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Two Excerpts
Two Excerpts
Now that you have your global issue you need to identify the two excerpts that you are going to narrow in on.
Choose at most 40 consecutive lines from each text that do a good job of showing your global issue.
Create a PDF document using the official Excerpt form with BOTH excerpts.
What’s a literary work?
What’s a non-literary body of work (BOW)?
What’s a literary work?
What’s a non-literary body of work (BOW)?
Literary work: A longer literary piece (such as a novel, play or memoir) or a collection of shorter texts (such as poems or short stories) by the same author with an aesthetic purpose.
Non-literary Body of Work (BOW): A longer text or a collection of non-literary texts (including all forms of moving image) of the same text type with a unified sense of authorship.
*Grey area
*Grey area
Some ‘grey area’ texts are literary and fall under ‘Literary prose: non-fiction’. All texts by authors on the Prescribed reading list (PRL) are considered literary. Texts with a clear aesthetic purpose are literary. In any of these cases, the text cannot be considered non-literary and must be studied as part of a literary work.
What is a ‘passage’ from a work or BOW?
What is a ‘passage’ from a work or BOW?
Less than 40 lines from a written text, such as a poem or speech.
Approximately 3-5 stills*, accompanied with captions from those segments of a multimodal text, such a commercial, music video or feature film
1 cartoon or comic strip*
Approximately 1-2 pages from a graphic novel*
* Unofficial numbers, use professional judgment
Double-check your two excerpts.
Double-check your two excerpts.
Make sure both of your works are texts we've seen in class.
You can not use the work that you used for your higher-level essay.
Make sure one of your texts is one that was translated into English.
Do your excerpts have sufficient evidence to back up your global issue? Are there enough literary devices included?
Double-check your global issue:
Double-check your global issue:
Now that you have your two excerpts and thesis, does your global issue connect to both excerpts? Have you changed your mind in any way?
Create a PDF document after you've made your Excerpt form with BOTH excerpts and attach under Step 3: Excerpts in your Google Doc. Have your teacher check it.
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