Title: 07 - Essay Response
Course: English 4A SU15 > Section: Unit: That Couldn't Really Happen

Choose one of the following topics as a prompt for an essay. Remember, an essay doesn't have to be a 5 Paragraph Theme, but it should be a well organized and reasoned discussion that includes an introduction, body, and conclusion. Use the statement you choose as part of your Introduction. Be sure to tie the topics into what you've learned from the real-world information you read in this unit as well as the book (quote examples from both texts and make sure to cite the article(s) you include). Each time you transition into a new topic make certain that you are starting a new paragraph.

- How does the use of light and dark play into gothic literature?

- Should scientific exploration have moral limitations placed upon it?

- Why does absolute power corrupt absolutely as seen in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

- What does Frankenstein teach us about monsters?

- Who is the villain?

- Should Victor have finished his second creature?

- If those topics don't inspire you, feel free to write about one of these common themes of Romanticism as it relates to the book and the articles you've read in this unit:

Glory

Nature

Responsibility

Grading form:

Key Ideas & Details Rubric

This rubric is aligned to the MN Academic Standards for Language Arts in the area of Reading Literature: Key Ideas & Details.

Writing Conventions

- 0-2 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 3-4 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 5-6 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 7+ mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
Explicit/Implicit Support

- Cites 5 or more passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Cites at least 4 passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Cites at least 2 passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Does not cite passages from the book to support analysis.
Theme

- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text but contains some reasoning errors.
- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text but contains some reasoning errors that can make the conclusion difficult to understand.
- Contains some reasoning errors that make the conclusion difficult to understand or inaccurate.
Author Choice

- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization with support from text and additional opinion.
- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization with support from text or additional opinion.
- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization.
- Does not demonstrate the impact of the author's choices.