Monday, January 3, 2011

Compare and Contrast Assignment

This one is for all you cool kids who got to cut out of classes during the last week of school before Christmas:

Compare and contrast the speaker in any two of the poems that we read and studied.
- Multi-paragraph
- Supporting quotes
- Some mention of larger themes
- Pick one of the two outline approaches

Text by Text Outline (poem by poem):

1 - Introduction - catchy opening, background information, thesis statement
2 - First Poem - detailed analysis of the speaker of the one poem
3 - Second Poem - detailed analysis of the speaker of the other poem
3 - Conclusion - a fully developed conclusion that contrasts the two poems (should be long)

Point by Point Outline:
1 - Introductory Paragraph including catchy opening, background details, and a detailed thesis statement.
2 - Point #1 - discuss both poems
3 - Point #2 - discuss both poems
4 - Conclusion - come back to your thesis (can be brief)

Due Wednesday, January 5th, 2011.
2011? That sounds strange.
Happy new year!