Things Fall Apart

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Things Fall Apart

• Essay notes

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Format 2 point deduction now

• Times New Roman
• Size 12
• Double space
• Indent paragraphs
• Name, due date and class period
• Center/capitalize title

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Reminders

• Turnitin.com
• Class ID 3550576
• Password writing
• Set up and cite all quotes
• Eliminate Rip words (2 points each now)
• Follow outline exactly

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Tips

• Use a variety of names for a character
• Have an exciting and intriguing title
• Sentence variety
• (compound and complex)
• Use a first draft to help you. Most issues can be
  fixed!

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GoalsUse your Julius Caesar essay

• What do you need and want to improve upon from
  last time? Be specific. What grammar? What part
  of organization?
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.

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Using Quotes

• If you choose dialogue, nothing has changed.
  Occasion, speaker and tag.
• When he needed assistance in starting he farm,
  Okonkwo reluctantly asked, If you give me some
  seeds I shall not fail you (Achebe 21)
• If the part you want is just narration, use a
  part of a sentence inside your own sentence. The
  sentence should read as one, complete thought.
• Okonkwo was famous through all nine villages
  because he was like a cat whose back would never
  touch the earth (Achebe 3).
• first word of quote is not capitalized
• Cite with author last name and page number. The
  period still does on the outside.

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Outline

• Intro
• hook image with sensory details
• Background connect hook to the book use Achebe
  and Things Fall Apart
• Thesis last
• --------------------------------------------------
  ---------------------------------------------
• Body Paragraphs
• Topic sentence
• Quote
• Commentary (2)
• Quote
• Commentary (2)
• Concluding sentence
• --------------------------------------------------
  ---------------------------------------------
• Conclusion
• After careful consideration of, ______________,
  one can conclude that _____
• __________________________________________________
  ____________.
• Loop back to your hook in an interesting way to
  tie it all together.