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Your Assigned Person or Event

I have assigned each one of you a person or event from the story. You will need to come up with three reasons of why this person or event is to blame most for the tragedy. If you can not think of three reasons, try these suggestions:

Phone a friend-ask a classmate for an idea or two
Go back and refresh your memory by reading parts of the story where the person is in the scene or the event takes place...what happens after that? That could be a reason.
Email or ask me. I can help you brainstorm.

****DO NOT GOOGLE SEARCH...YOU ARE SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR PLAGIARISM WHICH = ZERO***

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Find your assignment here:

Who is to blame options

Fill out the post-it note I give you with three reasons why your person or situation is at fault for Romeo and Juliet’s death. (5 points)

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Outline

Once you get your three ideas in persuasive order (weakest to strongest), fill out this outline and share it with me. Once I approve it, you may start on your paper.

Click here for the outline:

Who’s To Blame Outline

****Remember to “File” and “Make a Copy” to start typing your own outline.

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Rough Draft

You will need to use and cite the orange literature book and/or one website for this essay.

After your outline is approved, start working on your persuasive essay. You should use one of the following websites or the to cite in your text. I would try to use just one to make it easy for your works cited page!

1. Romeo and Juliet

2. Act 1, Prologue

3. Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Translation

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Self Edit

Persuasive Self Edit Checklist

_______Title _______Catchy beginning

______ Weakest to strongest Reasons in order _______5 sentences per paragraph

______ Topic Sentence in each paragraph _______Transition words-highlight please

_______Transition sentences at end of paragraphs ______Works Cited Page in alphabetical order

______In-text citations used wherever new info was used (FOR SURE 3 BODY PARAGRAPHS)

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Peer Edit

Persuasive Peer Edit Checklist

_______Title _______Catchy beginning

______ Weakest to strongest Reasons in order _______5 sentences per paragraph

______ Topic Sentence in each paragraph _______Transition words-highlight please

_______Transition sentences at end of paragraphs ______Works Cited Page in alphabetical order

______In-text citations used wherever new info was used (FOR SURE 3 BODY PARAGRAPHS)

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Peer Edit-

Pick a classmate that you can peer edit with. Send your paper to him or her and have them do the same.

Fill out this google form for his or her paper and they will do the same for yours:

Peer Edit Form

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Works Cited and In-Text Citations for Websites

**Remember to skip information that is not there and move on**

Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of the Article or Individual Page.” Title of the Website, Name of the Publisher, Date of Publication in Day Month Year format, URL.

Example:

McNary, Dave. “Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter Returning for ‘Bill and Ted Face the Music.’” Variety, Penske Media Corporation, 8 May 2018, variety.com/2018/film/news/bill-and-ted-3-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-1202802946/.

In Text Citation:

(First Word) .

Example: (McNary).

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Rubric

_____/5- Appropriate Title

_____/5- Catchy Beginning

_____/10- Introduction Paragraph-thesis, three reasons, transition into first reason

_____/30- 3 Reason Paragraphs- cited evidence, transitions

_____/10-Conclusion Paragraph- thesis restated, three reasons, good summary sentence

_____/10- Least to Best Reasons Order

_____/10- Use of transition words

_____/10- Grammar and Mechanics

_____/10- Works Cited and In-Text Citations

________/100-Total

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