Whatch the movie Back to the Future and read the 3 articles then conduct this movie essay review. on Back to the Future 1985.
Your essay will be scored as follows.
1 points: Did the student display good grammar, spelling, sentence & paragraph structure — writing conventions. 0 (very little), 1 (lots of mistakes, but could be read without wincing too much), 2 (yes).
2 points: Did the student’s essay conform to a critical analysis structure as follows
Introduction
title & date of the movie
outline of the main ideas of the movie
state your own thesis statement and your main idea about the movie.
What you are doing is making a case for an idea that you have in your brain. That idea is called the thesis statement. Just use plain language, like you would in talking to a friend.
Summary
briefly summarize the plot of the movie
who, what, where, when, why and how
structure, style or point of view of the movie
Critical Analysis You are making an argument about your idea on a movie, using information from the movie, the readings, and infused with the perspective of the overview presentation about a critical analysis of a movie. You will have at least 3 main points to support your thesis/idea, but you could have as many as 7 if you write concisely.
Conclusion
Restate your thesis/main idea in new words
Summarize your main ideas with new and stronger words than you did before
Length
No more than 4 double spaced pages (2 single spaced) with 12 point font.
3 points: What is the clear evidence that the student employed information in the overview presentations on critically analyzing cultural, political and social practices in movies and related texts (the readings) across temporal or spatial dimensions. The scale is 0 (no evidence that the student even skimmed the overview presentations), 1 (reading between the lines, the student grasped a little bit), 2 (overview perspective present in half the essay), 3 (influenced the entire essay)
4 points: What is the evidence that the student employed information from the readings? The scale is 0 (no evidence), 0.5 (reading between the lines, the student grasped a little bit), 1 (impacted the essay, but not much), 2 ( influenced most of the essay), 3 (influenced the entire essay). WARNING: YOU CANNOT “embed” or hint at reading content. You must EXPLICITLY state the source and ideally use a relevant quote from the reading to emphasize your point.
4 points: What is the evidence that the student employed information from the faculty lecture? The scale is 0 (no evidence), 1 (reading between the lines, the student grasped a little bit), 2 (present in half the essay), 3 (influenced the entire essay), WARNING: YOU CANNOT simply infer content from the faculty lecture was used in your essay. In other words, when we do not add 4 points because you did not bring in a substantive amount from the faculty lecture to enrich your essay — then simply inferring that you got information from the lecture will fall on deaf ears. You must be explicit as to what the faculty said and how it relates to your essay.
SOME BASIC HINTS ON WRITING:
Support your thesis with detailed evidence from the readings and faculty lecture. Do not forget to document quotes and paraphrases and attribute them to their source.
Remember that the purpose of a critical analysis is not merely to inform, but also to evaluate the worth, utility, excellence, distinction, truth, validity, beauty, or goodness of something.
Even though as a writer you set the standards, you should be open-minded, well informed, and fair. You can express your opinions, but you should also back them up with evidence.
Your critical analysis should provide information, interpretation, and evaluation. The information will help your reader understand the nature of the movie under analysis. The interpretation will explain the meaning of the movie, therefore requiring your correct understanding of it. The evaluation will discuss your opinions of the movie and present valid justification for them with assistance from the faculty presentation and readings.