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Exploring Reflection and Anticipation in Tattoos: A Writing Workshop

In this workshop, students engage in a deep dive into themes presented in "Tattoos on the Heart," while honing their reflection writing skills. Participants will explore essential elements in a reflection paper, focusing on personal connection to the text. Students will identify major themes, share opinions on related topics like uniforms, college, and social media, and learn the distinction between reflections, summaries, and essays. Through discussions and structured writing activities, students will develop their ability to articulate personal insights and reactions meaningfully.

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Exploring Reflection and Anticipation in Tattoos: A Writing Workshop

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  1. English IV- Unit 1 Day 4 Reflection and Anticipation of Tattoos

  2. Do-Now Have your summary out and ready to hand in. Also have both of your do-nows from the week and ready to hand in. *Make sure your name is on both of these.

  3. Prayer: Blessed be you, God, for creating me. Amen.

  4. SWBAT: • Discuss themes of a text • Identify necessary elements in a reflection paper

  5. Anticipation • Continue discussion on themes in Tattoos on the Heart

  6. Preface/Introduction/Foreword • Preface: Explains how the book came to be written or why it was written (written by the author) • Introduction: Sets the book up (written by the author) • FYI (but doesn’t apply to this book): A foreword is always written by someone besides the author about the book • It’s a good marketing strategy • It adds credibility to the book

  7. Fact and Opinion Briefly write your opinions on the following: • Uniforms • College • Social Media (facebook, twitter, etc.) Write facts on the following (if you can): • Uniforms • Collegea • Social Media

  8. Reflections: A Few Things to Note What is a reflection? • A reflection essay is your reaction to the text. It uses examples from the text and your life to explain your reactions. • These are more formal than journal entries, but less formal than essays • Use formal language and standards of writing • These are one of the ONLY types of essays that you are allowed to use the word “I” in, and only if you are giving a personal example.

  9. BEFORE WRITING A REFLECTION: • Determine two or three main themes or issues from the book that you felt strongly about or that you believed were especially striking. • Hunger Games Example: • Dystopia (A place in which everything is unpleasant or bad, ruled by a totalitarian/dictatorship type government) • Obedience

  10. Paragraph 1: Paragraph 1 introduces the text and highlights the main topics you will be discussing later in the paper. Sentence 1: Just like in a summary, you will introduce author and title, BUT you can also add in your opinion • Summary: “In The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, characters must fight to the death for the pleasure of the upper class Capitol citizens.” • Reflection: “In The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, a horrific scene occurs every year in which characters must fight to the death for the pleasure of the upper class Capitol citizens.

  11. Paragraph 1 (cont’d) Sentences 2-6(ish) should highlight what you will be discussing the remainder of the paper. • Sentence 2: Dystopia. The dystopian society was shocking and unnatural, though perhaps a scary reflection of what any society could become. • Sentence 3: Obedience. What was even more shocking, however, was that people obeyed this rule and followed through with murdering one another to win the “Hunger Games.” • Sentence 4: Conclusion/Overall. While Collins writes on a gruesome subject, it is good to open our eyes and consider where the citizens in this dystopia made their mistakes.

  12. Paragraph 2: • Paragraph 2 will be all about the first topic you chose (in this case, dystopia). • Expand on your thoughts, beliefs about this topic. • Though dystopia is made very apparent and obvious in this book, sometimes dystopia is not so obvious. • Use examples from the book to show how this topic is portrayed in the book. • It is clearly portrayed in the book, as Collins writes of one of the places in the book, “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.” • If you can, connect it to something in our world today (or your life) • The dystopia is evident in the book, but what is less evident is the dystopia that happens in our world today.

  13. Paragraph 3: • Paragraph 3 will be the same as paragraph 2, only about your other topic. (In this case, obedience) • For now, you will not need a conclusion paragraph for your reflections.

  14. Homework: Read the introduction to Tattoos. Write three questions or comments you have about the book so far. • Make these thoughtful please. Questions should be able to have a more-than-three-word response.

  15. Exit: • Turn to your partner and tell them two things you learned about writing a reflection paper.

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