Sunday, March 9, 2014

10. The TIME Paragraph


The Time Paragraph
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, the greatest literary genius of the English language, was born in Stratford-on Avon in 1564. Although Shakespeare is principally remembered today as the premier English dramatist, he ear1y attained widespread popularity in the 1590's as a lyric and narrative poet with the publication of Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594). He first attained success as a playwright after the production of Henry IV, Part l, in 1592. Over the next two decades he wrote a succession of widely acclaimed plays which may be categorized roughly into three groups, histories, comedies, and tragedies or tragi-comedies. Among the history plays, Richard III in 1592-93, Richard II in 1594-95, and Henry V in 1599 were especial1y well received and have continued to be produced even until the present day. Of the comedies, a Midsummer Night's Dream 1595, The Merchant of Venice 1595-96, and Much Ado About Nothing 1598, were and are enduring favorites with actors and audiences alike. But undoubtedly Shakespeare's world-wide reputation as a dramatist rest on the great tragedies Romeo and Juliet 1594-95, Othello 1602, Hamlet 1602, King Lear 1606, and Anthony and Cleopatra 1607. After having dominated the London theatrical scene for some twenty years, Shakespeare retired to Stratford, where he 1ived in relatively ease and comfort until his death in 1616.

Analyze the paragraph above, develop a time-line the outline it.

Time Line:












Outline:
















Grape Cultivation
The history of the grape is as old as man and older. In fact, fossilized grape leaves, stems and seeds have been taken from Tertiary deposits of perhaps 30,000,000 years ago. But in man's recorded history, we have details of grape and wine production depicted in mosaics of 2,400 BC during the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt. In Homer's time, about 1000 BC, wine was a common feature of Greek life. By 600 BC., grapes were known in France, and no later than AD 200 they were introduced into Germany.  Columbus, and later the colonists, brought European grapes to America where they found native varieties already growing in a wild state.

Outline:






Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist and poet, was one of the most important figures of the Victorian Period.  Being born in Dublin in 1854, Wilde could never imagine that his name, through the pass of time, would be immortalized in universal literature.  It was not until 1882 that the name Oscar Wilde began to be recognized.  Among his large number of works, the ones that deserve special attention are his comic plays, such as Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), The Ideal Husband (1894), and The importance of Being Ernest (1895); besides of his tale Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime, and his great novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).  Nevertheless, although Oscar was the creator of such magnific and countless pieces of art, his startling manner of life brought him a lot of troubles.  In 1895, he was sentenced toprison for charges of immorality.  After his release (two years later), Wilde lived in France a short period of time, and then moved to Paris, where he died in 1900.  A hundred and four years after his death, people continue appreciating Oscar Wilde as a “master piece” of the literary world.

Does this paragraph include a modulator?

Outline:







HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT – TIME paragraph
Write an outline FOR A TIME PARAGRAPH.   AFTER WRITING YOUR OUTLINE, START DEVELOPING YOUR PARAGRAPH.
TO INTRODUCE YOUR TERMINATOR USE: AS YOU CAN SEE, CLEARLY, ETC. 
REMEMBER TO INCLUDE EXPLANATIONS OF DETAILS (WHY AND HOW).
USE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

Outline the TIME paragraph (USE ONE IDEA)

Topic sentence:

A1

A2

A3

A4

A5

A6


Conclusion:



WHO IS OSCAR WILDE AND WHAT ARE SOME OF HIS MOST FAMOUS LITERARY WORKS?
WRITE A PARAGRAPH DESCRIBING WILDE'S TIME LINE.



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