Paragraph 4 Novel Study

Theme

Great stories, like the one you are reading are often great because they convey themes. Theme is defined as a message that the writer wishes you to get from his story.

The central idea may be expressed as a singular encompassing theme, while at the same time there are often lesser themes within the story.

Theme is expressed as a complete thought:

§  War is a futile endeavour that is best avoided, by both leaders and their citizens.

§  The bonds of blood are often stronger than those forged by friendship.

Prepare a 5 in 1 and post it to your blog: you may post it as a picture or compose the 5 in 1 on your blog and add a picture:

 

 

Components:

 

1. Write a theme that you feel best encompasses the author’s central idea in the novel that you are reading. 

2. Write a paragraph that explains how the theme is developed in the novel.

3. Quote a few lines that you feel best capture the theme. Cite the quotation according to AMA format.

4. Create an image that you feel best captures the theme. (Think of an image that reflects the themes above: bonds of family vs. bonds of friendship or the futility of war. How would you draw these themes?

5. Write a title that encompasses all of the other elements of this assignment!

Novel Study Paragraph 3

Novel Study: Paragraph 3
 

Rising Action: often events in a story that lead to heightened suspense will inevitably lead to a point of greatest interest, or climax.

 

Along with Setting, Character and Causative Incident, Rising Action is a part of the dramatic structure of a story. Freytag developed a way to graphically illustrate the dramatic structure of a story in a PLOT GRAPH, which is also referred to as Freytag’s Pyramid.

In a work of fiction there is usually rising action. Write a paragraph that explains how rising action or suspense is created in the story that you are reading. Trace the sequence of 2 or 3 or even 4 events that serve to heighten suspense.

 

Remember that your paragraph should contain a hook and clincher (come full circle)!

 

Example paragraph with some missing lines!

(Hook) When Winston saw the words, “I love you” on the slip of paper that the black haired girl surreptitiously slipped into his hand he knew his life was about to change. The reader also senses at that Winston’s life is about to change. This is one in a series of two more events that Orwell uses to add suspense to his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four… (here you would include two more events that typify rising action)… You can be sure, as a reader, that when the main character gets a love note from a dark haired stranger, that there’s going to be some action in the story. (clincher)

Novel Study: Paragraph 2 

Every story worthy of that name has a conflict, and conflict is the direct outgrowth of a causative incident (CI). From the story that you are reading, identify the CI and write about how that CI came about and what likely conflict it will encourage.

Writing the paragraph: unity and coherence:

A paragraph is unified when it stays on topic.

A paragraph is coherent when the point made is clearly made. 

To achieve unity and coherence write a paragraph that outlines the CA and indicates what likely conflict will transpire. 

The criteria for this paragraph: 

• Maintaining unity
• Achieving coherence
• writing in active sentences
• using at least one correlative conjunction

To add style to your writing play with your words. Add a hook that you return to in the concluding sentence.

 

 

Example:

            (hook) When you look around at others you probably assume that people are all the same - and that only you are different. Well, in that regard we are all the same - we each like to think that we are the different one! In Sherman Alexie’s novel, Part Time Indian, the man character, Junior, likes to think that he is unique. This wildly original thinking, though, is what leads to the causative event in this book. Junior, a Okanagan native boy, leaves his rez school in central Washington to attend a white school in the nearby town of Reardon. Because he’s fought with his teacher at his reservation school, Junior makes the decision to attend Reardon High School, and consequently finds himself between two worlds, the world of his native heritage and his adopted white culture. Without a doubt this causative incident should lead to plenty of conflict, in the variety of both man versus man and man versus self. So, the next time that you are looking around to see that everyone else is the same, give your head a shake and realize that there are as many differences as there are people out there! (clincher)

Novel Study Paragraph 1

Novel Study Paragraph # 1

While reading the novel select one quotation which “strikes” you and write it down. Include a proper reference to the quotation you select.

Example: “One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized.” (Orwell, 1948, p. 56)

The reason for selecting a specific quotation should be because it…

 

Annoys you…

Angers you…

Inspires you…

Frustrates you…

Makes you think…

Confuses you…

Reminds you…

Etc.

1. Copy verbatim the quotation and reference accordingly. State which of the above apply to the selected quotation.
2. Tie the quotation to the story in such a way as to give a bit of background to it.
3. In a clearly structured paragraph respond to the quotation with an explanation about why the quotation addresses one of the above concerns. (topic sentence, developing sentences and concluding sentence)

 

Example: “One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized” (Orwell, 1948, p. 56). It angers me to think that Winston lives in a society where he is able to consider that his friends or even his coworkers might just disappear one day. That they would disappear for having committed a thought-crime makes the realization of the absolute control of the totalitarian government even more repugnant. Winston, through the voice of the narrator, muses on the myriad ways that people in his society can merely disappear, and then even disappear from all references - as if they had never existed. I would like to think that if I lived in such a society that I, too, would be a rebel. I’d like to think that I would join forces with others to overthrow such an authoritarian regime. But what chance would I have. If I had grown up in such a regime, how would I know what political system would better afford the freedom that I so desperately craved?

Art Gallery Walk and Talk

 

Every Picture Tells a Story

 

In response to the art gallery visit, write a blog about your experience. Please refer to the writing template provided to you on the day of our walk to the art gallery.

     Enjoy your writing. An essay, when well constructed has an introductory paragraph that prepares your author for what's to follow. In the case of this assignment, you will be writing about your trip to the art gallery and about one of the works of art that you wanted to explore in greater depth. If you wish to write whimsically, introduce the essay with humour. If your intent is to be interpretive, begin with a thoughtful observation. What's most important, though, is that as you write the essay, you develop your ideas so that they flow naturally, from one to the next. Each sentence in your paragraphs should serve to develop the goal and expectations of the art gallery trip. A comment on your own walk back to the school might be a good way to conclude the essay. Most importantly, though, enjoy the process of creation, for that is what writing really is - creating.

 

A template to help guide your writing is available at the following Wikispaces Link.

 

http://penhighinquirygroups.wikispaces.com/home

 

This is a full K (1024 words) or half K (512 words) composition.

Please have your post completed by Friday, October18.