Thematic+Quotes+and+Writing

Writing with Thematic Quotes Below you will find a list of quotes that deal with the coming of age process. As you finish each quarter of your novel, you will choose any quote from the list below and compare it to the entire quarter of the novel that you have just finished. Use the steps below to write your mini-essay. The final writing should be 1-2 pages.

Steps to complete your writing:
 * Read each quote and **select one as your focus** for writing
 * **Brainstorm specific examples**from your novel that relate to/support your selected quote
 * Write down **page numbers** for each example in order to properly cite your examples in your writing
 * Reference your daily notes to find examples
 * **Outline your ideas**- introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion
 * Provide **specific examples** for each section of the outline
 * Use **quotes in MLA format**in each body paragraph to support the main idea
 * Example of MLA in-text citation: "The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party" (Green 3).
 * The parenthesis contains the author's last name and page number
 * Write a **rough draft**of your essay
 * **Write in 3rd person**, not 1st person (Do not write, I think...)
 * **Edit**your essay
 * Self-edit or edit with a peer. (Only peer-edit if your classmate is ready for this step!)
 * **Reread** your/peer's work
 * **Ask yourself:** Is this essay focused? Are my ideas well-developed and appropriately supported? Did I use specific examples from the novel to support my main ideas? Did I use at least one quote in MLA format in each body paragraph?
 * Write your **final essay**
 * PDF your document!!!
 * Submit through Hand-in Robot
 * **Due: Tuesday, October 25th**

Quotes:
1. “As we grow, we change. As we change, we grow.”

2. “[|For each age is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to birth.]” –William Edgar O’Shaughnessy

3. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” –Alex Carrel

4. All men should strive, to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. ~James Thurber

5. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ~Henry David Thoreau

6. “If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. “ ~Gelett Burgess

7. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~Nelson Mandela

8. “And if you go in, should you turn left or right…or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it’s not, I’m afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.” –Dr. Seuss

9. “We were born with our eyes wide open, so alive with wild hope now.” –David Gray

10. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

11. “Don’t you fear, what you don’t know. Just let that be, your room to grow.” –Ben Harper

12. “Shades of grey wherever I go, the more I find out the less that I know. Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.” –Billy Joel