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January 29 — folder and parent signature due
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January 30 — note cards due
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January 31 — select a topic
View a list of potential paper topics: Choose a topic for your paper and type it here: (5 points)

//Catcher// is largely autobiographical.

February 4 — thesis due
Your thesis tells your readers what point you will be making and defending about the novel. For a guide to writing your thesis (and some examples) click here. __Write your thesis here__: (5 points)

In the novel //The Catcher in the Rye//, by J.D. Salinger, the main character, Holden Caufield, is a strong resemblance of J.D Salinger. The author and his created character, Holden, have quite a few things in common including the relationship with their parents, the fact that they were both loners, and both were rebellious teenagers.

Your three main body topics are the main topics you will use to defend your thesis. You should use at least three different subtopics (main bodies) to defend your thesis in the paper. Many students use 4, 5, or even more main body topics to organize their papers. THREE IS JUST A MINIMUM.

__Please enter (at least) three main body topics here__: (5 points)

1) They both grew up in wealthy familes 2) They were both loners 3) They were both rebellious teenagers

February 6 — introductory paragraph due
Your intro paragraph tells your readers the thesis of your paper, and briefly outlines the main body paragraph topics you will use to prove and defend your thesis. __Type **(or link to)** your Introductory Paragraph here__: (10 points) Intro

February 7 — critical articles (secondary sources) due
You need at least three secondary sources (essays or articles about the novel written by professional critics) from which you will quote the words of the author/critic to help defend your thesis. __List the titles and authors of your three secondary sources here__: (5 points)

1) Sarris 1 2) Sarris 2 3) Sarris 3 4) Sarris 4


 * NOTE**: It is a good idea to find more than three articles in case you change your mind about using one of them. Remember, your final paper must have a total of 8-15 quotes from these secondary sources to help you make your point and defend your thesis. These eight quotes must come from at least three different secondary sources.

February 8 — secondary source quotes
Using each of your three articles at least once, select at least 8 details or quotes from your articles to defend thesis. YOU MUST LIST THE QUOTE, THE SOURCE OF THE QUOTE, AND THE MAIN BODY TOPIC OF YOUR PAPER WHERE YOU WILL USE THE QUOTE. __List at least eight quotes from secondary sources here__: (5 points)

1) QUOTE: "he said that his own childhood was much like that of the boy Holden Caufield in his novel, Raised in Manhattan, Salinger was the second of two children of a prosperous Jewish importer and a Scots- Irish mother." TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger (1919- ) pg.1 AUTHOR: None SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family

2) QUOTE: "Like Holen, Salinger was restless in fashionable prep schoos, and Salinger was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy, a model for Pencey Prep in Salinger's novel." TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger pg. 1 AUTHOR: Warren French SUBTOPIC: attended and got kicked out of schools/rebel

3) QUOTE: "The Catcher in the Rye provides the artist a framework upon which he may hang almost any fabric of events and characters." TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff pg. 1 AUTHOR: Arthur Heiserman SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family

4) QUOTE: "Holden dreamed of living in the city and going west where he could live in a little cabin and this description foreshadows exactly the kind of place Salinger has lived for twenty years, but the only difference is that he lives in New England." TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger pg. 3 AUTHOR: Warren French SUBTOPIC: loner

5) QUOTE: "Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger has consistently avoided contact with the public, obstruting attempts by those wishing to pry in his personal life." TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3 AUTHOR: None SUBTOPIC: loner

6) QUOTE: "Salinger said that his own childhood was much like that of the boy Holden Caulfield." TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger pg. 1 AUTHOR: Warren French SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family

7) QUOTE: "Salinger left Ursinus College just after only one semester." TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3 AUTHOR: None SUBTOPIC: Attending different schools/rebel

8) QUOTE: "The attitude of Salinger has been found in much of his writing as there is a pattern throughout his work of impatience with the tedium of formal learning and academic types." TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3 AUTHOR: None SUBTOPIC: Attending different schools/rebel

(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)

February 11 — primary source quotes
Please select at least 10 details from the novel to defend thesis Feb 11 __List them here__: (5 points)

1) QUOTE: "Somewhere out West where it was very pretty and sunny and where nobody'd know me and I'd get a job." (Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 198 SUBTOPIC: Loner

2) QUOTE: "That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody." (Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 198 SUBTOPIC: Loner

3) QUOTE: "This is about the fourth school I've gone to." (Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 9 SUBTOPIC: rebel

4) QUOTE: Want your parents to know you spent the night with a whore? High-class kid like you? (Maurice to Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 102 SUBTOPIC: wealthy family

5) QUOTE: The nuns kept asking me if I was sure I could afford it. i told them I had quite a bit of money with me, but they didn't seem to believe me." (Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 110 SUBTOPIC: wealthy family

6) QUOTE: "what we could do is, tomorrow we could drive up to Massachusetts and Vermont, and all around there, see." (Holden to Sally) PAGE NUMBER: 132 SUBTOPIC: loner

7) QUOTE:I have about a hundred and eighty bucks in the bank." (Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 132 SUBTOPIC: wealthy family

8) QUOTE: "We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out." (Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 132 SUBTOPIC: loner

9) QUOTE: "The worst he will do, he"ll give me hell again, and then he'll send me to that goddam military school." (Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 166 SUBTOPIC: rebel

10) QUOTE: " I"ll be away. I'll probably be in Colorado on this ranch." (Holden) PAGE NUMBER: 166 SUBTOPIC: loner

(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)

February 12 — outline your main body
Please arrange your 10 primary source quotes and your 8 secondary source quotes into an outline of the body of your critical paper. In other words, list the quotes in the order you will use them under each main body topic.

If you use a word document to do this, this could become the framework for your actual paper (because you could type your own writing in between the quotes after you've arranged them in order in this outline, thus creating a draft of your actual paper).

__Please post **(or link to)** a word document containing the outline of your main body (everything but your intro and conclusion) here:__ (5 points)

Sarris Outline

February 13 — first draft of main body
Write a draft of the body of your paper for peer review.

Please create a link to this first draft, calling it (YOURNAME)'S FIRST DRAFT, as a __new__ wiki page. Ask __at least three__ of your classmates to __read__ your draft (you might need to tell them where to find it by emailing them a link). Students will be expected to read each other's drafts __and leave comments__ in the discussion board. (10 points)

Julie Sarris Rough Draft

February 14 — peer review
__List the names of at least three of your classmates whose first drafts you read and commented upon:__ (5 points)

1) 2) 3)

At this point, begin revising your draft and come up with a second rough draft.

February 19 — final rough draft
Submit a paper copy of your final draft of the body to the teacher. (20 points)

February 21 — rough draft of conclusion paragraph
__Please type **(or link to)** the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here__: (5 points)

February 22 — final draft of conclusion paragraph
Revise your conclusion paragraph and present a copy to your teacher today. __Also, please type **(or link to)** the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here__: (10 points)

February 25 — Works Cited Page due
Turn in a paper copy of your works cited page to your teacher today! __Link to the Word document of your works cited page here__: (20 points)

February 27 — CRITICAL PAPER DUE!!!
Turn in the final draft of critical paper TODAY, including: a) note cards b) outline of body c) all rough drafts d) completed checklist, signed e) final draft of paper, typed, double spaced (5-7 pgs.) f) final works cited / references page

(100 points)

March 5 — TURN IT IN (dot com)
Today is the final day for MANDATORY submission of your final critical paper to [|www.turnitin.com]


 * __FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM WILL RESULT IN A ZERO ON YOUR PAPER!__**

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