World Lit Paper 2 Prep

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World Lit Paper 2 Prep
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• GENERAL INFORMATION
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• 1. The assignment must be the independent work
  of the candidate. You must work independently,
  but with teacher supervision. All work connected
  with your assignment must be your own.
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• 2. Ask Ms. Disher-Campbell to
• a. help you decide which kind of assignment you
  should attempt
• b. help you decide on the work on which
  assignments will be based
• c. help you focus the assignment by defining a
  specific topic
• d. help you with the title of the assignment
• e. help you decide on the form of imaginative
  pieces (poem, diary, letter, whatever)
• f. help you decide if you need to consult
  secondary sources
• g. discuss your outlines with you to make sure
  proposals meet the requirements of the assignment
• h. suggest to you how to modify your proposal
  if its unsuitable
• i. discuss you proposal in terms of the
  assessment criteria

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• 3. Keep all drafts of your paper, either on your
  computer or as hard copies including proposals,
  outlines, and just plain doodling. It may be
  necessary for me to verify the authenticity of
  your paper and if I can see multiple drafts, that
  will be sufficient in most cases. Be sure to
  turn in your rough draft on time so that I can
  give you the most efficient help on this
  assignment.

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• First Drafts of WL Assignments Teachers may make
  general comments about the first drafts of
  assignments but must neither correct them nor
  write comments on the drafts themselves. These
  comments may be oral, but if in writing must be
  on a separate sheet.
• After making general comments about the first
  drafts of assignments, teachers should provide no
  further assistance unless a candidate abandons a
  proposed assignment and begins a new one. In this
  case, teachers should provide guidance for the
  new proposal in the same way as for the original
  one by encouraging the candidate to produce an
  outline and making general comments on any first
  draft produced.

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Thesis Statements strong or weak?
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Strong Thesis Statements have/do the following

• Use evidence from the text to support claims
  (i.e. anaphora develops the speakers tone
  ellision affects the sound of the words in
  Whitmans Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)
• Hint at larger meaningif you say a device
  exists, WHY did the poet choose it and HOW does
  he/she use it? What is the THEME?
• Are general enough to cover the main
  points/purpose of the poem, but specific enough
  to give you something to discuss
• Weak Szymborskas Still is about Jews riding
  in a boxcar to a concentration camp.
• Stronger Ss Still uses a cyclical
  repetition, anaphora, and a distant tone to
  establish the speakers physical and emotional
  disconnect from the Jews in the boxcar.)

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Strong or Weak?

• Through the use of anaphora, Szymborska creates
  a helpless and anxious tone in her poem, Still
  as a response to the damage from war and
  oppression that is comparable to the tone of
  Satrapi in Persepolis.

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Strong or Weak?

• By using a third person omniscient narrator,
  Szymborska juxtaposes the position of her speaker
  against the state of the Jews in the boxcar in
  her poem Still.

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Strong or Weak?

• Through her use of repetition and somber tone,
  Szymborska establishes the feeling of the
  mechanical, cold precision of the Holocaust in
  her poem Still.

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Strong or Weak?