- Review "The Masque of the Red Death."
- "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842)
- Take the scantron quiz on short stories and terms.
*Essay Prompt: How does a writer's technique (use of literary devices) support a theme that teaches us something deeply meaningful about life?
- Tonight, in your composition books, compose a thesis and topic sentences for tomorrow. We will review them in class.
- Forming a thesis:
- Choose a story you really enjoyed.
- Consider what you learned from the story
- Form that into a theme.
- Consider how three elements support that theme.
- Construct that into a thesis.
- Now compose three topic sentences that support your chosen thesis.
Example:
- I love "A Piece of Chalk" by G. K. Chesteron.
- I learned that we often fail to recognize the glory of the interesting world we live in. We have to look with fresh eyes on old things.
- Chesterton's imagery, paradox (or irony), and narrative perspective all help make the writing stronger to support that theme I love.
- Thesis: G. K. Chesterton's essay, "A Piece of Chalk," reminds us that our seemingly dull world is actually wonderful; and his narrative perspective, imagery, and paradox all effectively support his beautiful theme.
- Topic sentences:
- Chesterton's first-person perspective leads the reader magically through the narrator's own surprises.
- Chesterton's rich imagery helps the reader re-vision the world, foreshadowing the theme before it emerges more explicitly.
- Chesterton's clever employment of paradox reverses expectation and prepares the reader to see our seemingly dull world as, in fact, a land of fresh life and wonder.
HW: Please write a solid thesis and three topic sentences tonight in your composition books to share with us tomorrow (yes, we're building this more slowly than first anticipated).
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