COLORS FOR ALLGERNON

DUE: _______ OR______

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Topic:
Choose three colors that you would consider to be symbolic oI Flowers for Algernon.
ates due or .
Consider:
SpeciIic Characters
The various stages oI Charlie Gordon
The various emotions oI Charlie Gordon
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Expository Essay Tips:
Expository essays require that the writer give inIormation, explain the topic or deIine something. To
accomplish that, they are best developed by the use oI Iacts and statistical inIormation, cause and eIIect
relationships, or examples. Since they are Iactual, they are written without emotion and usually written in the
third person. That means that the use oI the pronoun "I" is not usually Iound within the essay.
Expository essays also have a distinct Iormat.
O The thesis statement must be deIined and narrow enough to be supported within the essay.
O Each supporting paragraph must have a distinct controlling topic and all other sentences must Iactually
relate directly to it. The transition words or phrases are important as they help the reader Iollow along
and reinIorce the logic.
O inally, the conclusion paragraph should originally restate the thesis and the main supporting ideas.
inish with a statement that reinIorces your position in a meaningIul and memorable way.
O Never introduce new material in the conclusion.
Conditions of Acceptance:
Written: Typed: eductions will be made iI not Iollowed
Lined paper without ridges ouble Spaced
ark blue or black ink Blue or Black ink
-5 points a scratch out 12 ont Courier or Times New Roman
One Inch Margins

o not make a cover. Write your name, English Period , and date on right hand side oI paper.

Basic outIine for a five-paragraph essay:
A. ntroductory paragraph
Hook or intro to story.
DO NOT ASK A QUESTON
Provide a strong thesis statement


B. Supporting paragraph proving, illustrating point no. 1 of your thesis statement
Strongest
C. Supporting paragraph proving, illustrating point no. 2 of your thesis statement
Least strong
MUST USE TRASTON
D. Supporting paragraph proving, illustrating point no. 3 of your thesis statement
Second strongest
MUST USE TRASTON
E. Concluding paragraph
%ransitions:
ord that can be used to compare two things:
likewise also hile in the same way
Like as Similarly

ords that can be used to contrast two things:
But still Although on the other hand
however yet Otherwise even though

ords that can be used to emphasize a point:
again truly Especially for this reason
to repeat in fact
to
emphasize

ords that can be used to concIude or summarize:
finally as a result to sum up in conclusion
lastly therefore all in all because

ords that can be used to add information:
again another for instance for example
also and Moreover additionally
as well besides along with other
next finally in addition

ords that can be used to cIarify:
that is for instance in other words


Citing:
As long as you provided the author and title in the essay, you can use parenthetical
citation by putting the page # in ( ) beIore the period. but aIter the Iinal set oI
quotations.
Example:
Walter Allen insists that the "artistic expression" oI :9ering Heig9s is Ilawless
(223). Allen admits that the content is strange and even baIIling, but he argues that
the novel is perIect because it accurately presents "an intensely individual
apprehension oI the nature oI man and liIe" (223).

How to Incorporate Quotes:
This point is shown, depicted, exempliIied, proven, demonstrated.
The author or character states.
The character questions.
In Progress Report , Charlie writes

Ellipses can be used to cut oII quotes at the start or end.
'.he would not go ( 89).
'he would not go. (96).

CRCKLl51 FUR GUUb WRl1lNG

Put fer yes, N fer ne

ldeas
_____ has a olear message, purpose, main topio idea easily identified in a thesis.
0rganization
_____ has a olear beginning, middle and ending (lntroduotion, body, oonolusion/summary).
lt is easy to follow.
_____ has details used to support the main idea in a logioal way. 3PU
_____ eaoh paragraph has a unique idea (its own main idea), and relating details.
voioe
_____ uses a voioe that is appropriate for aoademio writing
3upport
_____speoifio evidenoe is given to support writing
_____ textual evidenoe is provided
_____ text is properly oited
word Choioe
_____ words are used oorreotly, their definitions fit the usage. 1he writing shows strong
vooabulary. 1he author defines unique and/or unfamiliar terms.
_____ the words used fit the level of the reader audienoe.
3entenoes
_____ flows smoothly from sentenoe to sentenoe when you read it. lt is not ohoppy.
_____ has no run-ons, fragments, or inoomplete sentenoes.
Conventions
_____ follows the rules of writing, uses proper grammar.
_____ uses proper spelling, spaoing, punotuation, oapitalization, and indentation.
_____ the subjeots and verbs agree.
_____ the tenses (past, present, future), don't ohange and/or are used oorreotly.

Check Iisf confinued:
Avoiding fhe horrors of essoy wrifing.
___I ovoided using firsf person I me or my.
___I ovoided using fexf foIk.
___I ovoided sIong ond symboIs.
___I used fhe reoder or fhe oudience is sfeod of you.
___I ovoided onnouncing sfofemenfs.
___I ovoided fhe using "In concIusion,."
___I ovoided soop boxing or giving speeches.
___I ovoided using pronouns fo sforf senfences.
___I wrofe on essoy os opposed fo o pIof summory.
___I ovoided over quofing.
___ I infroduced quofes.
___I wrofe in presenf fense.