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Supervised Writing
Purpose
 Intended as a springboard to elicit your ideas
 From these ideas you develop a topic and the final
essay
 Ultimate Goal Behind Requiring the Supervised
Write: That you produce good essays (the Written
Assignment) with appropriate topics
Logistics
 50 minutes allowed
 Open book (annotations allowed, but no secondary
materials)
 Must be in continuous prose (not a web, an outline,
bullets, etc.)
 No specified length
 Is handed in to teacher
 An unedited copy is kept on file
Prompts
 Several prompts
 Goal is to:
 encourage independent critical writing and
 stimulate thinking about an assignment topic
In December….
 You will choose one of your three pieces of
supervised writing
 You will develop it into an essay (the Written
Assignment)
 There must be an apparent connection between the
supervised writing and the final essay, but you are
encouraged to provide your own title and to develop
the chosen prompt in an independent direction.
Examples
 Prompt Which minor character plays the most
significant role?
 Work A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
 Essay title Mrs Linde as role model in A Doll’s House
 Prompt Do you think there are some characters in the
work whose chief role is to convey cultural values?
 Work Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García
Márquez
 Essay title The Vicario brothers as champions of
honour
 Prompt Identify a symbol, motif or strand of imagery
(or more than one if you prefer). What role does it
play in the work?
 Work Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
 Essay title The contrasting roles of ice and snow in Dr
Zhivago