Bring your graphic novel for the cantos and the rough draft of your paper for Friday.
Final drafts of the paper are due next Tuesday 12/23
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Friday, December 5, 2014
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Homework for the break
For Monday after break please bring the following:
1. Your revised inquiry question with a paragraph explaining the importance/significance of the question.
2. A working annotated works cited page with the sources you've read and "digested" to date.
3. Have a nice Thanksgiving!
1. Your revised inquiry question with a paragraph explaining the importance/significance of the question.
2. A working annotated works cited page with the sources you've read and "digested" to date.
3. Have a nice Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
On Thursday we begin our synthesis paper. Here is the assignment.
Come prepared to read and research your inquiry question!
Advanced
Placement English Name
Synthesis
Paper Metamorphosis
syn·the·size verb \-ˌsīz\ : to make (something) by combining different
things: to combine (things) in order to make something new: to make (something)
from simpler substances through a chemical process
You have chosen an inquiry question
concerning “Metamorphosis” to explore, and write a synthesis paper about your
findings. The synthesis paper should be approximately 3-5 pages in length.
Your research needs to be scholarly
in nature. So, although I encourage people to begin their research with basic
sources (Encyclopedia Britannica is a good one), the point of the basic
research is to be able to graduate to more sophisticated sources (JSTOR, books,
primary resources, databases). Basic resources like Wikipedia should not find
their way into an academic paper; they are tools for you to learn basic
information about the topic.
Your paper will have an works cited
page constructed through Noodletools. While there is any number of ways to conceive
of a synthesis paper, what follows is an outline for the form I would like you
to follow.
Section I.
In the first section of your paper
(notice I did not say paragraph, you should use paragraphing to help your
reader follow the logic of your writing) you need to do the following:
·
Explain your question and why your
question is significant.
·
Identify the texts and writers that
you have identified as critical to your project.
Section II
In the second section of your paper
you will:
·
Give a brief summary of the source,
and then analyze the significance of the source to your question.
It is possible to organize this
section by source, or by topic or theme. You should consider the form that
works best for your topic. As always, be sure to ask if you have questions.
Section III.
In the third section of your paper you will:
·
Explain the conclusion that you
reached about your question, and provide sufficient discussion about both the
strength AND the potential concerns/weaknesses of your position.
Grading Criteria
1.
Quality of the question
2.
Quality of the resources and
analysis of the resources
3.
Level of insight of the synthesis
4.
Quality of the writing
5.
Correctness of Works Cited page and
internal citations
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