Writing about The Metamorphosis
Last week you studied how to properly use quotation marks, and we reviewed all of the A-List Academic Vocabulary. We also did a very in-depth review of The Metamorphosis and the characters. This week, you get the opportunity to put all that together with the writing skills we have worked on this year.
Today you will begin writing the first of several essay’s concerning the texts we have read in our unit study of Magical Realism. The essay prompt is:
What role does each character play in Gregor’s metamorphosis and how does it affect the family?
You will need to select specific words, quotations, and scenes throughout the text that reveal the conflicting motivations of the characters. In your essay, you will explain how these scenes support inferences drawn about the familial relationships and reactions to the metamorphosis. How do these develop a theme of The Metamorphosis?
Today you will select those specific words, quotations, and scenes throughout the text that reveal the conflicting motivations of the characters. This should take you about 15 minutes.
The second step will take a little longer, you will have 25 minutes to take the prompt question and turn it into the thesis statement you plan to use in writing your essay.
Everyone must have a thesis statement fully written and approved prior to the end of class today.
Tomorrow you will write a full, timed essay in response to today’s prompt. It is not cheating to plan what you will be writing in class tomorrow.
Remember the following important parts of any essay:
Introduction
- Hook
- Title and Author
- Thesis Statement
Body Paragraphs
- A topic sentence for each paragraph that supports your theses
- Support for topic sentence that is properly cited
- Transitions to and from next paragraph
Conclusion
- Restatement or Wrap Up of the thesis
- So What statement
MLA Requirements
- Proper 4 line heading
- Proper in-text citations
- Works Cited page
Essays may be hand written on paper or typed as a Google doc and printed off by the end of class as we will be doing a class activity with the printed copies of the essay’s the following day.