Section outline

  • MONDAY:

    >Works Cited page -- see Google Classroom

    TUESDAY:

    >Read the article below, or go  >> HERE <<  to read on Google.

    >Assign outline -- due Friday. I will discuss briefly today, and more on Thursday. This should be an outline based on your research about your topic, and with your thesis statement at the top. Outlines should be typed and handed in Friday.

    > Read the article below.


    WEDNESDAY:

    Student-free day

    THURSDAY:

    >Vocabulary quiz / new vocabulary;

    Review of outline -- see sample outline (below) for the article I had you read. This should be an outline based on your research about your topic, and with your thesis statement at the top. Outlines should be typed and handed in Friday.

    FRIDAY:

    >Outline due today -- discussed Tuesday and reviewed Thursday. You will get your outlines back Monday.

    Assign: Introductory paragraph -- discussed in class. A few things that I went over in class:

     Thesis: High altitude climbers should always use bottled oxygen.

    • Start broadly / catch the reader’s attention: brainstorm

    Personal story – yours or someone else’s

    “Can’t catch my breath.”

    The thrill of accomplishment

    The need to conserve weight when climbing

    • Include some of what you researched, but in a broad sense (maybe some of the research that doesn’t fit into your paper):
    • Narrow to your thesis: dependent on which avenue you have taken to get here.
    • Finish introductory paragraph with your thesis statement.

    Use yesterday's cell phone article/essay as a model. Notice how it starts broadly and ends with the thesis (even though she really has two thesis statements). It is a "backwards" paragraph in that the one sentence you have already done is the last sentence of the paragraph, but you know that your paragraph needs to read as a flowing narrative from A → B, B → C, C → D, and D → E, where E is the thesis statement. So the difficulty is deciding what A, B, C, and D are, and how they must flow from one sentence to the next and end with E

    INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH DUE MONDAY.



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    Handouts for the week: