Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Julius Caesar and The Odyssey

TOPIC:

Compare the two works of literature. Use your brainstorm, find a connective thread, and prove it to be true using evidence of the text.

RUBRIC:

_____/5: Introduction: engaging hook, stated topic, indicates the titles and author of each work, thesis

_____/15: Body Paragraphs: topic sentences that support your thesis, examples and citations from the text are used to support your topic sentences and your thesis. Analysis of the citations indicates an understanding of the literature and shows a strong connection between the two.

_____/5: Conclusion: Summarizes the essay, adds the “so what” and give some food for thought, lesson, moral, etc


_____/10: MLA format: heading, headers, title, margins, works cited page, proper citations, final copy ready!

_____/15: Turnitin: submitted and uploaded to turnitin.com by the start of class.

4 comments:

Timothy Connolly said...

How do we cite the odyssey?

alexia said...

i know we have done this a million times..but do we have to upload our works cited to turnitin? && i have the same question as timmy's.

Unknown said...

To Tim an Alexia, I think she said cite it as a magazine article

alexia said...

ohh yeah thx =]