Just a reminder that tomorrow, the following are due:

- Your ego Trippin' poem should be uploaded here by tonight (and printed out for tomorrow's class)
- Your primary source column should be posted here on Google Classroom 
- You can post the 6 quotes in the post below (Synthesis Matrix Updated)
- Remember to write the thesis on top of the paper and your 3 areas of focus on the left hand side
- I have posted the online versions of the texts on the previous post

- If you had issues doing the peer edits/reviews, please bring your printed copies of your introduction to me at the end of the day
- You will be able to turn in your perfected intro and thesis tomorrow on turnitin (due to all of the issues on turnitin, I'm giving you that one day extension)

- If you haven't done so already, plesse copy and paste your intro and thesis into turnitin.com by 8:00 pm

- Upload the three areas of focus that your research paper will cover AND 1 counter argument.  Please make sure that this is written in sentence form. AND Please make sure that your thesis is written at the top of the paper


Thesis: ______________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

1st Area of Focus:

2nd Area of Focus:

3rd Area of Focus:

Counter Argument:



- Remember that your peer edits are due tomorrow night. So you want to make sure that all of your assignments are in.

- Finally, please begin working on your original hyperbolic poem that is due Thursday night at 11:59.  For those of you who have me 5th or 6th period, I'll be more than happy to help you tomorrow

Please remember to write your introduction (and your thesis) and upload it to Google Classroom.  It's due on 11:59 pm

- Continue working on your independent reading projects (remember that you should have two questions completed tonight)

- Please check turnitin.com to make sure that you are enrolled in the correct period - this is going to extremely important for the research paper process.

- You can (and should) start working on your introduction/thesis.  Although it is not due until Monday at 11:59 pm on turnitin, you might want to get started early.


When writing the introduction, you should really remember to include:

- Restate the question
- Title (underlined)
- Author's full name
- Begin with the large theme (the American Dream, strength, being a survivor, education and speak generally about it. Then get more and more narrow/more and more focused
- Begin moving into your primary source (the book you are focusing on), provide background information on it.
- Explain how the theme connects to your book
- Thesis (it should be narrow, specific, and answer the question)

1. Please have your A Raisin in the Sun books in class with you.  Hopefully, they will  be collected tomorrow.

2. Continue working on your independent reading books/paragraphs

3.  Remember that your extra credit projects are due tomorrow

4. Choose your research paper project questions
    - You can find the questions on the blog post below
    - For homework, please fill out the Google Form (found on Google Classroom) by tonight

College English 9 Research Paper 2018

Unit Objective:

Students will demonstrate an understanding of writing and research by:

• Using the writing process to brainstorm, develop, draft, and edit an argument paper
• Engaging in rigorous self-assessment and peer-feedback and exercises
• Selecting, quoting, and citing credible sources appropriately

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of an effective literary argument by

• Crafting logical claims based on sustained thought, discourse, and reflection on the primary text chosen
• Selecting appropriate evidence from the text and from published literary critics
• Providing logical, connected, and appropriate explanation of evidence and claims

Basics:

Length: 4-6 pages formatted correctly in MLA style

Required sources: The primary source text plus three additional sources, two must be from published literary critics

Final draft deadline: Friday March 10th. Hard copies of the final draft and rough draft are due in class.  AS WELL AS an electronic copy on Turnitin.com due by 11:59 on the same day.

There will be a 10 point deduction taken off from late papers (PER DAY)

Please see the handout for ongoing due dates.

Weight: While your process work will count as homework grades, the final grade on this paper will count as the final exam grade (which is a term grade)

Assignment:

You will receive four prompt options. Select the one that best caters to your intellectual interests and curiosities. Before developing a thesis, engage in research that broadens your understanding of the topic and introduces you to the intellectual discourse that scholars and literary critics have already been having about your primary source text.

Then, join the intellectual conversation by developing your own thesis, and incorporating both the primary source text as well as the articles and published essays as other sources of evidence.

Your four prompt options are:

1.For hundreds of years, people have been moving to The United States from all over the world in pursuit of the picture-perfect America that is glorified as the “land of the free. ”The “American Dream” is a phrase used to capture the utopic idea of the capability, by working hard, of anyone in America to rise up from any economic class to a higher one, in which he or she establishes a happy, successful life, usually with a family. This idea is certainly a dream of many, if not most Americans. However, this desire is not necessarily one that can be fulfilled by anyone. Consider how the American Dream is defined in your primary source text. Is The American Dream Attainable; and if so, for whom? (Of Mice and Men, A Raisin in the Sun)

2. It has been said that education will make you free.  But in literature and life, we see contrasting points of view about the role of education, what being educated looks like, and who should be educated. Many would argue that formal education is meant to benefit both the individual and society but in looking at the texts we have read this year, we are forced to wonder….Is Education a Human Right or a Privilege? (Douglass, Black Boy)

3.In order to survive, people have been known to go to great lengths and to do things they

would not ordinarily do. Why is it that some people are able to survive terrible ordeals,  

while others do not? Are there qualities that a “survivor” might possess which make them more likely to be successful when placed in a difficult position? Careful study of the literature begs the question...What Does It Take To Be A Survivor? (Night, Douglass, Of Mice and Men, the Odyssey, Black Boy)

4.It’s easy to think of people who are strong in body. Many famous athletes have tremendous physical strength. But some people are extremely strong in mind and spirit as well.  Do large muscles and courage make someone strong, or intelligence and wisdom? Are there other traits and characteristics that should be used to determine one’s strength? Careful consideration of the texts that we have read and discussed this year leads one to wonder… Is Strength More than Just Muscle? (Odyssey, Night, Of Mice and Men)

Please read "The Flight of Icarus" on Google Classroom and answer the questions that follow

- Complete the Google Classroom Assignment
- Return a Raisin in the Sun
- Read your independent reading book and respond to two questions in your journal