ELA3105-ABED_1: 1.4 Short Story CRT Outline: Planning for 2.2 (FORMATIVE)

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Complete an essay outline on this topic: Explore how one of the Essential Questions (EQ) triggers the main character's transformation. This assignment is a lead-up to writing a critical/analytical response to a text (CRT) for 2.2.

Step 1	Choose one of the short stories from the 1.3a Short Story Analysis assignment. You may continue with the story you selected in assignment 1.3b or you may choose a new story. Use your annotated version. “On the Rainy River” (Tim O’Brien) “Two Words” (Isabel Allende) “Touching Bottom” (Kari Strutt) “The Shining Houses” (Alice Munro)
Step 2	Select an Essential Question (EQ). The topic for your essay is transformation and the topic found in the EQ you select. To what degree can an individual's choices and actions influence the direction of his or her life? Why is it important to be responsible to others on a personal, local, global, and/or digital level? What does it mean to be successful, and what role does failure play? How does an individual's perspective of, and response to, a crisis define him or her?
Step 3	Choose one of the planning guides in the Document Links below for your outline or create your own plan. Review carefully the information listed there as well as reviewing the tutorial on Writing an Effective Thesis. If you need help writing an amazing thesis statement, consider these helpful handouts on the Essential Questions: Choices & Actions, Responsibility to Others, Success and Failure, or Crisis. Note: The focus is on exploring the "how" of the topic. Review this helpful information regarding integrating quotations. thewritepractice.com provides a helpful piece of advice: Most essays answer the question "What?", Good essays answer the "Why?" and the Best essays answer the "How?" Critical response writing is more formal than personal response writing. Don't use first person singular pronouns ("I", "me", "my", etc.), first person plural pronouns ("we," "our," etc.), or second person pronouns ("you", "your", etc.). Don't use contractions either because they are considered to be informal language.
Step 4	Submit your critical essay outline. Please submit a PDF or MS Word file instead of sharing a Google doc link with me. It's a simple step to save your Google doc as a PDF and upload the PDF into Moodle. This saves you from having to remember to share your Google doc. Also, if I have a sub, the sub won't have access to your Google doc.

This formative assessment is "marked" out of 5. Your mark out of 5 represents the following:

5—excellent
4—proficient
3—basic
2—developing
1—underdeveloped

It is expected that you will download and review all of the files provided for formative assessments and that you will read, consider, and apply the suggestions to your future assignments. Learning cannot happen if you do not review all of the material, including the valuable feedback that is provided to you.

Your outline will be "marked" out of 5; your mark out of 5 represents the following:

5-excellent
4-proficient
3-basic
2-developing
1-underdeveloped

It is expected that you will download and review all of the feedback files provided for formative assessments and that you will read, consider, and apply the suggestions to your future assignments. Learning cannot happen if you do not review all of the material, including the valuable feedback that is provided to you.

Below are two completed outlines.

Amy's 1.4 Short Story CRT Outline_techniques

Kade's 1.4 Short Story CRT Outline_transformation

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