Diploma Flashcards
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PR forms
Letter (business or hand written)
Short story
Diary entries
How do you pull the key features out of the essay question
You are looking for two human conditions and than a relational piece to pull them together.
There will also be an action to find.
Thesis making
Through the character (name here) the SS/Film directed/written by (Author/ director name here) illustrates/demonstrates the how individuals (topic here) which results (impact here)
How long should a PR be?
600-1200 (45-60 minutes)
What does the intro of a CA look like?
- Hook
- How that relates to the material- Have to state what book/story/ movie you are using and the author
- Quick background information (if you feel it needs it)
- Thesis
What does the body paragraph of a CA look like?
- General statement regarding the purpose and the point trying to be made in that paragraph - start it initially, however, consequently
- Lead sentence (quick sentence leading into your example -THIS IS WHERE YOU HELP TIE IT TO THESIS) x3
- Example x3
- Concluding sentence - Wrap up your point
What does a CA concluding paragraph look like?
- Restate thesis
- Summarize point made in B1
- Summarize point made in B2
- Summarize point made in B3
- Concluding sentence
How to make a thesis
Through the character________ The (Author/director) ________ of the (Short story / Film) _______ issistrates /demonstrates /depicts how individuals (topic) _________ (Effect) __________ (this is how human condition affects individuals)
What should your thesis do?
- Clearly answer the question being asked
- Be answerable in your initially, however, consequently essay.
- Include the character and author/ director
Top Choices to use in PR
- Letter (formal business 0r hand written to someone)
- Personal Essay
- Short Story
- Diary entries following a clear story line
How can you write a PR (POV)
Option 1) You are using their voice to tell their story
Option 2) You are writing a new story using what they experienced - very connected to what the sources experience.
What is the purpose of a PR
To carry the same essence of the character with ideas from the source using your own personal experiences.
- Write what you know
What are you looking for within the CA question
- You are looking for two human conditions that you will need to connect. (HC)
- There will also be something for them to relate to (relation piece)
Who is the author of the Paper Menagerie?
Ken Liu
Who is the director of Good Will Hunting?
Gus Van Sant (written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)
Who is the director of the Glass Castle?
Destin Daniel Cretton
What are the main events in Good Will Hunting
1) Solves math problems anonymously while working as a janitor
2) Will gets arrested for fighting
3) Meets Skylar
3) Professor Gerald Lambeau intervenes and sees his potential - gets him out of his sentence
4) Acting insincere with all therapists
5) Has a breakthrough with Sean
6) Will Pushes Skylar away - lies about his past doesn’t want her to see the messy stuff
7) Turns down job offers and continues to work low paying jobs - Doesnt think he deserves better
8) Its not your fault scene
9) Finally isn’t there when Chuckie knocks on the door
10) “Goes to see about a girl”
Main events in the glass castle
1) Getting burned by the fire
2) Maureen born
3) Rex working on plans for the glass castle but never letting it become a reality
4) Rex “Teaching” Jennette how to swim
5) Visiting / Staying with Grandparents - Exposing Rexs upbringing and how we can assume that he had a similar upbringing. sexual and physical abuse.
6) Jeanette asks him to stop and he faces major withdrawal.
7) Rex and Rosemary have a fight where rosemary almost falls out of a window
8) Rex allows Jeanette to almost be assaulted by a guy at the bar “though she could handle herself”
9) He learns she wants to move away and steals her savings
10) She moves away anyways
11) land discovery - Jeanette learns her family has had access to valuable land but never sold it.
12) Starts conflict and Jeanette has had enough of it.
13) When Rex is dying
14) Thanksgiving reflection
Jeanette realizes that she cant ignore who she is and where she comes from prompting her to go back and say goodbye to her Dad. That even though he made many mistakes and was an absent Father he helped shape he rinto who she is now. She is the steel forged from the fire, even if it was a dumpster fire.
