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This assignment requires you to locate and evaluate sources, to locate and evaluate data, to practice with research note-taking strategies and citations using ML documentation, paraphrasing summarizing and direct quotes, to formulate an arguable and provable theme statement, to integrate evidence and to write commentary which reflects analysis of research. The assignment also requires you to synthesize researched information with reading of a fictional text and to create a proper ML formatted works consulted page.
Assignment: You will write a brief, concise paragraph that addresses how our assigned social, cultural or political aspect of the Bio tribe contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. You will also be expected to turn in an ML formatted “Works Cited” page listing all sources used during the research process. The “essay” needs to address the following: How your topic reveals a theme of the novel Format: The format is quite specific, but is designed intentionally to ensure that you exhibit understanding of the basic elements of research without going beyond the expectations of the assignment.
You may vary sentence order, but you must use one of each type of researched concrete detail paraphrased, summarized and directly quoted). Essay should be in ML format (Times New Roman, double spaced, 1″ margins with the proper heading) and be accompanied by an ML formatted Works Cited page. -Format example for each sentence on the backside of this page- Thanks to Rachel Bear, Boise High School December 2013 Mrs..
Sally please follow the following Format: Sentence One: Thesis statement that names the title of the book, the research topic and makes a claim about how the topic contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole Sentence Two: A summarized piece of researched concrete detail that relates o thesis with proper ML format parenthetical citation. Sentence Three: a concrete detail (paraphrased, summarized or directly quoted with proper parenthetical citation) from Things Fall Apart that relates to the research in Sentence Two.
For example, if sentence two discusses some aspect of a masquerade, sentence three should refer to or show a masquerade in Things Fall Apart. Sentence Four: comment on how sentence two and three relate to the thesis statement Sentence Five: A direct quote, properly integrated into a sentence with a signal phrase, piece of researched concrete detail that relates to thesis with roper ML format parenthetical citation. Sentence Six: a concrete detail (paraphrased, summarized or directly quoted with proper parenthetical citation) from Things Fall Apart that relates to the research in Sentence Five.
For example, if sentence five discusses the Bio belief in multiple gods, sentence six should refer to a passage from Things Fall apart that relates to belief in multiple gods. Sentence Seven: comment on how sentence five and six relate to the thesis Sentence Eight: A paraphrased piece of researched concrete detail that relates to thesis with proper ML format parenthetical citation. Sentence Nine: a concrete detail (paraphrased, summarized or directly to the research in Sentence Eight.
For example, if sentence eight relates to missionaries appealing to the natives who have been kicked out of a tribe, sentence nine should refer to a passage from Things Fall Apart that reveals someone who has been kicked Out Of the tribe being interested in Christianity. Sentence Ten: comment on how sentence eight and nine relate to the thesis Sentence Eleven: Concluding sentence that wraps up the paragraph without simply repeating what has already been said.