Great Job to the fast-posting Heroes! We will have to take a lovely blog photo next week to break up the monotony of research. While the Heroes may not be gregarious talkers, you've proven yourselves to be formidable posters. Good teamwork.
IGUANAS???? WHAT HAPPENED? I KNOW YOU KNEW THE ANSWERS!! In your defense, however, your discussion of the "This I Believe" essays was very insightful. I liked Max's comment about the 16-year-old who managed to include positive historical events to balance out the negative. Also, Tamara's comment connecting the author who believed in poetry to her own experiences was good. As a group, you had a very nice mini-discussion.
As for today's class.....I really enjoyed reading your essay drafts. Your belief statements were all very different and creative. Remember that these are PERSONAL essays, so by definition you are including personal information. Don't completely leave that part out or the essay won't be as effective. Overall, though, nice job on these. I can't wait to hear them on Friday.
PLEASE REVIEW THE GUIDELINES FOR THESE ESSAYS (DOWN A COUPLE OF POSTS).
Keep reading those research novels. We'll talk about sources on Friday.
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3 comments:
I have a question about our thesis statements, so I thought I'd post it on here. =) Can we only use one character in our paper? For instance, I'm using Cold Mountain, and my topic has examples from both Ada and Inman. Can I do that, or do I have to narrow it down to one?
I also have a question about our thesis statements, are they supposed to have three points, or can we have more than three? I wasn't sure since we are writing three to four pages.
These are good questions. Thanks for posting, as others may also be wondering the same thing.
As to Rachel's question:
Your thesis statement for this paper SHOULD HAVE THREE PARTS only. More than that, even for a longer paper, gets clumsy.
What you CAN AND SHOULD do, however, is include sub points for each thesis point. I'll give you an outline sheet in class. You can start filling in sub points, and we'll see what works.
As to Sarah's question:
You can definitely use more than one character in the paper. We'll have to look at your thesis statement and see what you are arguing/ asserting. It's great to use examples from more than one character to support your thesis.
Like I said in response to Rachel's question.....You can start filling out the outline sheet with your thesis and examples, and we can work with it to see how you might use those characters most effectively.
Hope this helps!
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