archetype essay prompts

The phrase “knock yourself out” definitely applies to the SAT essay. Those plucky, indefatigable types will write essay after essay. And there’s no shortage—the College Board releases four essay prompts after each test. Over the course of years, you have well over a hundred prompts to choose from. The point of this post is not for you to find all those prompts and then go into aggro essay writing mode. Rather, by writing a number of essays you will notice recurrent themes: Heroes, Success, Individuality vs. Conformity, Technology/Progress, Tradition, and Heroes. Knowing the range of prompts can prepare you for test day. Even better, if you know more or less what the prompt is going to be about you can prepare your examples beforehand. That’s right! Instead of scrambling to come up with cogent, well thought out examples, spend those precious 25 minutes actually writing. Wait a second how can one example apply to all these different things? Don’t worry, I ‘m not asking you to put together one cookie cutter example in the quixotic hope that it’ll happen to apply to the prompt. Instead, you should have trusted sources from which to draw your example from. For instance, one of my students used Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird for any essay prompt I threw at her. She would of course only use one TKMB example per essay; it was unfailingly apt. Most of the time these examples were pretty similar and all related to Scout and Atticus. Of course the College Board won’t know this while they are grading your essay. A range of sources It is a good idea to make sure all of your sources aren’t for literature. I encourage students to come up with a current event or two, and a historical event or two. The key is that you know your sources well. (To illustrate I’ve appended a list below). So sit back and think of a novel you read recently (and liked), or some current event that.
Hi and welcome to my SAT prep blog! Be sure to join my email list so I can send you exclusive subscriber-only tips to help you! Today we’re going in-depth into tips and insights about the SAT essay. Specifically, we’ll dig into some valuable thoughts and info about the SAT Essay prompts themselves – the essay questions and topics that you’ll deal with on the day of the test. There’s a lot of (mostly-wrong) advice about the SAT Essay out there, but here’s why you should want to read this “SAT Essay Prompts” post instead of someone else’s – Simply put, I know exactly what I’m talking about and have the numbers to prove it: If you’re looking for definitive, concrete information about the essay prompts from a true SAT expert, then read on First things first – expose yourself to a list of SAT essay prompts: This is how I start all SAT essay lessons with my private tutoring students – by having them read through a long list of actual SAT essay prompts from earlier tests. Following this step at the beginning makes it easier to talk about the nature of the prompts later on, but we both need to have looked at a bunch of different SAT essay questions to make sure that you and I are on the same page. Here’s a link to a list of of SAT essay prompts. Read through the list for a few minutes. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Then come back and we’ll talk. (Make sure you come back here afterwards for all my pro insights!) Are you back? Great, then let’s take a closer look at what you just read. SAT Essay Prompt Themes and Archetypes What’s an archetype? I’m using the term somewhat loosely, I admit: In this case I mean one “umbrella” prompt category that could contain multiple different specific prompts. For example, you may look at 3 different types of animal: A German Shepherd, a Great Dane, and a wild wolf – and despite their obvious differences on the surface, we can still determine they are.
|Arthurian Legend| |Beowulf| |Classical Mythology| |Creation Stories| |Fairy Tales and Folktales| |Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey| |Mythology Main Page| The all-purpose guide to epic moviesThis chart shows different archetypal roles at work in Harry Potter, Star Wars, and other movies: the hero, the threshold guardian, the trickster, etc. An Anti-Hero of One's OwnThis TED-ED video (4:11) explores the pattern of the anti-hero using references to Fahrenheit 451 and 1984, among others. Captioned, includes follow-up questions and other support. ArchetypesThis Google Doc lists and describes types of heroes, quests, stages, characteristics, and symbols. Students are invited to find examples. Includes graphic organizer. Chart of GodsThis printable handout details the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, their spheres of influence, symbols, cities, and animals. Adobe Reader required for access. Comparison of World MythsThis page outlines similarities and differences in world myths. Deities & SuperheroesStudents will compare the Assyrian Bird-Headed Deity limestone relief (found on site) to comic book superheroes and talk about common themes and important differences. Attention to the three-dimensional detail in the relief, as compared to the two-dimensional images of cartoon art, helps them learn about different visual elements artists use to convey certain feelings and concepts. They will then create a superhero of their own. Designed for K-5, includes link to Superhero Database. Game of Heroes: Exploring Myth through Interactive (Non)FictionStudents will compare and contrast the biographical account of a real life hero with the mythical quest of a demigod; Theseus and Hercules can be studied side by side with Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Students will ultimately fuse their understandings of the metaphorical journey to view their own selves as heroes through their.
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Background We’re going through a unit on writing for gifted students. This series is based around the generalization “Structure increases creativity” and includes depth and complexity as well as content imperatives. The type of structure we’re incorporating into today’s lesson is character archetypes. An archetype, according to Wikipedia, is “an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated.” Character archetypes, like plot structure and themes, are a sophisticated tool that I use to push my students beyond setting, plot, and the main characters. This tool will benefit both their writing and literary analysis skills. Objective Students will identify character types based on the pattern of archetypes using a variety of stories from films, novels, and video games. Instruction To promote creativity and constructive learning, I’m going to utilize an inductive thinking model (as developed by Hilda Taba). Introduce Uncategorized Examples First, present an assortment of characters that fit the archetypes you are introducing. Here’s a sample collection I used (obviously you’ll need to pick characters your students will be familiar with): Encourage Categorization Note: I’ve carefully selected these characters to eventually teach about four archetypes (hero, mentor, rogue/pirate, and jester). In a true inductive lesson, your students would brainstorm their own characters. Regardless, I’m going to give my students freedom to categorize them as they see fit. Let this part proceed naturally. If no one ever comes close to the categorization you’re aiming for, you can always pop in after a while and suggest a category – not as a right answer, but as a way that you see the characters fitting. Now, ask students to silently look for patterns in these characters. They should look for parallels based on character traits.