Remember the heading First and Last name Last Name 1 Miss Hernandez American Literature # 7 Jan 2016 Self Reliance Standard RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text
Standard RL2: Provide an objective summary of the text. Write a summary for each paragraph of Self Reliance. The essay is roughly 1000 words long. Your summary to be between 150 and 300 words long. Your summary should... Identify the title of the work and author Include the major ideas addressed in each paragraph Paraphrase into your own words. DO NOT QUOTE the text in a summary. Do not include your opinion. You are just making a large bit of information smaller. Tips Your summary needs to be clear to someone who has not read the original text. Include all of the ESSENTIAL information Do not go beyond the main points Try to avoid overly specific details Concise and brief but inclusive
Example: Original-197 Summary -114 (more like a paraphrase) Summary 75 Summary--68 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. [...]We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. In paragraph one of Emerson s essay "Self Reliance he addresses the idea of accepting yourself for better or worse. He states that it is the responsibility of the individual to cultivate his/her own goodness. Furthermore, he goes on to say that one does not know what s/he can do until s/he tries. Emerson suggests that people aren t true to ourselves, but that God, or the Oversoul, won t allow great things to be done by people who are scared to be themselves. According to Emerson, people are happiest when they are able to give their all in their work, and doing less than his/her best will make him restless and hopeless. In paragraph one of Emerson s essay Self Reliance, he addresses the idea of accepting yourself for better or worse. and that you need to cultivate your own goodness Emerson suggests that people aren t true to ourselves, but that God, or the Oversoul, won t allow great things to be done by people who are scared to be themselves. According to Emerson, people are happiest when they do their best. Doing less than that restless and hopeless. In paragraph one of Emerson s essay Self Reliance, he addresses the idea of accepting yourself for better or worse, cultivating your own goodness, and being true to yourself. Emerson suggests that God, or the Oversoul, won t allow great things to be done by people who are scared to be themselves. According to Emerson, people are happiest when they do their best. Doing less than that restless and hopeless.
What your paper should look like so far First and Last name Last Name 1 Miss Hernandez American Grade Literature # 12 Jan 2016 Self Reliance by Emerson Standard RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text Summary of Self Reliance by paragraph (This is where you write your summary. If you re copying this right now because you were talking and don t know what to do, It s going to be pretty obvious when I read this part. This is for a grade. I m going to read these. Please don t earn yourself a zero because you are just copying without reading. That isn t smart.remember that you re supposed to be summarizing the main idea of each paragraph.)
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Remember the heading First and Last name Last Name 1 Miss Hernandez American Literature # 13 Jan 2016 Self Reliance Standard RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of whatthe text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Things to make sure you discuss in your summary Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 divine providence the society of your contemporaries, genius of their age, absolutely trustworthy nonconformist. not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Remember the heading First and Last name Last Name 1 Miss Hernandez American Literature # 14 Jan 2016 Self Reliance Standard Ri2: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text. (You should leave space between these to write. You are turning them in at the end of class remember) 1. What is the central idea of paragraph 4? Please support this response with concise summary of the text. 2. What is the central idea of paragraph 5? Please support this response with concise summary of the text. 3. What is the central idea of paragraph 6?Please support this response with concise summary of the text.
Paragraph 4: Continue Summary and Identify Main Idea (1)What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. (2) It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. (3) It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Things to think about while you re writing your summary Does this paragraph affirm or violate Transcendental ideas? When thinking about this make sure you have a specific one in mind.
Paragraph 5:Continue Summary and Identify Main Idea (5) For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. (6) The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. (7) If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs.[...] Things to think about while you re writing your summary Does this paragraph affirm or violate Transcendental ideas? When thinking about this make sure you have a specific one in mind
Paragraph 6: Continue Summary and Identify Main Idea (1) The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. Things to think about while you re writing your summary Does this paragraph affirm or violate Transcendental ideas? When thinking about this make sure you have a specific one in mind
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Things to make sure you discuss in your summary Paragraph 5 Paragraph 6 Paragraph 7 For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs.[...] The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.