ATE Paragraph and Claim Assignment

"The Airborne Toxic Event"
Authors often use major plot events to represent larger ideas and issues. What happens exactly, and how the characters react, and the events that result often help to illustrate the theme and point of a work as a whole. With this in mind, discuss the significance of “The Airborne Toxic Event” as an example of a plot event that serves the purpose of communicating Delillo's message in White Noise. (15 minutes)

Claims:

1. The supermarket remains a source of comfort and reassurance for Jack, but Delillo suggests that the security he feels there may be illusory and that Jack, at times, has a sense of that superficiality (159-162).
2. The post-ATE sunsets function as a symbol of the paradoxical nature of Jack and Babette’s life in the postmodern consumerist society they inhabit (162).
3. Knowledge, especially if validated by authority - whether trivial, forecasted, scientific, or hypothetical - is a source of controversy, confidence and anxiety (163, 166-169).
4. Devise and define your own claim about Babette and Dylar.

Reading Schedule and Final

1/19 (A) and 1/22 (B) through page 230
Final: AP Practice Multiple Choice
Finish Reading White Noise for First Day of Semester 2

Reading

Be through
the end of Chapter 26
on page 193
for Wednesday and Thursday.

The Airborne Toxic Event

Finish reading this second seciton by Friday 1/16 (A day) or Monday 1/19 (B day).

Next Class White Noise

Complete reading through the end of the "Waves and Radiation" section on page 104.

Have at least one episode in mind that we have not previously discussed that can be used to illustrate the ideas of white noise as a concept and its application to the thematic concerns the novel.

Your new noise and some of it is white

A World Transfixed by Screens

Short Story Essay Checklist

Proper MLA Format

• name class teacher date
• header with page numbering
• centered title
• 2x space, 12 point font
• in-text citations
• Works Cited page with hanging indents

Intro/Thesis

• intro discusses story or subject in general terms and flows into thesis

• subject assertion how shown/why/how

Body Paragraphs

• introduce idea (I) of paragraph which demonstrates an aspect of the thesis
• provide relevant details (D) with explanations of their meanings and significance (E)
• quote critical details (D) that are relevant to the idea being developed
• finish with analytic conclusion (AC) that directly ties point of paragraph to thesis: use key words
• effectively use set-up phrases and transitions between and within paragraphs

Quotations

• mostly integrated quotes
• direct quotes utilize explanatory set-up phrase with a colon or comma before the sentence long quote
• provide key words and phrases which help explain
• do not merely repeat what has already been summarized or paraphrased
• citations at end of sentence only

Conclusion

• returns to thesis (not a mere repeat)
• feels like a resolution to essay
• consider using resolution of story or other critical moment to illustrate thesis

Rough Draft for Essay

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Due 12/15-16

SOLID rough draft for an essay with the focus of your choice on either "The Rocking-Horse Winner", "The Lottery" or "The Hand" and "The Story of an Hour".

Focus of grading will be on thesis quality, effective use of AC, and proper quotation flow and format.


I would suggest that "The Hand" and "The Story of an Hour" are the most straight-forward in their message; the other two are more subtle.

Homework Due 12/11 and 12/12

In an MLA formatted Google Doc, compose a thesis and a body paragraph to a hypothetical essay on either "The Lottery" or "The Rocking-Horse Winner".

Thesis should include subject, assertion, and how shown.

Body paragraph should include ISDE>AC. Be sure AC ties back to thesis.

Stories For Next Class

"The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence
complete story curve
come with written thesis and an outline of an essay that explains thesis

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
just read