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6.03 american lit
Answer each question below. You may use the notes you made in your Student Guides.
Total score: ____ of 20 points
(Score for Question 1: ___ of 2 points)
What is the topic for your argument? State it in question form.
Answer:
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(Score for Question 2: ___ of 6 points)
Write the thesis statement for your argument. It should consist of one or two complete sentences that clearly state your position on the issue and give a reason for your position.
Answer:
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(Score for Question 3: ___ of 6 points)
Which pattern of organization will you use to present your details, and why? State specific details that make this pattern appropriate. Common patterns of organization are order of importance, logical order, chronological order, and spatial order.
Answer:
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(Score for Question 4: ___ of 6 points)
Write a paragraph outline to use for your argument. Remember that a paragraph outline should include all parts of the essay: the introduction, each supporting paragraph, and the conclusion. Also remember to show how you will concede a point.
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6.06
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6.11
Type your name and the date at the top of this page. Type or paste your draft into this document. Be sure that your draft is double-spaced and in 12 point Times New Roman font. Save the file as:
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7.03
The questions below will help you plan your speech. You may have already answered some of them in your Student Guide, so refer to it if you wish.
Total score: ____ of 50 points
(Score for Question 1: ___ of 10 points)
What is the general topic of your speech? How will you focus this topic?
Answer:
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(Score for Question 2: ___ of 10 points)
What thesis do you intend to develop in your speech? Remember that a thesis should be written in a complete sentence.
Answer:
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(Score for Question 3: ___ of 30 points)
Write an outline for your speech in the space below. You may use a formal outline or an informal outline. Remember that regardless of the form you use, your outline should be an accurate representation of what you intend to include in your speech. That means you need to include information for the introduction, the points you will cover in the body, and the way you intend to wrap up your speech in the conclusion.
Answer:
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7.10
You will deliver your speech.
Here are the elements to look for in your own speech and as you listen to your peers’ speeches:
An introduction that includes a thesis and captures the audience’s attention
Points that support the thesis
Rhetorical devices such as parallel structure, refrain, allusion, imagery, figurative language, repetition, quotation, or first-person-plural mode of address
A conclusion that restates the main points and stirs the audience’s emotions, if appropriate
Effective use of tone, pace, and emphasis
Complete the speech
write it here :
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9.02
Read each question carefully. Answer in the space provided.
Total score: ____ of 75 points
(Score for Question 1: ___ of 5 points)
Two of the short stories you read this semester are “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “After Twenty Years.” Choose one of these stories. State the theme in a complete sentence. Then briefly explain why it is a valid theme of the story.
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(Score for Question 2: ___ of 10 points)
Both “The Story of an Hour” and “The Lottery” are set in a particular time and place. In a different setting, the events of the plot might have been very different. Choose either of these stories. Explain how the setting of this story is important. Cite specific aspects of the plot.
Answer:
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(Score for Question 3: ___ of 10 points)
You read several memoirs, including Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza and “No Gumption” by Russell Baker. How are these two memoirs similar? How are they different? How do the authors’ experiences affect the choices each makes in his writing style?
Answer:
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(Score for Question 4: ___ of 50 points)
This semester you read To Kill a Mockingbird. (If you did not read To Kill a Mockingbird, you read A Separate Peace). Write an essay of at least three paragraphs that states an important theme of the novel you read this semester. Analyze how the events of the plot, and the main character’s responses to those events, helped convey that theme.
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6.03
Answer each question below. You may use the notes you made in your Student Guides.
What is the topic for your argument? State it in question form.
Is To Kill a Mockingbird still culturally relevant to American Society?
Write the thesis statement for your argument. It should consist of one or two complete
sentences that clearly state your position on the issue and give a reason for your position.
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a timeless novel that presents the problems of racism in
the United States through the efforts of a white lawyer to free his black client, who has been
wrongly accused of a crime. Though it might appear like the situations portrayed in the text are
no longer relevant to modernity, the themes, characters and resolution of the story are still
relatable in the twenty-first century.
Which pattern of organization will you use to present your details, and why? State specific
details that make this pattern appropriate. Common patterns of organization are order of
importance, logical order, chronological order, and spatial order.
I will present my argument in order of the themes stated in my thesis. First, I will speak about the
themes of the story, then the characters and, finally, its resolution. For each, I will present some
context followed by my analysis of the information presented. I think this is the better pattern
because it will help me cover all the aspects that are relevant to the thesis in a way that is easy to
follow. It also helps with the cohesion if the thesis is, in one way or another, reinstated in each
part.
Write a paragraph outline to use for your argument. Remember that a paragraph outline
should include all parts of the essay: the introduction, each supporting paragraph, and the
conclusion. Also remember to show how you will concede a point.
Answer:
Introduction:
Provide some background for the text.
State Thesis
First Argument:
Historical Context: Then and Now
Second Argument:
Characters: Racism and Injustice
Third Argument:
Resolution: The Unsatisfying End
Conclusion:
Summarize the Information
Reinstate Thesis
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Cultural Importance of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Not in vain was the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, awarded the Pulitzer Prize the
year of its publication. Set in the 1930s in Alabama, the state where the author was born, the novel
tells a loyal tale of the difficulties of being black in a nation with a history of racism. For context,
when the novel was published, in the 1960s, the country was still dealing with the problems caused
by the racial inequity that characterized its social landscape. The problems that people had to
endure in the sixties where slightly different than those in the thirties, but the main antagonism
remained: Black Americans were not treated with the same respect as White Americans. Beyond
respect, though, the Black community was also left with fewer opportunities than white families,
leading to an increasing problem with poverty and discrimination. To Kill a Mockingbird, by
Harper Lee, is a timeless novel that presents the problems of racism in the United States through
the efforts of a white lawyer to free his black client, who has been wrongly accused of a crime.
Though it might appear like the situations portrayed in the text are no longer relevant to modernity,
the themes, characters and resolution of the story are still relatable in the twenty-first century.
Nowadays, we may like to believe that the problems portrayed in the novel might be kept alive
only within their historic context. Surely, the atrocities that we have heard happen, cannot be still
occurring in modernity. However, the current state of events have shown that the topic of the novel
is not only still relevant, it is eerily similar to the situations we see happening now. As mentioned
earlier, when the novel was published, there was a lot of political turmoil due to the protests that
were beginning to make national news. The movement, led by various groups of Black Americans,
were taking to the streets to demand the recognition of their Civil Rights. Like Tom Robinson, in
the novel, the black community was dealt a punishment that they did not deserve. Based only on
the prejudice created around the color of skin, the black community had been relegated to the
fringes of society. Forbidden from interacting with the white world, they were denied access to
politics, education and an opportunity to living an equal life. This same struggle can be seen today;
discrimination, increased incarceration rates and higher chances of suffering from police brutality
are still found in the United States. These are the same issues that the characters in the novel were
discussing and the same issue that the people of the sixties were fighting to solve.
Racism, as portrayed on the novel, is found in all aspects of society. It can be seen in the kids who
taunt Atticus’ children, in the people who mock Atticus himself, in the system of law that will
allow a case be won on no evidence. There is not an aspect of society were racism has not
impregnated and, as it was in the sixties, this phenomenon can still be seen now. The trial against
Robinson is so easy to win for the prosecution because there is no doubt, in a system as polarized
as a racist society, that the Black man must be guilty. Atticus presents evidence that proves he is
not the perpetrator but the courts di...
