B Day English Paper due today Ms. McCloskey
English
Mr. McCloskey
8:41 AM
Please provide me with an update of you're doing with your final paper. Please know that it is due THIS Friday (5/22). If you have any questions on how to get started, today would be the day to ask. Only two more nights to work on this, PLEASE use your time wisely.
*No additional assignment. PLEASE just work on your final
END DO NOW
Gilgamesh: https://uruk-warka.dk/Gilgamish/The%20Epic%20of%20Gilgamesh.pdf
The Odyssey: https://librivox.org/the-odyssey-by-homer/?q=macbeth&search_form=advanced
Things Fall Apart: http://marul.ffst.hr/~bwillems/fymob/things.pdf
Make sure you you open the attached document. Please email me if you have any questions!
9th Grade English I FInal Essay
Throughout the year, we have focused on the theme of “Identity” within each of the works we covered. For your final, I would like to write a 1 page essay on how we’ve explored that theme in class.
Directions:
Your essay must focus on the theme of “identity”
Your essay can focus on one particular title (Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, or Things Fall Apart) OR can compare how “Identity” is explored within multiple titles. (For example, you can write 5 paragraphs on just The Odyssey OR you can compare the differences in identity between The Odyssey and Things Fall Apart).
Focus on THINGS FALL APART
Although your essay doesn’t have to be 5-paragraph form, it’s probably easiest to.
Your Intro paragraph MUST contain a clear thesis statement. Please see the thesis formula that we’ve used throughout the year at the bottom of this page.
Your essay must use at least 2 quotes, which must be properly cited. You’re free to use more than 2 if you so choose.
The title is taken from the Yeats poem on page 6.
FIRST QUOTE CAN BE: CHAPTER 1, PAGE 8
"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond,.
His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler..."
"
This is like our current boxing matches or Olympics or other sports where fans root for a certain city.
This is a type of identity.
Your essay should be at least a page in length.
QUESTION(S) TO BE EXPLORE WITH YOUR THESIS STATEMENT.
What were the complexities of “identity” within this piece (or multiple pieces)?
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/126117/12/08_chapter2.pdf
There are different factors of identity.
1. Gender: Masculine/Femine: Okonkwo thought his father and son identified too "Feminine"
2. Religious: Christian versus Indigenous.
3. Cultural : European versus African
4. Character: Rigid or Flexible (Okonkwo is rigid and in the end died because of this)
How did the author create a central character with complications of identity?
The author shows us flaws.
He shows by example and dialogue some good and bad things about gender in the stereotypes Masculinity and Femininity. From the standpoint of European history taught in school, he shows us some of the things left out that we can read about here in African culture.
Okonkwo has flaws as we all do.
The story is a tragedy because in the end his flaws lead to his death.
The story makes the reader feel anger, pity and fear.
Why were there conflicts between the character’s personal beliefs and actions throughout the story?
The conflicts make the story interesting.
In addition to Okonkwo's conflicts we see how his wives get along.
Igbo versus European the high level conflict.
How did the central character’s identity change throughout the story?
Story starts relating he is the son of an father he considers effeminate.
He matures into a man who has a son he considers to be effeminate.
Identity crisis in Psychiatry
Thus high school students should be able to relate. Especially METS all moving on to another school soon and maturing from childhood to young adulthood.
Thesis Statement Formula used for writing arguments:
SUBJECT + WRITER’S ATTITUDE + REASONS + REASON + REASON =
THESIS STATEMENT
Subject + attitude + reasons
"Things Fall Apart" is a interesting novel example that uses
Historical events recreations for a certain time range
Geographic, Ethnic and
Gender-based responsibilities to give examples of Identity, who people are and what they think.
A thesis statement is the main idea of an essay expressed in one
sentence.
A thesis statement is the primary controlling idea or opinion holding
your writing together, the basic message you want your writing to
express
A thesis statement is never phrased as a question
A thesis statement never expresses only a fact
QUOTES: Your essay must use at least 2 quotes, which must be properly cited.
Chapters 1–3
QUOTE 2:
[Okonkwo] had a slight stammer and whenever he was angry and could not get his words out quickly enough, he would use his fists.
Pages 8-9)
He had no patience with unsuccessful men. He had no patience with his father.
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered.
As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. (CF: similar respect now?)
Umuofia was feared by all its neighbors. It was powerful in war and in magic, and its priests and medicine men were feared in all the surrounding country. Its most potent war-medicine was as old as the clan itself. Nobody knew how old.
The following 2 quotes are relevant to women because women provide nourishment and care for the men by cooking and their bodies:
Yam, the kind of crops, was a man’s crop. (Chapter 3)
Chapters 4-6
‘Looking at a king’s mouth,’ said an old man, ‘one would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.’ (Chapter 4)
Nwoye always wondered who Nnadi was and why he should live all by himself, cooking and eating. In the end he decided that Nnadi must live in that land of Ikemefuna’s favorite story where the ant holds his court in the splendor and the sands dance forever.
[S]omehow Okonkwo could never become as enthusiastic over feasts as most people. He was a good eater and he could drink one or two fairly big gourds of palm-wine. But he was always uncomfortable sitting around for days waiting for a feast or getting over it. He would be very much happier working on his farm.
Okonkwo cleared his throat and moved his feet to the beat of the drums. It filled him with fire as it had always done from his youth. He trembled with the desire to conquer and subdue.
It was like the desire for woman.
The drummers stopped for a brief rest before the real matches. Their bodies shone with sweat, and they took up fans and began to fan themselves. They also drank water from small pots and ate kola nuts. They became ordinary human beings again, talking and laughing among themselves and with others who stood near them.
Mr. McCloskey
8:41 AM
Please provide me with an update of you're doing with your final paper. Please know that it is due THIS Friday (5/22). If you have any questions on how to get started, today would be the day to ask. Only two more nights to work on this, PLEASE use your time wisely.
*No additional assignment. PLEASE just work on your final
END DO NOW
Gilgamesh: https://uruk-warka.dk/Gilgamish/The%20Epic%20of%20Gilgamesh.pdf
The Odyssey: https://librivox.org/the-odyssey-by-homer/?q=macbeth&search_form=advanced
Things Fall Apart: http://marul.ffst.hr/~bwillems/fymob/things.pdf
Make sure you you open the attached document. Please email me if you have any questions!
9th Grade English I FInal Essay
Throughout the year, we have focused on the theme of “Identity” within each of the works we covered. For your final, I would like to write a 1 page essay on how we’ve explored that theme in class.
Directions:
Your essay must focus on the theme of “identity”
Your essay can focus on one particular title (Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, or Things Fall Apart) OR can compare how “Identity” is explored within multiple titles. (For example, you can write 5 paragraphs on just The Odyssey OR you can compare the differences in identity between The Odyssey and Things Fall Apart).
Focus on THINGS FALL APART
Although your essay doesn’t have to be 5-paragraph form, it’s probably easiest to.
Your Intro paragraph MUST contain a clear thesis statement. Please see the thesis formula that we’ve used throughout the year at the bottom of this page.
Your essay must use at least 2 quotes, which must be properly cited. You’re free to use more than 2 if you so choose.
The title is taken from the Yeats poem on page 6.
FIRST QUOTE CAN BE: CHAPTER 1, PAGE 8
"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond,.
His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler..."
"
This is like our current boxing matches or Olympics or other sports where fans root for a certain city.
This is a type of identity.
Your essay should be at least a page in length.
QUESTION(S) TO BE EXPLORE WITH YOUR THESIS STATEMENT.
What were the complexities of “identity” within this piece (or multiple pieces)?
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/126117/12/08_chapter2.pdf
There are different factors of identity.
1. Gender: Masculine/Femine: Okonkwo thought his father and son identified too "Feminine"
2. Religious: Christian versus Indigenous.
3. Cultural : European versus African
4. Character: Rigid or Flexible (Okonkwo is rigid and in the end died because of this)
How did the author create a central character with complications of identity?
The author shows us flaws.
He shows by example and dialogue some good and bad things about gender in the stereotypes Masculinity and Femininity. From the standpoint of European history taught in school, he shows us some of the things left out that we can read about here in African culture.
Okonkwo has flaws as we all do.
The story is a tragedy because in the end his flaws lead to his death.
The story makes the reader feel anger, pity and fear.
Why were there conflicts between the character’s personal beliefs and actions throughout the story?
The conflicts make the story interesting.
In addition to Okonkwo's conflicts we see how his wives get along.
Igbo versus European the high level conflict.
Igbo is a society that cannot survive and unaltered in the modern world.
But the modern world invaded.
"Things Fall Apart" because the Europeans invaded.
But the modern world invaded.
"Things Fall Apart" because the Europeans invaded.
How did the central character’s identity change throughout the story?
Story starts relating he is the son of an father he considers effeminate.
He matures into a man who has a son he considers to be effeminate.
Identity crisis in Psychiatry
- a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person's sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society.
Thus high school students should be able to relate. Especially METS all moving on to another school soon and maturing from childhood to young adulthood.
Thesis Statement Formula used for writing arguments:
SUBJECT + WRITER’S ATTITUDE + REASONS + REASON + REASON =
THESIS STATEMENT
Subject + attitude + reasons
"Things Fall Apart" is a interesting novel example that uses
Historical events recreations for a certain time range
Geographic, Ethnic and
Gender-based responsibilities to give examples of Identity, who people are and what they think.
A thesis statement is the main idea of an essay expressed in one
sentence.
A thesis statement is the primary controlling idea or opinion holding
your writing together, the basic message you want your writing to
express
A thesis statement is never phrased as a question
A thesis statement never expresses only a fact
QUOTES: Your essay must use at least 2 quotes, which must be properly cited.
Chapters 1–3
QUOTE 2:
[Okonkwo] had a slight stammer and whenever he was angry and could not get his words out quickly enough, he would use his fists.
Pages 8-9)
He had no patience with unsuccessful men. He had no patience with his father.
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered.
As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. (CF: similar respect now?)
Umuofia was feared by all its neighbors. It was powerful in war and in magic, and its priests and medicine men were feared in all the surrounding country. Its most potent war-medicine was as old as the clan itself. Nobody knew how old.
The following 2 quotes are relevant to women because women provide nourishment and care for the men by cooking and their bodies:
Yam, the kind of crops, was a man’s crop. (Chapter 3)
Chapters 4-6
‘Looking at a king’s mouth,’ said an old man, ‘one would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.’ (Chapter 4)
Nwoye always wondered who Nnadi was and why he should live all by himself, cooking and eating. In the end he decided that Nnadi must live in that land of Ikemefuna’s favorite story where the ant holds his court in the splendor and the sands dance forever.
[S]omehow Okonkwo could never become as enthusiastic over feasts as most people. He was a good eater and he could drink one or two fairly big gourds of palm-wine. But he was always uncomfortable sitting around for days waiting for a feast or getting over it. He would be very much happier working on his farm.
Okonkwo cleared his throat and moved his feet to the beat of the drums. It filled him with fire as it had always done from his youth. He trembled with the desire to conquer and subdue.
It was like the desire for woman.
The drummers stopped for a brief rest before the real matches. Their bodies shone with sweat, and they took up fans and began to fan themselves. They also drank water from small pots and ate kola nuts. They became ordinary human beings again, talking and laughing among themselves and with others who stood near them.
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