Prompt: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), an inventor and diplomat, explores the themes of generosity, practicality, and self-discipline in “The Autobiography.” Analyze the three themes in this work. Title
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English 10 ____ Date: ______________________________________________ Planning Sheet for Essay 3 “The Autobiography” Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 PROMPT: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), an inventor and diplomat, explores the themes of generosity, practicality, and self-discipline in “The Autobiography.” Analyze the three themes in this work. Title: Come up with a clever (but not silly) title for your essay. Remember: You need to include the author’s name and the literary work in your title, but that should not be all there is to your title. Write your title here:
Remember: No punctuation for your title except for the quotation marks around “The Autobiography.” No bold or large font either. Thanks! Paragraph 1: Introduction: The introduction basically serves as a “table of contents” to your essay. It should be five sentences: the thesis statement, a sentence about the topic of your first body paragraph, a sentence about the topic of your second body paragraph, a sentence about the topic of your third body paragraph, and a concluding/transition sentence to the body of your essay. THESIS STATEMENT: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), an inventor and diplomat, explores the themes of generosity, practicality, and self-discipline in “The Autobiography.” SENTENCE ABOUT THE TOPIC OF FIRST BODY PARAGRAPH: GENEROSITY: __________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ SENTENCE ABOUT THE TOPIC OF THE SECOND BODY PARAGRAPH: PRACTICALITY: ___________ ______________________________________________________________________________ SENTENCE ABOUT THE TOPIC OF THE THIRD BODY PARAGRAPH: SELF-DISCIPLINE: ___________ ______________________________________________________________________________ CONCLUDING/TRANSITION SENTENCE:_______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: Body Paragraph 1: The pattern for each of the body paragraphs will be exactly the same. That keeps everything organized and consistent. TOPIC SENTENCE: Benjamin Franklin explores the theme of generosity in “The Autobiography.” SETUP FOR TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: According to the dictionary, generosity means “free in giving or sharing,” and Franklin explores this through _________________________________________. TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: “____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________” (Franklin ). ANALYSIS OF THE THEME:________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ TRANSITION SENTENCE TO NEXT PARAGRAPH:_______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
TOPIC SENTENCE: Benjamin Franklin explores the theme of practicality in “The Autobiography.” SETUP FOR TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: According to the dictionary, practicality means , “level- headedness, sensibleness, and having common sense,” and Franklin explores this through _____________________________________________________________________________. TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: “____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________” (Franklin ). ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF THE THEME:___________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ TRANSITION SENTENCE TO NEXT PARAGRAPH:_______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 4: Body Paragraph 3 TOPIC SENTENCE: Benjamin Franklin explores the theme of self-discipline in “The Auto- biography.” SETUP FOR TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: According to the dictionary, self-discipline means having “self- control, discipline, and willpower,” and Franklin explores this through ____________________________________________________________________________. TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: “____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________” (Franklin ). ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF THE THEME:___________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 5: Conclusion: This paragraph needs to be a full paragraph—not just a sentence—and leave the reader with something to think about. Avoid starting your conclusion with the phrase “In conclusion.” Also, even though you are summarizing the essay and should not be presenting new information, your conclusion should seem fresh and use new phrasing and diction (word choice). Note: There is NO textual evidence in a conclusion. OVERALL SUMMARY: ____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ COMMENT ON THE FIRST THEME:__________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ COMMENT ON THE SECOND THEME:________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ COMMENT ON THE THIRD THEME:__________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ POWERFUL ENDING:______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Work Cited Franklin, Benjamin. “The Autobiography.” Elements of Literature: Fifth Course. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2005. 68-71. Things to Remember:
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