Paper #4 ---RISK

For this last essay assignment, you are being invited to think again about the ideas/prompts that we explored this semester through the lens of "RISK."  As we said in class, what makes this essay different is that unlike the earlier papers where you were guided as to how to organize the paper, for this #4 essay you will be deciding for yourself how to organize it. What that really means is that you should come up with 4-5 "sections"  of the paper. A section should be substantial enough that you can then do Rule of 3 for each section. In that way you will generate 10-15 paragraphs. ( Of course, ALL the body paragraphs need to have 1-2 quotes--preferably 2!).

There are a number of different ways to come up with sections of an essay. One way is to generate questions, another is to do a Brainstorm that you then ReREAD in order to see what sections might be lurking there. You will be asked to integrate the main prompts we used this semester into this paper. BUT you should not organize the paper by each prompt. (In other words, you don't want to say "my first section of my paper is Bread Givers, my second section is Passion Project movie---don't organize the paper by prompts, instead organize by some concepts that you come up with.)

Your Homework that will be due next Monday (or Wednesday for the Wednesday night 1A):

1. Try to finish Into the Wild.
2. Create a detailed outline of your paper. It should have 4 or so sections, and each section should have 3 or so concepts.
3. Once you have created your outline, please write up 4-6 of your paragraphs, so that we can begin to see how your  paper is going.

The main prompts we used this semester: Bread Givers, Passion Movie , Why School, Into the Wild.

For this paper you should be sure to reference all 4 of these, with about half your references being from Into The Wild. You can also bring in other sources, either new ones that you find, or older ones we have used, for example, Andrade.

Good luck---remember, this paper is a chance for your to really go deep and personal about Risk, and to combine your personal feelings with academic analysis. Have  some fun with it!