Submission

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Preparation for Essay One Informal Prewriting Practice: Focus on Part I, 1-2 Due Friday, September 3 in the Pre-writing Submission Folder (one full typed double-spaced page of Prewriting on each story--two pages total. Fill the page with prewriting. No formal heading, just a header with your last name and page number in one file). Note the sample header in the right margin above. Review the informal outline or tree diagram—your preliminary outline for essay one is due Tuesday, September 7.

Part I: Prewriting Activities: Focus on freewriting and brainstorming. For additional invention techniques, you can write any of the others that you would like. 1. Freewriting: (Automatic writing) Fill a page responding to the topic without revising or censoring your thoughts. Do not stop writing. Write whatever comes to your mind as you focus on the subject. Fill one page freewriting on an issue in the story or on an element of fiction, such as the setting, characters, the conflict development or plot, or the narrator’s point-of-view. 2. Brainstorming: Create a list of ideas related to the issues or fictional elements in the story. Like free-writing, include all potential ideas. Do not judge or reject any ideas related to the topic. Each idea should be a phrase of at least 3-5 words but does not need to be a complete sentence. You should be writing so quickly that you have typos. These typos will indicate that you are following directions and writing quickly, so do not stop to correct them. The automatic technique will enable you to collect many more ideas. 3. Clustering: (writing and nonlinear drawing) Write the main topic in the center of the page. List related ideas around the main idea leaving room to add additional words/ideas to each related topic. Begin a clustering activity on an issue in either story. Fill all of the space on the page to keep extending your ideas. 4. Cubing (considering a subject from six points of view) (For a literary analysis use a subject such as the setting of the story, a central character, or the narrative point of view)

1. *Describe* it (What images come to your mind? Include colors, shapes, smells, tastes, and sounds.)

2. *Compare* it (What is it similar to?) 3. *Associate* it (What does it make you think of?) 4. *Analyze* it (Examine it in sections or parts.) 5. *Apply* it (How does it relate to your life or our world?) 6. *Argue* for or against an issue that it addresses.

Complete a Cubing activity on an issue in either of the readings that you prefer to focus on. Select an issue that you have developed in one of the previous activities.

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5. Journalistic Questions: Who is the short story about? What happened and what were the results? When did it happen? Where? Why? How? After completing the short, informal practices of 3- 5 prewriting activities, select the two prewriting strategies that you found most productive and develop a full typed page of writing in response to each of the short stories (2 pages in total). These writing responses will enable you to decide which story you would like to analyze and to generate ideas to potentially develop your essay. Part II: Tree Diagram or Preliminary Outline Write a tentative thesis sentence stating the narrowed topic, your argumentative claim about that topic and the four subtopics your paper will examine to support this claim. Make a chart (use the form posted in Module Two) with your thesis followed by 4 main sub-topics for four paragraphs of the body of your paper. Under each main topic heading, branch down to four ideas that relate to it. Include a quote from the story to relate to each main topic. Submit the document to the Essay One Submission Folder for the informal outline or tree diagram. Continue to examine your essay one process, the strength of your thesis, and the four paragraph subtopics you have selected to provide evidence in support of your thesis.