A Separate Peace Essay Reflection
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A Separate Peace Essay Reflection
For this assignment, you will write a four paragraph essay using proper MLA format based on one of the themes from A Separate Peace. Your paper must include an introduction paragraph, two body paragraphs each supporting a different piece of evidence, and a conclusion.
Category / I’m shaky / I think it’s ok / I’m confidentMLA format (typed, proper heading, neat) / General Requirements:
Proper mechanics (spelling, grammar, punctuation)
Reasons. If you are confident explain what you did well and what you learned. If you are still shaky or only thing it is ok, ask a question or explain how you plan on improving.
Attention Getter
Necessary Background Information
Quality of Claim (thought-provoking, well structured) / Introduction:
Reasons. If you are confident explain what you did well and what you learned. If you are still shaky or only thing it is ok, ask a question or explain how you plan on improving.
Quality of Evidence (contributes to the claim) / Quality of Evidence:
Quality of Inference/Explanation (analysis of quotation is deep and thoughtful)
Direct Quote (signal phrase, quotation marks, proper MLA citation)
Reasons. If you are confident explain what you did well and what you learned. If you are still shaky or only thing it is ok, ask a question or explain how you plan on improving.
Rephrased Claim
Summary
Clincher / Conclusion:
Reasons. If you are confident explain what you did well and what you learned. If you are still shaky or only thing it is ok, ask a question or explain how you plan on improving.
A Separate Peace Essay
Paragraph #1: Introduction
How does Knowles address the universal theme ______in A Separate Peace?
Group A: friendship, competition, war
Group B: envy, reality, denial
Group C: conformity, loss of innocence, identity
If you have another idea, please run it by me. Tell me what the message is about this idea as seen through the novel. Do not simply say that there is friendship in A Separate Peace; tell me what is the message about friendship that can be applied to our lives, as seen through A Separate Peace?
Attention Getter: (A shocking fact, a quote by a famous person, a question, etc)
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Background information: (Introduce the novel, the author, and a quick summary of the scene/chapter/novel)
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Claim: (opinion that you are trying to prove as fact, make it specific) ______
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Paragraph #2: EvidenceTransition and Topic Sentence: Introduce the chapter/ scene/ character. Use transitional words (First, therefore, additionally, etc.)
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Evidence #1 Signal phrase + Direct quote + MLA Citation
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Inference/Analysis #1 (Explain the quotation. Pretend your reader has never read the novel! Link it back to the claim)
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Paragraph #3: EvidenceTransition and Topic Sentence: Introduce the chapter/ scene/ character. Use transitional words (First, therefore, additionally, etc.)
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Evidence #2 Signal phrase + Direct quote + MLA Citation
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Inference/Analysis #2 (Explain the quotation. Pretend your reader has never read the novel! Link it back to the claim.)
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Paragraph #4: ConclusionRestate the Claim in New Words
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Summarize Main Points (What did your inference/ analysis say?)
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Clincher (Leave the audience with something to think about / Connect it back to your attention getter / What does Knowles what the audience to take away from this novel?)
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