Mr. Sweetman

Step One : In a google document please create a list of criteria for writing a paragraph.  You may want to look at your notes on using a quotation, and find some general writing  guidelines on the web.  Make sure what you produce is written using your own words, and is not just a simple copy and paste. Please prepared to share your criteria... Step Two: Review of Paragraph Structure : The Topic Sentence: Example Explanation Example  Explanation Example  Explanation Summary Sentence Step Three : Read the poem below, and write a paragraph explaining the theme: The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both t

Emily Dickinson's "Little Bird" "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all, "And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. "I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me." (Emily Dickinson) This is an example of an extended metaphor.  How does the extended metaphor help convey the theme of the poem? Create a theme statement and select three quotations to support your statement.

Step One: make a list of five songs which you enjoy, and which you believe my have a central theme. Step Two: choose two of these songs and look up the lyrics to the song at:  www.lyrics.com Step Three: read the lyrics and determine the songs theme. Once you have determined the theme create a theme statement.  Remember to keep your theme statement short and concise. Step Four: select three separate lines (quotations) from the lyrics, which support your theme statement.