The Bildungsroman

Here’s your access point for your essay.

First, open another tab, and sign into your GoogleDocs.

Before you continue, you might want to review this video on the bildungsroman, but ONLY if you have headphones!

Then, review your notes on the topic, or read this page.

Once you are done, please access this link:

Bildungsroman Organizer

Click on file > make a copy.  Save it to your GoogleDocs.  Then CLOSE MY DOC.

Then, go back to your copy of the ogranizer, click on file > make a copy.  Do this twice.  That makes THREE copies saved in your GoogleDocs.

Name them: Mean YOURNAME , Bronx YOURNAME, and Forrester YOURNAME.

Submit the LINKS to these docs, with the shareable link SET TO ‘can comment’ in this form.  DO NOT SHARE THE DOCUMENTS.  If you do, they will not be read and you will receive a zero.

Here is the rubric for your Bildungsroman essay.  It is worth 100 points.

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This organizer can be found online here, on page 3.

 

Now, if your organizers are finished (if they’re not – GO FINISH THEM NOW – they will be graded as late, but you NEED THEM FOR YOUR ESSAY- organizers are worth 50 points each.), your first order of business is to write a thesis statement.  This video may help:

Thesis Statement for an Argument Essay

 

Your thesis statement should contain these three things:

Attention-grabbing beginning          Description of issue      Opinion Statement 

I know – this type of argument is not arguing a position on an issue.  It’s arguing a point that you are going to insist is true about the texts you have studied.

For instance, if I used these texts to argue that, let’s say, the women in the texts are treated as insignificant or as props for men, I might say:

Sometimes writers, while trying to highlight the attributes of one character, give completely unfair and negative treatment to another, which makes the overall story less interesting.  The characters in these three bildungsromans, or coming of age stories (A Bronx Tale, Finding Forrester and Down These Mean Streets), that receive less attention are the women.  They are not the main characters, and their supporting roles are used to highlight the changes in the male protagonists , but this takes away from the richness of the stories.

Your thesis statement must be constructed in this way.  (No colors necessary.)

YOUR PROMPT:

The Bildungsroman is a story of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story.  It focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important,  In the three texts we have studied, discuss the role of character change and growth in its many forms – spiritual, moral, emotional, physical and mental.

This essay, which must be a minimum of 1250 words, is due Friday, 6/2/17 at 11:59PM.

This must be written in a GoogleDoc, set to “can comment,” and the link shared in the form provided.

NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Now you’re ready to begin your essay.

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