Organizing Your Body Paragraphs

Text Box: Respect for primitivism, other cultures

3. Organizing Your Body Paragraphs

Text Box: While you watch the movie, make a list of the various components of romanticism in The Last of the Mohicans In each text box, write plot details or quotes or background info which you might use as proof in your body paragraphs. Remember, your thesis is something like, “Romanticism is an integral part of Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans.”

Text Box: Romantic hero

Text Box: Interest in the past

Text Box: Individualism

Text Box: Rejection of perceived European Enlightenment values/civilization/culture: materialism, greed, selfishness, mechanization, authority more important than people, class system, corruption

Text Box: Inner landscape

Text Box: The grotesque, violent, strange, exotic

Text Box: Intuition or imagination more important than logic/reason/revelation

Text Box: Follow your passion/ search for beauty/truth

Text Box: Love/respect for nature / use of American landscape

Text Box: Nationalism/ patriotism / vision for what America could be

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Steps:

Easy!! One step at a time..

1. Getting Started	6. Incorporating quotes	10. Using MLA format	17. Peer editing
2. Background Information you need about Romanticism
3. Background info about Cooper and the Romantic Hero

4. Writing your thesis	7. Weaving in quotations	11. Writing your introduction paragraph	18 Typing your Works Cited
		12. Introduction paragraph model
5. Organizing your body paragraphs	8. Note taking for research (Pay attention to this one!)	13. Writing your body paragraphs	19. Evaluation
		14. Body paragraph model
		15. Body paragraph model part II
4.Choosing movie quotes	9.Quotes from other sources (	16. Writing your conclusion	20. You did it! :)

Literary Research Assignment

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