Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
After today I should be able to: write a thesis statement that identifies literary elements and states an interpretation of the short story's meaning.
Reading:
Agenda:
- Vocabulary Review game
- Thesis statement that identifies the text, the literary elements, and the overall meaning of the short story.
- Topic Sentences for each paragraph.
- Part of your thesis statement plus connection to your universal idea.
- Shakespeare begins by presenting Lady Macbeth belittle and shaming Macbeth for the guilt he feels, which showcases the nonchalant facade she wears to mask her own guilt.
- Verbs: presents, describes, narrates, displays, details, focuses on, repeats, includes/incorporates, compares, contrasts
- Literary Effect Verbs: to highlight, to showcase, to emphasize, to reiterate, to characterize, to expose, to reveal, to contrast, to foreshadow, to symbolize, to personify.
- Including examples from the short story
- For example,
- Take, for example how,
- For instance,
- Quotes should only be 9-13 words (general rule).
- Seamlessly include the quote. You don't want to be able to tell where your words end the quote begins.
- Start your quote sentence with "after" or "before" in order to summarize the context of the quote and lead directly into the words from the text.
- Weak: The main character says she was "in this world, but not of it."
- Strong: Take, for example, how after the narrator acknowledges that the most important parts of her life were her summer vacations, she reveals her desire to adopt the philosophy that she was "in this world but not of it."
- An example of a paragraph with two quotes:
- Shakespeare begins by presenting Lady Macbeth’s ironic shaming of her husband to highlight that she wears a mask to hide her own guilt. Take, for example, how after Macbeth hesitates to commit the murder, Lady Macbeth attacks his manhood by saying, "When you durst do it, then you were a man" (1.7.49-50), revealing her strategy of manipulating him through shame while concealing her own fears. This manipulation continues throughout their interaction as she pushes him toward violence. Later, when Macbeth expresses concern about failure, Lady Macbeth coldly responds, "We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking-place" (1.7.59-60), further demonstrating how she masks her own apprehension with a facade of unwavering resolve.
- Here is another good student example:
- Jackson begins by displaying the community’s repetition of tense feelings as they continue their lottery, to reveal that people can half-heartedly disagree with tradition but don’t want to stop it completely. Take, for example, how before Mr. Summers starts to look at the list of names to start the lottery a “sudden hush fell on the crowd” (3), highlighting the tense atmosphere around the lottery. Mr. Summers then explains the process and how it will work to ensure that the lottery will commence smoothly. Another example, while Mr. Summers is explaining the lottery for another time, the community had already done this so many times as “most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around”, portraying how the lottery is making people nervous, although this event has numerous times.
- Sentence Pattern Practice. Write five of your own sentences that fit this pattern.
- Formula: Cause (Action, Event, Trait) + Linking Verb (leads to, results in, causes, because of) + Effect (Consequence, Outcome).
- Examples:
- Weak: Hamlet is indecisive and then he delays.
- Cause and Effect: Hamlet's inherent indecisiveness and overthinking nature ultimately leads to his prolonged delay in avenging his father's death.
- Weak: The setting is oppressive, and the characters feel trapped.
- Cause and Effect: The oppressive and claustrophobic setting of the isolated manor house directly contributes to the characters' growing feelings of entrapment and psychological distress.
- Weak: She was ambitious so she betrayed him.
- Cause and Effect: Driven by her relentless ambition, Lady Macbeth manipulates and ultimately causes her husband to betray his own moral principles.
Homework:
- Tenth Grade vocabulary assignment on Gimkit. You will find it on Google Classroom. You will have a test on Friday. It will be due on Sunday by 9 PM.
