Short story

Paper instructions:
The independent assignment which conceder to write a story “Fiction or Real” about a person who faced a problem while having an adventure in the forest, desert, sea, or any other natural place. The assignment should be:
“Show your story” make it as a booklet including images, pictures, or illustrations expressing the events of the story. Number of pages shouldn’t be less than 10 pages each page should include maximum 5 sentences in simple words with image or picture because the assignment for kid in grade 5. including pictures and illustrations.

Paper 5 Requirements

1. Paper 5 focuses on your interpretation of the theme (meaning, important point)  of one story.  Choose one of the following stories listed in the file called “Reading Some Stories” in this Unit.

2. Paper 5 uses at least two quotations from a secondary source found in the Literature Resource Center database.

3. The paper has a short introduction paragraph, which includes

a lead-in line to get the paper started [don’t start the first line of the paper with the thesis]; this is just a general statement of the topic of the paper,
the title of the story [in quotation marks],
the name of the author of the story,
the thesis [your opinion about what the story means or its major theme or idea].
4. The thesis makes one arguable point about the theme (point, meaning, your interpretation) of the story. Your thesis is arguable; that is, it takes a stand that other people who read the story might disagree with but one which you support. The thesis is your interpretation of a theme, point, or meaning of the story.

5. The body of your paper contains several paragraphs. In the body paragraphs, you will want to

thoroughly explain all your ideas,
make every sentence clear and understandable to the reader
not use any contractions,
not use the words you, your, yours,
use the literary present tense of verbs to talk about your story.  For example, the boy walks through the house, not “walked”; or the poem is about a young boy, not “was.”
6. Back up your ideas in your body paragraphs with quotations from the story.  Put quotation marks around the quotations.  After the quotation, put the page number in parenthesis.  Be sure to lead into the quotation before giving the quotation.  After the quotation tell what the quotation suggests to you or your interpretation of the quotation.  Link this discussion to the topic sentence of the paragraph and to the thesis of the paper.

7. Back up your ideas in your body paragraphs with at least two quotations from the secondary source.  Or, you may use quotations from the secondary source that run counter to your own interpretation of the story.  Put quotation marks around the quotations.  After the quotation, put the name of the author of the secondary source in parenthesis if you have not already mentioned him/her in your paragraph.  If you have already mentioned him/her in your paragraph, do not cite his/her name in parenthesis again. Remember, though that you will NOT use a page number for an electronic source).

In this paper you are NOT asked to summarize what you read in the secondary source.  You are NOT asked to use the same thesis that the secondary source uses.  You are NOT asked to agree with what the secondary source has to say about the story.  You are merely asked to use two quotations from the secondary source.

8. You may also back up your ideas in your body paragraphs with summaries and paraphrases from the secondary source.  Or, you may summarize and paraphrase ideas from the secondary source that run counter to your own interpretation of the story.  Do NOT put quotation marks around summaries and paraphrases.  After the summary and paraphrase, put the name of the author of the secondary source in parenthesis if you have not already mentioned him/her in your paragraph. If you have already mentioned him/her in your paragraph, do not cite his/her name again in parenthesis.

9. When you quote, quote accurately.  Use ellipsis to indicate any omissions you have made from the original quotation.  Use square brackets to enclose any change you make in the original, including ellipsis. Use the single quotation marks inside double quotation marks to indicate words already in quotation marks in the story.  If your quotation from the story is long (more than 4 lines of your paper), display the quotation as a long quotation.

10.  End the paper with a short conclusion paragraph that echoes or mirrors the thesis in some way and that wraps up the entire paper.

11. In word processing, type an outline page (with at least As and Bs under each Roman numeral), the paper itself, and a Work Cited page.

12. Write the words “Paper 5” somewhere on the title page of your paper.

13. Give your paper a title that is NOT the title of the story. Type the title, at the top and centered, on the first page of the paper itself.

14. Assigned length: 1000 words or more.

15. Underline the thesis in your introduction paragraph. It should be the last sentence of the introduction paragraph.