The Great Gatsby culminating assignment. Using the following prompt and guidance develop a paper around the theme of a person’s perception and the loss of the American Dream.
What is the theme about perception that Fitzgerald develops throughout the novel? How does he develop this theme?
Write a literary analysis in which you state your response and logically and sufficiently support your response with claims. Support your claims with textual evidence including direct quotations with parenthetical citations. Use correct and effective words, phrases, syntax, usage, and mechanics to clearly communicate your analysis.
Be sure to:
Determine the theme that Fitzgerald develops.
Determine what Fitzgerald uses to develop this theme.
Analyze how Fitzgerald develops that theme.
Support your analysis with details from the text
Thesis statement is clear, states the claim, is one sentence, and is located at the end of the introduction paragraph (found in Section 5: Lesson 2).
Essay is organized according to the outline template (found in Section 5: Lesson 3)
No personal pronouns are used, such as I, me, my, you throughout the essay.
There are at least three body paragraphs.
Each piece of evidence (quote) is a phrase or one or two sentences only. The majority of your essay should be your own work, not quoted information.
Each piece of evidence (quote) is explained back to the main point.
Each piece of evidence follows the format found in the Citing Evidence and Examples using ICE
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Essay is organized using MLA format (found in Section 5: Lesson 4).