A Separate Peace Essay Reflection

Name______Hr._____

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 confident General Requirements: MLA format (typed, proper heading, neat) 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.

Introduction: Attention Getter Necessary Background Information Quality of Claim (thought-provoking, well structured) 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: Quality of Evidence (contributes to the claim) 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.

Conclusion: Rephrased Claim Summary Clincher 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) ______

______Paragraph #2: Evidence

Transition 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: Evidence

Transition and Topic Sentence: Introduce the chapter/ scene/ character. Use transitional words (First, therefore, additionally, etc.) ______

______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: Conclusion

Restate 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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