Essential Questions (Rubric) A successful essay should explain: o

What central ideas/questions do both works address? HOW AND WHY??

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Do the authors agree or disagree with each other’s conclusions? HOW AND WHY??

A successful conclusion should explain: o

How the topic of the essay relates to the modern world?

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What is the lasting cultural contribution of these ideas our current lifestyles?

Focus for this 1PP  KEEP THIS IN MIND!! 

More examples do not directly equal a better score; focus instead on walking your reader through an idea, using text evidence as landmarks or tourist traps (things to point out as reference). o Avoid listing examples, instead keep your focus on your main idea and assess, praise, critique, evaluate, develop a logical argument, draw conclusions, hypothesize, differentiate, compare, contrast that ideas

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The purpose of this writing is to explore an idea, it is okay to discuss a change in perception/reaction you might have had as you read, or as we talked about the text in class

Format Guidelines Formatting Guidelines:  Font no larger than 12 point, no smaller than 10 point o Ariel o Times New Roman  It is still an academic essay; although tone and word choice are relaxed, they are not non-existent  Paragraphs must contain examples with citations from the text

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Include an original, creative title on the top o Centered, Bold o 14 Point font Paper will have MLA in text citation. o That means you use line numbers, not page numbers On the Back: o Handwrite your Name o Date and class period

Last Pieces of Advice Reflect on past writing and more importantly, writing practices. o

Where did you write last time?

 What external stimuli (music, TV, etc.) was present when o o o o o

you wrote last time? Don’t rush/short change the conclusion!! Is the title of the play in italics or quotes? Did you cite your quotes using MLA format?

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act, scene, line = (IV, iii, 3-5) Have you explained the significance of each quote and how it connects to the point you’re trying to make? Did someone other than you look at this essay?

 If not…find someone!!

Did your last 1 PP yield the results you hoped it would? If not, consider changing 1 or more of these aspects; the only thing to lose would be disappointment

Directions: Below you’ll find the poem, “Out, Out—“ by American poet, Robert Frost, and the selection from Macbeth that both inspired the poem and gave Frost his title. Write a one page essay (roughly 700-800 words) comparing the two works. Be sure to focus on explicating the Frost poem, while at the same time, connecting it with good ole Macbeth.

"Out, Out - " by: Robert Frost (1916)

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could count Five mountain ranges one behind the other Under the sunset far into Vermont. And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled, As it ran light, or had to bear a load. And nothing happened: day was all but done. Call it a day, I wish they might have said To please the boy by giving him the half hour That a boy counts so much when saved from work. His sister stood beside him in her apron To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw, As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant, Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap He must have given the hand. However it was, Neither refused the meeting. But the hand! Half in appeal, but half as if to keep The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all -

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. –Macbeth V, v, 23 - 28

Since he was old enough to know, big boy Doing a man's work, though a child at heart He saw all was spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!" So. The hand was gone already. The doctor put him in the dark of ether. He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath. And then - the watcher at his pulse took a fright. No one believed. They listened to his heart. Little - less - nothing! - and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. NOTE: the title of the poem is a quote, meaning you will have to put it in italics as well as including the quotation marks and the dash at the end.