Comparing Two Songs

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1.2.c Five-Paragraph Essay You are going to write a five-paragraph essay comparing the motivations and desire for identity and belonging. Follow the pattern below. Use an example or quote from the text in each of your paragraphs. PARAGRAPH 1: • Get the reader’s attention. Tell what you are going to say in the essay. List the three examples you are going to analyze (“On the Sidewalk Bleeding,” “The Jet Song,” and the “Cliques and Identity” article). Remember you are analyzing the topic of belonging and identity. PARAGRAPH 2: • Present your analysis of identity and belonging in “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”. Include an example or quote from the text. Don’t just summarize the story. PARAGRAPH 3: • Present your analysis of identity and belonging in “The Jets Song.” Include an example or quote from the text. Don’t just retell the song. PARAGRAPH 4: • Present your analysis of identity and belonging in the “Cliques and Identity” article, including an example or quote from the text. Don’t just summarize the article – analyze it. PARAGRAPH 5: • Do your conclusion, mentioning your points of comparison and tying your four paragraphs together. Due: 2/12; Closed: 2/19; Points: 100 No matter where you go, no matter what you do there are always going to be someone that is going to judge you by your appearance, or put you in a place they think you belong. On the Sidewalk Bleeding, a song from A West Side Story “the jets song” and an article about cliques and identity will be a good way to show you. On the Sidewalk bleeding is about a teenage boy who’s on the sidewalk bleeding. He’s on his way to go buy cigarettes and he’s stabbed. Many people come to face him during this predicament but no one wants to help him because he’s wearing a certain jacket. A jacket that relates him to a gang called the “Royals”. For example, a young couple

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