Catcher in the Rye Essay

ALC: Hettinger

Catcher in the Rye Argument with Sources Essay Checklist

MLA Heading: LEFT hand side of paper

_____ Name
_____ ALC: 2 or 3
_____ Hettinger

_____ Due date

MLA Format:

_____ Times New Roman font

_____ double spaced

_____ Insert → page number → (use one with number on the top RIGHT hand side) Write last name only on the left of page number.

Introduction

_____Hook: Strong allusion to Holden with either an explicit quote or an implicit one.
_____Author, title, type: This is easy and you’ve been doing it all year.
_____Explanation of how Holden relates to issues with teen depression today.

_____Thesis that relates past and present and makes an argument.

Body Paragraph

_____Claim: that encompasses past and present.

_____ Evidence:

_____CONTEXTUALIZE: When
and
Where

does this quote appear (When Holden is falling apart as he is waiting for Phoebe in the end of the novel…)

_____ SET UP: He says,

_____ QUOTE & CITE correctly “………….” ……….. (Salinger 110). (Notice that the citation goes at the end of the sentence — not necessarily at the end of the quote. Also notice that the period goes after the parenthesis

_____Explain quote and write a
TRANSITION WORD OF PHRASE
connecting your first piece of evidence to your second.

_____ Evidence:

_____CONTEXTUALIZE: In 2020…

_____ SET UP: According to Source D,

_____ QUOTE & CITE correctly “………….” ……….. (Source D). (Notice that the citation goes at the end of the sentence — not necessarily at the end of the quote. Also notice that the period goes after the parenthesis

_____Warrant/Reasoning why it’s important to the claim (& thesis)

Conclusion

_____ Relate back to your Holden hook

_____ Explain why this is an important topic worth discussing in the 21st century world.

Punctuation Etc:

_____Are you capitalizing proper nouns and the title of the story?

_____Are you italicizing
Catcher in the Rye?

_____Does every sentence make sense?

_____ Have you considered what you know about commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parenthesis…?

_____Did you proofread to make sure your words make sense?
Sentences we’ve studied that folks had trouble punctuating:
ICDC.
DC,IC.
IC,ccIC.
IC;ca,IC.

When you don’t punctuate properly, you have
Run ons
Fragments

Apostophes

Extra Credit
_____ Can you use two vocabulary words: