Outline to be followed. This will result in a second project if done well. 5 sources already provided as pdf files below.
Draft Materials Submission – Essay Two – by _______________
PART I
Compose, or Copy and Paste, a draft of your annotated bibliography here using the 5 souces provided in PDF below. Use MLA formatting of the page and citations.
PART II
#1 Complete the following checklist.
Checklist of Literary Elements :
For a thorough baseline grasp on any story, answer all the following questions in as much detail as possible.
Consider your expectations based on the title, and the first few paragraphs.
What do you expect after conflicts arise?
What forces are in conflict?
2 What happens? (Chapter 2)
Do the characters or the situation change?
What are the main events or occurrences of the plot?
3 How is the story narrated? (Chapter 3)
Is the narrator identified as a character?
Is it narrated in past or present tense?
Is it narrated in the first, second or third person?
Do you know what every character is thinking, or only some characters, or none? (this determines narrative point of view)
4 Who are the characters? (Chapter 4)
Who is/are the protagonist(s)?
Who or what is/are the antagonist(s)?
Who are the other other characters? Are they rounded, or flat characters?
How do they affect the story?
Do your expectations change about some characters?
5 What is the setting of the story? (Chapter 5)
When does the story take place?
Where does it take place? (Identify all places)
Does the story move from one setting to another?
Does the story move in one direction, or back and forth, in time and place?
6 What is the style of the prose? In other words,
Are sentence structures and vocabulary unusual in any way?
Are sentence structures complex and elaborate? Short and concise?
Does that style contribute to a tone? A mood?
What images seem important? (Chapter 6)
What figures of speech appear? (Chapter 6)
What symbols are used? (Chapter 6)
7 Themes are important ideas in stories shown by characters, their conflicts, and their actions. What important ideas, or themes, doe the story examine?
What attitude about each theme does the story imply?
Which characters, plot turns, symbols, images or other literary elements seems linked to each theme?
#2 Ten Questions (At Least!!)
Write ten questions directly asking about how or why the elements explored in the checklist matter. Ask about how elements develop, affect, contribute to key ideas or actions in the work, the more specific the better. The DMS is a progressive process, and these questions should derive from your analysis of the elements in the checklist.
General questions (Is the setting important?) or factual questions (Who is the main character?”) do not help. More specific questions, guided by your examination of that checklist should be the goal: (“What metaphor is implied by the setting in this story, and is that linked to a main theme?” “How do they symbols amplify what the story says about the theme of self-exploration?”)
Use prewriting strategies to explore elements and devise questions. To contribute well to the progress of analysis, every question needs to ask about an element – questions without an element are off target.
*Stay away from questions about theme; as stated in the checklist, themes are complex and derive principally from the whole of the other elements.
Use prewriting at this point (and any other point it might help) to explore answers to questions of interest. Try a variety of methods.
3- Three potential thesis statements:
A good thesis answers a complex question about the work (thesis can’t be a question). Based on your development of complex questions above choose three claims about elements in the work that you consider possible essay directions. Thesis statements
-Should not be paraphrases of each other.
-Should be full, complete sentences.
-Should be specific rather than general, expressing both the element and some opinion about it.
Evaluating three different thesis statements helps us determine which can be best supported.
>Thesis #1:
>Thesis #2:
>Thesis #3:
4- Complete a Sentence Outline, beginning with the selected thesis. All items must be complete sentences, as they will appear in the essay.
-This outline should present a developed plan for an essay. Logical links between thesis and development claims should be evident.
-Remember, the best outlines are written not as one word topics, but as full sentences making statements about portions of the essay’s ideas. The goal should be to get as close to that as possible. If starting with topics, what will you show your audience about that topic?
-Preferably, writers should already have a strong idea what text they’ll be quoting to examine the element in each of the body paragraphs.
(insert text below)
Item 1: Place single sentence thesis here, including its number from above.
Item 2: Place main idea of first body paragraph here:
Item 3: Place main idea of second body paragraph here:
Item 4: Place main idea of third body paragraph here:
Item 5: Repeat as appropriate.
Item last: Concluding idea, if available:
**Remember, the outline of the essay plan should be ready for development as a draft, is the most important aspect of the DMS, and will be the focus of instructor feedback. A DMS without an outline cannot score well.
Expectation
The Process: (Use the provided DMS Template for essay two)
1-Students choose a work to study, complete the checklist of prewriting to fully explore the basics of the work’s literary elements, then devise ten complex questions about the function of those elements. To this point, just like essay one.
2-Students then go to the library and the LCCC databases, seeking the professional writing of literature scholars about the poem/story/novel, or the author’s other writings, perhaps.
3-Students then create an annotated bibliography in MLA format of those six sources. Annotations should briefly summarize, establish viability of the source, and mention potential uses in the essay.
4-Next, and sometimes concurrently, the answer to the best, complex question about elements should become the tentative thesis, and an outline should be developed showing the various points to be made to support that thesis.
The End Result:
A complete Essay Two DMS Submission will look like the DMS of essay one, with the addition of an annotated bibliography.
1-A very detailed checklist should explore each main element and important sub-topics of those.
2-Ten questions should specifically pursue literary elements.
3-Three potential thesis claims should discuss elements.
4-A detailed full-sentence outline should describe the planned essay.
5-An Annotated Bibliography, following all MLA bibliography/works cited formatting rules, will present a selection of sources reviewed for potential use in the essay.
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