World Literature
Thursdya 5/31, 2012
and
Friday 6/1, 2012
Seating is different
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Sit near the poster related to your
essay/project topic
Today’s Activities
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Warm-up
Pre-write for Night essay
Find relevant evidence
Due at the end of the period: pre-write
Thesis/Topic sentences checked
Library work time
Homework: Permission form for Schindler’s List
Warm-up
 What
makes solid evidence for an
essay?
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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
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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
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Quotes or specific paraphrases
Cite all evidence with page #
Literary analysis folks (more quotes than
paraphrases)
Keys to evidence by topic
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Cause/effect
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Compare/contrast
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1 detail about Elie and his father
1 detail about similar or different relationship
Literary analysis
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1 detail to show “before”
1 detail to show “after”
Break down evidence in to specific chunks to analyze in depth
Persuasive
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2 details at least for each paragraph argument
Pre-write phases
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Have thesis and topic sentences approved
Identify relevant evidence
Work on analysis
CAUSE/EFFECT
IDEAS/EXAMPLES
Cause and effect: How do his experiences in
the camps affect Elie Wiesel?
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Loss of faith
Loss of will
Loss of bond with father
Loss of innocence
More self-reliant
Emotionally numb
Cause/Effect Thesis
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The experiences in the camps caused Elie
Wiesel to ______________,
_____________, and _______________.
Thesis/topic sentences-cause/effect
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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
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• Don’t leave
• Never
abuses
father
• Share food
• Help one
another
survive
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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
• 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
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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)
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Fire
Snow
Hanging pipel
Night
Violin
Bread
Writing thesis statement for theme essay
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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
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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?
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Not proficient: Loss is shown in Night through
the loss of innocence, relationships, and faith.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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No realization/epiphany
No heroic feats, only
individual survival
No emergence out of
descent in to darkness
Persuasive essay
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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 ________.