Today – Students will be grouped according to topics selected for the “Thesis Development Guide Sheet” assigned yesterday. Students will then work together to analyze the ideas with an evaluation tool.
After the evaluation of each member’s thesis and outline, the group will collaborate to create a new thesis, main ideas, and concrete details for a topic not discussed during the group work. If this is not finished in class, it will be homework to finish individually.
Today – See the slides below. Tonight’s homework handout for narrowing a general topic to thesis statement with three main ideas and three concrete details for each main idea can be found here.
These also serve as a thesis statement with topic sentences created from the brainstormed main ideas supporting the thesis. I underlined the main idea in each topic sentence from the brainstorming.
Today – Students were introduced to the process for developing ideas for a five paragraph essay. They developed an outline as a class under the direction of Mr. Thompson and then went home with a provided thesis and will develop an outline in the same manner as we did in class. In addition to tonight’s homework, continue preparing for the sentence structure analysis quiz planned for next week.
See the slides below for everything covered in class.
