Homework: Create an outline for the text of ELA Regents Session I Part 2, January '06

Text Outline:
First Paragraph
-the author tells a personal experience of an encounter with a Manatee, which catches the reader's attention
Body Paragraphs
-the following finishes the experince with the Manatee
-after that, the reader is also informed about how the Manatee's population has decreased over the years.
-it later talks about past alternatives for this endangered species and how people have tried to help
-then we later here about future alternatives to save this endangered species
Last Paragraph
-here the narrator discusses his personal experience in helping a Manatee recover over an accident, making the reader feel compasion over the Manatees so that he/she also can help save this endanger species.

Questions on Session One Part B

Ms. Hyde Assignment:
Let's take a look at a past ELA Regents Part 2 exam and do the following:
Read the entire text and graph.

Read the instructions and answer the following:
1.What kind of texts do you expect to read? In this part of the regents I think that the text will relate to the graph. For example, the text can support the endangered species of the Manatees such as in what ways we can help. But the text could also challenge the graph. Either way we can infer that the text will have a relation to the graph.

2.What is a graph, and what kind of information does it elicit? A graph will explain information through comparing and contrasting the text. The graph can explain in easier terms what the text is arguing.

3.How can you compare the two:graph and the text? Both the text and the graph can talk about the same things. But at the same time, both can disagree wth each other, they could have different points of view over the same topic.

4.What are they asking you to do in this essay? In this essay the reader is asked to take into consideration the fact the the Manatees are an endangered species and to do something about this to prevent this.

5.Is this a persuasive or informative essay? Why? This is an informative essay because it is informing the reader about the Manatees Endangerment and what effective ways exist. This essay also focuses on the side that the Manatees are killed and how much they suffer because of what we do. Therefore we can conclude that it is an informative essay so that we can also save the Manatees.

6.What thesis statement can you possibly write for this essay? The thesis statement of this essay is: Manatees in Florida are endangered and there are three effective methods that exist to save them.

7.What if they wanted you to write a Letter to a senator, then how many paragraphs would you write? I would write a minimum of 4 paragraphs so that the Senator would be convinced that I know what I am talking about.

Key Note: if you refer to ONLY the text without referring to the graph, then your essay cannot score above 3. THEREFORE, YOU MUST REFER/CITE BOTH TEXT AND GRAPH TO SCORE ABOVE 3 providing you address the situation and write a well structured essay.

August Wilson's Bio with Works Cited and Plot of Fences

August Wilson (1945-2005)

He was born as Frederick August Kittel on April 27,1945 in Hill District, Pittsburgh, PA. His father was German and his mother was African American. Not much is said about his school life except when he goes to High School at Central Catholic High School, but there he receives threats and abuse and thus changes school. Afterwards he goes to Connelley Vocational proves to not be right school for him. He then goes to Gladstone High School in 1960, but drops out of HS in 10Th grade when a teacher accused him of plagiarizing a 20-page paper on Napoleon. From there on he gets his education at the library and on the street. From 1962-63, Frederick August Wilson worked in many places as a porter, short-order cook, gardener, dishwasher and even enlisted in the army for three years but only lasted one. After a hard time, in 1987 Fences opens on Broadway and wins wins Pulitzer with an income of $11 million in its first year (Broadway's record for a non-musical). Of course he had other literary works such as The Piano Lesson (1990) ,a Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Below is a list of some other awards he received found on Wikipedia:

1985: New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1985: Tony Award nomination for Best Play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1987: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, Fences
1987: New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Fences
1987: Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Fences
1987: Tony Award for Best Play, Fences
1988: Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library
1988: New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Joe Turner's Come and Gone
1988: Tony Award nomination for Best Play, Joe Turner's Come and Gone
1990: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, The Piano Lesson
1990: New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Piano Lesson
1990: Tony Award nomination for Best Play, The Piano Lesson
1990: Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Piano Lesson
1992: American Theatre Critics' Association Award, Two Trains Running
1992: New York Drama Critics Circle Citation for Best American Play, Two Trains Running
1992: Tony Award nomination for Best Play, Two Trains Running
1996: New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Seven Guitars
1996: Tony Award nomination for Best Play, Seven Guitars
1999: National Humanities Medal
2000: New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Jitney
2000: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, Jitney
2001: Tony Award nomination for Best Play, King Hedley II
2002: Olivier Award for Best new Play, Jitney
2004: The Freedom of Speech Award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
2005: Make_Shift Award at the U.S. Confederation of Play Writers.
2007: Tony Award nomination for Best Play, Radio Golf

The time period in which this book took place is so important because it was the time where the civil right movement was at it's climax. At the same time it was very important because during the 1950 women were also gaining lots of rights. The time period plays a very important role because it affected the characters in a certain way.

Characters from Fences:

Troy Maxson: 53 year old heavy man who is African American. He is married to Rose and has 3 kids: Lyons, Cory and Raynell. His best friend is Bono and is always talking about how they have to be faithful to their wives.

Jim Bono: He is Troy's best friend who advises Troy to always be fair to his wive. They both have what is known between them "man talk".

Rose: Troy's faithful wife who ends up raising Raynell, daughter of Troy and Alberta.

Lyons: Troy's son with a previous marraige, shows up on rare occations.

Gabriel: Brother of Troy.

Cory: The son of Troy and Rose, plays on the football team but yet seems as an unwanted child of Troy because of the way he treats him.

Raynell: Daughter of Troy's affair with Alberta, she is innocent and has no fault of anykind based on what Troy did.

Alberta: Woman who Troy had an affair with.

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PLOT of FENCES:

1.Exposition-1957 at Troy's backyard. He is having a conversation with Bono about their day at work. August Wilson presents the time to be very cool, calm and dry.

2.Rising Action-Troy buys a drink to a woman named Alberta, Bono just warns him to fair with Rose because she is a very good woman.

3.Climax-Troy's conscience bothers him after meditating on what Bono said and thus confesses to Rose that he will a future father of a child with Alberta. On her rage, Rose flips out and doesn't find an explaination as to why Troy would do such a thing.

4.Falling Action-Troy knows that he must leave to see his new born child, and then with time brings her home where Rose raises her.

5.Result/Conclusuion-Raynell is the name of his daughter who has now grown tothe age of 7. Troy dies and the play ends with his funeral.

One of the 2 critical lens quote developed into a complete outline

August 2006 ELA Critical Lens & Level 6A essay:
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
—Bernadette Devlin
The Price of My Soul, 1969
Two Works of Literature/Authors:
-Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
-A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Intoduction: -is already done and revised!-
"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else" is a quote by Brenadette Delvin which means that in order to gain certain things in life, sometimes sacrifices will have to be made. I agree with this quote because personally I had to make sacrifices in order to gain other things that were for my own benefit. A similar scenario is placed with Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl when she had to sacrifice her family life to gain freedom even when there were conflicts, especially because of her antagonist. Lorraine Hansberry portrayed a similar situation in A Raisin in the Sun through the point of view that the book was written in and the exposition that was placed when the Younger family had to sacrifice their comfort to gain a better life despite the fact that this family would have to receive racial comments in their new neighborhood.

Body1: Discussion of INLSG
-how Harriet Jacobs exposes conflicts as no obstacle when Linda Brent makes the appropriate sacrifices 'to gain what is worth'
-e.g. how hard it is to get the north
-how Harriet Jacobs tells how Linda had to face one antagonist indirectly and make sacrifices to gain her freedom
-e.g. Dr. Flint making her life miserable

Body2: Discussion of A Raisin in the Sun
-how Lorraine Hansberry's writing in point of view tells how important it became for the Younger family to make sacrifices to gain a better life
-from the African American family point of view, who had to face segregation
-how Lorraine Hansberry points out the importance of the exposition, involving even larger and harder sacrifices to be made
-e.g. in the 1960s, civil right movement inspires and affects how this family was willing to do whatever was necessary

Body3: Comparing and Contrasting
-explaining how different authors had the same central idea that Bernadette Devlin had but used different literary elements
-restate quote and apply

Conclusion:Briefly summarize
-state the point of the quote
-2 authors, same idea
-quick overview of idea

Analysis of 2 Critical Lens Quotes (you had to write the introductory paragraphs)

August 2006 ELA Critical Lens & Level 6A essay: “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
—Bernadette Devlin
The Price of My Soul, 1969
Two Works of Literature/Authors:
-Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
-A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else." is a quote by Brenadette Delvin which means that in order to gain certain things in life, sometimes sacrifices will have to be made. I agree with this quote because I personaly had to make sacrifices in order to gain other things that were for my own benefit A similar scenario is placed with Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl when she had to sacrifice her family life to gain freedom. Lorraine Hansberry potrayed a similar situation in A Raisin in the Sun when the Younger family had to sacrifice their comfort to gain a better life despite the fact that this family would have to recieve racial comments in their new negihborhood.

August 2005 ELA Critical Lens & Level 6A essay: “I like flawed characters because somewhere in them I seemore of the truth.”
— Nicolas Cage, as quoted in“His Truth is Out There”from Los Angeles Times,November 12, 2000
Two works of Literature/Authors:
-Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

“I like flawed characters because somewhere in them I seemore of the truth.” by Nicolas Cage means to me that some chararcters, the least expected, can demonstrate a character full of truth and justice. I agree with this qoute because looks can decieve, in other words, the characters you least expected can surprise you and sometimes with the most important turning point in a book. Ray Bradbury characterised a personality like the one that Nicolas Cage described with Guy Montag in Farenheit 451 because he found a different person inside of him. And Happre Lee did as well with To Kill a Mockingbird when Tom knew that the truth was all he spoke when he was accused of something he didn't do.