Need 100 points!
now it is time to submit your draft and planning documents. did you plan your paper completely? did you follow
your planning documents when writing your draft? you will get a chance to revise your paper before handing in a
final draft, but use appropriate transitions and maintain a consistent point of view in this first draft.
submit the following:
graphic organizer: evidence for a poem's theme
graphic organizer: informal essay for an outline about theme
first draft
1. write an introduction with a clear thesis about the theme of the poem.
2. analyze the theme of the poem using paraphrases, examples and quotations as evidence.
3. write a conclusion that summarizes the theme.
4. use appropriate transitions.
5. maintain a third person point of view

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant