First, let's do a Writing Portfolio assignment. This assignment will go in your Google Site as Assign #3.

Watch the Maslow Video at the bottom right of this page, then create a Google Doc for the following 2 Written Responses to post in your Google Site.

Maslow Response 3A:  Select a character from one of the short stories above and explain what level they are on Maslow's pyramid of needs. Use specific supporting evidence (can be a quote or specific moment explained) from the text to back up your statement.

Maslow Response 3B: Explain where you think you are on the pyramid and what you think it will take to attain happiness in your life using the ideas in the video. This involves some reflection and focus on what self-actualization could look like for you. This assignment is in the writing portfolio as it will help you with the next assignment. The personal values assessment will help as well and will be discussed in class. Remember to put Response 3A & B in the same doc. and submit to your writing portfolio google site.

Short Story Assignment 1 - Theme Statement - Write a theme(sis) statement and provide three quotations to support it. This is a warm-up exercise for Short Story Assignment 2.

Step 1: Read this article (click here) on how to properly write theme statements and use the template in the article. (Note that short stories will have full quotation marks around them, as in "The Paper Menagerie.")

Step 2: Write a theme statement on one of the stories you read above. Under that one sentence theme statement provide 3 quotations from the story/text that support your idea. Give a brief sentence or two analysis as to how each quotation supports your theme statement. Submit to 'Theme Statement' Dropbox in D2L. Assignment TEMPLATE LINK CLICK  HERE

Step 3: If you need a re-do based on your dropbox feedback in D2L contact your instructor and discuss a plan to work towards improvement. This is an important step in completing the C.A.R.T. (Short Story Assignment 2)

Short Story Assignment 2: Critical Analytical Response to Text 

  Make sure you read through the THREE documents below to help you with this assignment: 

• How to write a CART

• Thesis Development Planning

• Common Essay Mistakes  

Read through student exemplars from the Diploma Prep section across the top menu bar.  Also, watch the following video to learn how to embed quotations properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pedp6_WlVsM

ASSIGNMENT: Select one of the short stories above to respond to the following writing prompt: 

Discuss the idea(s) developed by the author in your chosen text about the nature of motivations that direct an individual's course of action.

Your theme statement for this CART is going to be different than the one in Short Story Assignment 1 (the warm-up) because now you have a topic to direct your thinking. Your theme statement will be a response to the question above. If you are not on topic, then you are not executing the task.