1. Happy Tuesday! (9/8)  Pick up a warm-up and helping/linking verbs handout from the front table.  Begin working on the Tuesday column. Look over your previous diagramming practices for reminders on what to do if you get stuck! You need to have your composition notebook today. Get it out and have your essay draft open and ready to go!

2.  Vocabulary Workshop Unit 1 Activities (pages 12-21) due Friday, 9/11  Make sure to study the 20 words as there will be a quiz on Friday! (You do not have to complete the Writing: Words in Action section. All other activities must be completed.) Extra Credit Opportunity for the 1 st Nine Weeks: Read A Separate Peace by John Knowles (timed writing to be completed in tutoring by the end of the nine weeks – Friday, Oct. 23)

3.  How did you organize your essay? (Number of paragraphs, what went into each paragraph, etc.)  Did you write a thesis? If so, write it down on the front side of the notecard. If not, write “no thesis.” If you were absent on Friday (9/4), read over the prompt and decide on a dangerous scene to cover. If time permits, write what you believe a good thesis sentence would be for your essay.

4. Date Notes and Assignments Page # 9/4AP Essay Prompt (Danger Influence) 1 9/4Essay Draft (Danger Influence) 2-4 9/8Writing Workshop: Deconstructing a prompt and thesis sentences 5-6 **Your page number might be different for the writing workshop notes depending on how many pages you wrote on for your essay draft. The writing workshop notes must start on a left page (odd number).

5.  Read the prompt all the way through once.  Reread, looking for key words.  Break the prompt into the essential components of the essay. L

6. The central character in a novel or play often encounters moral, physical or psychological danger. From a novel or play select a situation (episode or scene) in which the central character encounters danger. In a unified essay describe: a) how the situation reveals the character, b) how the revelation of character in this situation relates to the structure and meaning of the work.

7. 1. Situation of moral, physical or psychological danger: 2. Central Character: 3. Character trait revealed: 4. Connection to meaning: R Apply these four steps to the scene you already selected.

8. 1. Situation of moral, physical or psychological danger: Ishmael alone in the woods (chapter 8) A.Physical: lack of water, lack of sleep, animal attacks B.Psychological: mental images of violence and war plaguing his mind. 2. Central Character: Ishmael 3. Character trait revealed: Resilience 4. Connection to meaning: Mankind will do whatever is necessary to survive.

9.  Your thesis is the roadmap to your paper. It lets readers know where your paper is headed.  The thesis is generally located at the end of your introduction.  A strong thesis answers the question asked in the prompt AND provides new insight.  A well-constructed thesis statement makes the difference between a thoughtful essay and a simple retelling of facts. L

10. 1. Situation of moral, physical or psychological danger: Ishmael alone in the woods (chapter 8) A.Physical: lack of water, lack of sleep, animal attacks B.Psychological: mental images of violence and war plaguing his mind. 2. Central Character: Ishmael 3. Character trait revealed: Resilience 4. Connection to meaning: Mankind will do whatever is necessary to survive.

11. Wondering lost and lonely in the woods, Ishmael Beah faces both physical and psychological dangers with a resiliency that ultimately proves mankind will do whatever is necessary to survive.

12. 1. Situation of moral, physical or psychological danger: Bonzo and his friends corner Ender in the bathroom in order to teach him a lesson (physical danger – chapter 12) 1. Central Character: Ender Wiggin 2. Character trait revealed: Cunning 3. Connection to meaning: People have a killer instinct when threatened.

13. Facing the threat of physical violence from Bonzo and his lackeys, Ender Wiggin relies on his cunning to surmount the odds and ultimately unleash a killer instinct that reveals humans will stop at nothing when threatened.

14.  Create your new thesis using the four components we identified when deconstructing the prompt.  When you are finished, trade cards with a neighbor to compare ideas and provide feedback.