Step 3: Research your topic
(Your final draft must have at least 5 reliable sources. Do NOT use Wikipedia, Britannica, Sparknotes, or sites like that. You can use them to get initial ideas, but we’re looking for sources that provide additional information to the topic, not summaries. Google is not a source.)
*This will become your Works Cited Page!
Name of Source MLA Works Cited How to Create a Works Cited
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Step 4: Complete a Graphic Organizer
Introductory Paragraph:
Hook -should be a sentence or two - general, interesting statement about the topic
Connecting Sentence(s) - could be background information about your topic
Thesis - the argument you are making about your topic
3 MAIN POINTS - you will use to support your thesis. (These points should be sentences).
Supporting Paragraph 1:
Transition Word
Main Point #1
1st Piece of Evidence
Explanation of Evidence in your own words (how does it support your thesis?)
2nd Piece of Evidence (needs to be from a different source than 1st piece of evidence)
Explanation of Evidence in your own words (how does it support your thesis?)
Supporting Paragraph 2:
Transition Word
Main Point #2
1st Piece of Evidence
Explanation of Evidence in your own words (how does it support your thesis?)
2nd Piece of Evidence (needs to be from a different source than 1st piece of evidence)
Explanation of Evidence in your own words (how does it support your thesis?)
Supporting Paragraph 3:
Transition Word
Main Point #3
1st Piece of Evidence
Explanation of Evidence in your own words (how does it support your thesis?)
2nd Piece of Evidence (needs to be from a different source than 1st piece of evidence)
Explanation of Evidence in your own words (how does it support your thesis?)
Conclusion:
Transition Word + Restate your thesis:
Summarize Your 3 Main Points
Connect Everything to the BIG PICTURE - Why does it matter? What lesson can be learned?
How does the idea of the monster / supernatural evolve throughout the time periods and works we’ve studied this year?
William blake
The tyger
The lamb
The chimney sweeper
Wordsworth
Sonnet the world is to much with us
I wandered lonley as a cloud
Coolridge
Coolridge samuel taylor
The rime of ancient mariner
Kubla khan the rime of the ancient mariner
Lord bryon
For music
Stanza and meter
Percy dhelly
Odento the west wind
To a sky lark
John keats
On first looking into chapmans homer
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Ode in a grecian urn
Jane austen
Pride and prejudice
Mary shelly
frankenstein
Sources:
1. Smith, John. "William Blake's Influence on Romantic Literature." Journal of Romantic Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2019, pp. 45-60.
2. Johnson, Sarah. "The Supernatural Elements in Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'." British Literature Review, vol. 15, no. 4, 2020, pp. 78-92.
3. Brown, Emily. "The Representation of Monsters in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'." Gothic Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 112-125.
4. Jones, Robert. "Nature and the Supernatural in John Keats's poetry." Nature Studies Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017, pp. 34-49.
5. Williams, Laura. "Gender Politics in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'." Feminist Literary Criticism, vol. 30, no. 6, 2019, pp. 201-215.