Choose Prompt 1 or Prompt 2. Posted below. Write a formal essay of about 1000 wi

Choose Prompt 1 or Prompt 2. Posted below.
Write a formal essay of about 1000 with words but please stay under 1,200 words.Include accompanying material. Copy and paste the poem or lyrics to the song.
Include a process analysis. SAMPLES
Format your essay in MLA style
For this essay, your central idea and thesis should follow one of the patterns in the samples. Include the central idea and thesis in your introduction and underline both or designate each one.To designate, name the (CENTRAL IDEA) and (THESIS) in this way.
See the sample introduction on how to formulate and connect a central idea and thesis and how to designate it.
The thesis should include at least two elements or devices you will focus on in the essay to prove your central idea. Elements or devices: tone diction, personification, metaphors, symbols, similes, repetition, alliteration, irony, assonance, rhyme, rhythm. etc. See literary terms for complete list.
See links to samples below.
Be sure to include your central idea, on the three methods of experiencing, interpreting and evaluating the poem or song in the topic sentences in the body of your essay and in their development.All three do not have to appear in each topic sentence or paragraph.
Each paragraph should have its own topic sentence that combines the central idea and one reason or topic stated in your thesis in some way. See links to samples below. Make the first or second sentence of each body paragraph your topic sentence and underline it. Each topic sentence should be one sentence long.
Include at least 5 short quotes from your song and poem. Or you may references line numbers from the poem or song. Do not use a quote in the essay\’s introduction or in topic sentences.
Give your essay a title that reflects the central idea in some way.
REMINDERS: 1. Paste a copy of the poem or lyrics and number the lines. 2: Include a Process Analysis
SEE RUBRIC BELOW FOR DETAILED GRADING CRITERIA.
PROMPT 1
In combining all three methods–experiencing, interpreting and evaluating–which poem or song were you able to connect with most and how through the three methods? It doesn\’t have to be to the same degree.
PROMPT 2
You explored poems and songs in casebooks. In combining all three methods–experiencing, interpreting and evaluating–which casebook were you able to connect with most and how through the three methods? It doesn\’t have to be to the same degree.
Before you begin to write, you should jot down a few things in your notebook:
The difference between experiencing, interpreting and evaluating a poem or song
How to write about your experience, interpretation and evaluation of one or more texts
What the poem or song lyrics are about. What the attitude (tone) of the poet is toward the subject. The elements/devices within the poem and how they are used.
Brainstorm on your experience of the poem(s) or song(s). Explore the feelings, memories or ideas that an image, word or phrase stirs up in you. List them. Brainstorm on your interpretation of the poem(s)/song(s)
Draw a conclusion about the MEANING of the poem(s) or song(s) so you can include your interpretation. This meaning should go beyond what the poem is about. Brainstorm on your evaluation of the work(s).
Number the lines of the poem so you can reference or quote from them.
See the sample outlines and same introduction and first body paragraph with topic sentence for second body paragraph. The prompt is slightly different, but the sample two paragraphs should give you a good idea on how to stay focused on developing your central idea through one reason (element) stated in the thesis.
See sample outlines.
Sample introduction and first body paragraph on one of the assigned poems. The prompt was a bit different, but the two paragraphs should give you a good idea on how to stay focused on developing your central idea through one reason (element) stated in the thesis
Sample Reader-Response essay Download Sample Reader-Response essayby student in previous class who received an A
ReviewAssigned pages in our Roberts text.
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Hint on Format: Shorter quotes of poetry three lines or less are integrated into the flow of the general writing. Quotes that take up more than 4 lines in your essay are indented 10 spaces and unless included in the passage, quotation marks are
Poetry: Lecture Notes
Poetry: MLA Guidelines
Weekly Overview, Reading & Writing Assignments (includes link to policies page)