his abilities that keeps him alive for 3 days, where others would have given up or been killed.
Integrated quote!
Commentary: 2 sentences

15. Conclusion Sum up the point of your paper. Make your points again
Restate thesis and make it final.
Ex: Golding’s theme of civilization vs savagery is presented through Roger’s brutal personality and menacing appearance. Golding asks the question of man’s morality and through the character of Roger the reader gets Golding’s answer: Man at his most primal degree will always choose the darkside.
Dorky Star Wars reference