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Warm Up 10/14. Get a Chrome Book! (When you do, go to the blog!) Pull up your rough draft. Don’t write any responses, but instead, just consider these questions: did you finish your three body paragraphs? If not, what do you need to do today?. Learning Targets.
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Warm Up 10/14 • Get a Chrome Book! (When you do, go to the blog!) • Pull up your rough draft. • Don’t write any responses, but instead, just consider these questions: did you finish your three body paragraphs? If not, what do you need to do today?
Learning Targets • To use the assignment sheet for the essay on The Things They Carried as a guide for our work. • To finish our first drafts of the TTTC Style Analysis Essay.
Steps to Completing Your Work Today: • Complete drill. • Look over the suggested introductory paragraph format (slide 4). Figure out how you can • Apply the funnel method, while still incorporating both a synopsis of the book AND your thesis statement. • Refine your thesis statement • Look over the suggested concluding paragraph format. Figure out how to • Rephrase the thesis. • Apply the backwards-funnel method.
Introductory Paragraph – the Funnel Method • Your intro should be at least three sentences long: • Begins with a broad, general statement about the topic (put your synopsis here). • Follows with narrower, more specific statements about the topic (connect your synopsis to your thesis statement) • Final sentence is thesis statement.
Thesis Statement Refinement ***This is the single most important sentence in your essay.*** • To get to your final thesis, you'll need to refine your draft thesis so that it's specific and arguable. • Ask yourself if your draft thesis addresses the assignment • Question each part of your draft thesis • Clarify vague phrases and assertions • Investigate alternatives to your draft thesis (what else could you say? Would that statement be more effective than what you’ve written?)
Conclusion Format • Use (almost) the opposite format to what you used for your introduction paragraph: • Thesis – restate it, using different words to say the same thing. • Sentence two – restate your synopsis. • Sentence three – write a general statement that wraps up your work and transitions your reader from your essay to real life.