Final Exam on 12/9: 2-4pm & example organizational sentences

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• You are required to cite at least four (4) of Frost's poems as evidence
• Your topic is to address one of the main theme's of Frost's work…but the essay structure won't be given until the exam

• discuss how he uses a literary element such as personification, or similar (you describe/define) imagery, or his use of forms, or similar speaker personas, etc.

• may involve comparing and/or contrasting of how Frost uses techniques

• "Open book" on Robert Frost's poems  (annotate your poems in the Frost packet)
• One page of typed notes, to be handed in with exam

• Do NOT pre-write essay paragraphs, or else you will receive an automatic 0 on the exam.
• Do outline thematic ideas
• Do write down key lines, images, with line numbers
• Do categorize poems based on thematic statement or some motifs

Reviewing How to Write Thesis and Subtopics for Such an Essay as our Author Study


Thesis Statements:

• Include your author subject(s) in the statement
• Include the topic you are writing on (the specific theme, for example)
• Include your view/argument about the two...

Examples (neither of these completely answers our actual prompt, but does demonstrate the part that includes outlining a common thematic statement in many of his poems): 

• In the poems X, Y, and Z, Frost's speakers reflect upon their own smallness as part of the larger natural world.

• Frost consistently explores how man negatively separates himself from his fellow man, leaving him lost in the natural world.

Topic Sentences:

• Further the thesis by specifically addressing some point that you find "comes out of" the thesis.

• For instance, if your thesis says something about a specific theme, then your topic sentences should go into more specific ideas about how the works demonstrate or emphasize that theme.

• Specify the subjects that you are exploring in the body paragraph (use parallel structures!)

• When comparing 2 or more texts, specifically name those texts analyzed in this specific paragraph.

• Again, make it your priority to start each body paragraph with a point that expands on the thesis

Examples (make sure at least one of your own topic sentences for the final pursues an idea not evident within these models):  

• X and Z both explore man's smallness through personification of inanimate objects.

• In all three poems, man's loneliness is represented by speakers whose diction is very rural.