Regents Prep: Critical Lens—Due Monday Nov. 29—P2 and P7 and Tues. Nov. 30 P3 and P8

In preparation of Jan. 11, 2011 English Regents: Take

“Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.”
Stephen R. Covey


Using the following quote:

1. Agree or disagree with statement
2. Interpret quote
3. Correlate to two novels read within the last three months
4. Write a Standard 5-Paragraph Essay



Be sure to be mindful of:

1. include Literary Devices
2. formulate a solid Thesis Statement (with these Lit. Devs.)
3. watch grammar and other syntax
4. TRANSITIONS
5. Read out loud
6. Make edits prior to submitting
7. Include TITLES and AUTHORS of all sources
8. Do not SUMMARIZE plots
9. INCLUDE QUOTE, AUTHOR within TS Paragraph!!! (do NOT say, "The quote above...."
10. Have a HOOK or Lead in "Everyone is looking for......." or "There comes a time in everyone's life when......."
11. avoid "Throughout history..." and "Since the beginning of time......"

Hints: Literary Devices= metaphor, allegory, allusion, alliteration, rhyme scheme (end, slant, couplets, etc.), characterization, climax, simile, theme (Over-arching IDEAS such as Othering, Fear); Genre such as (Memoir, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Autobiography, Non-Fiction, Journal, Article, etc.);

Native Son, The Namesake, “The Crucible”, “Roots”, “Notes on the State of Virginia”, The History of Mary Prince, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley


P5, already having done an In-Class Critical Lens QoD writing will have to revise those for Monday, Nov. 29 = 5 Paragraph Essay will ALL THE ABOVE qualities, TNR size 12, 1" margins all around.

P5 Quote: "The soul that is within me no man can degrade," by Fredrick Douglass