Thematic+Quotes


 * Below you will find a list of quotes that deal with the coming of age process. Choose any quote from the list below and compare it to what you have read in the novel so far ****. This is a one-day timed writing and is due in my drop-box at the end of the class period. The final writing should include an intro and conclusion to frame your arguments. **


 * Steps: **
 * **Read each quote below and select one as your focus for writing. **
 * ** Brainstorm specific examples from your novel that relate to/support your selected quote. **
 * Reference your reading notes for help!! [[image:writing width="154" height="160" align="right"]]
 * Identify the page number that your textual support comes from in order to properly cite your examples in the writing
 * **Outline your ideas: introduction, body paragraphs, conclusions **
 * Provide specific examples from each section of the outline
 * Use quotes in MLA format in each body paragraph to support your 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).
 * **Edit your essay **
 * Self-edit or peer-edit. (Only peer-edit if your classmate is also ready for this step)
 * Ask yourself:
 * Is this essay focused?
 * Are my ideas well-developed AND appropriately supported?
 * Did I use specific examples from the text to support my main ideas?
 * Is my essay well organized and does it have a smooth flow?
 * **SUBMIT! **

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

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">3. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” –Alex Carrel

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">4. All men should strive, to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. ~James Thurber

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">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

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">6. “If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. “ ~Gelett Burgess

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">7. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~Nelson Mandela

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">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

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">9. “We were born with our eyes wide open, so alive with wild hope now.” –David Gray

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">10. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">11. “Don’t you fear, what you don’t know. Just let that be, your room to grow.” –Ben Harper

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">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