Entry Task March 30, 2016 Take out your English Notebook. You have about 15 minutes to work on the following items:  Finish your dialectical journal #4.  Use dialectical journals to help you answer the 3 questions that you copied under the prompt.  Use your responses to the 3 questions to help you write a thesis.  Get your questions & thesis approved by Mr. Lessard. Grades Are Going In The Gradebook Today Opportunity For Team Points Have your dialectical journals 3 & 4 done, and a thesis approved by the end of the period. Don’t be caught off-task. Opportunity For Team Points Have your dialectical journals 3 & 4 done, and a thesis approved by the end of the period. Don’t be caught off-task.

Today’s GoalsToday’s Goals You will be able to: Understand and be able to apply thesis statements to essay structure. You will show this by: Taking notes on essay structure. Applying your learning from notes to your own essay.

Every Paper NeedsEvery Paper Needs Transitions To Help Ideas Flow

Your Thesis Is Your Map By observing Okonkwo’s many struggles with his private self and the man that others see, readers begin to grasp the immense difficulty but ultimate necessity of reconciling one’s own ideals with the expectations of the world, lest we risk our own destruction.  Okonkwo struggles with his private / public self  Necessary reconciliation of personal ideals with public expectations  Risk of failure and destruction According to the thesis, we need to show 3 things. These will become our topic sentences for our body paragraphs.

Outline Your Body Paragraphs One Table Per Paragraph CLAIM Topic Sentence EVIDENCE Quotes & Page #s ELABORATION Analysis / Deeper Meaning What part of the thesis will you be proving? How will you introduce it logically? Rely on dialectical journals Return to book if necessary What context is needed for the reader to understand the relevance of the evidence? What should we notice about the evidence? How does the evidence relate to the paragraph’s topic? How does what we are seeing in the evidence help us understand the thesis? What real-world applications, complications or questions arise? How is our understanding of the theme becoming more complex or nuanced? Use Transitions Within Paragraphs & Between Paragraphs To Connect Ideas And Make Them Flow

Work TimeWork Time Finish your dialectical journal #4.  Use dialectical journals to help you answer the 3 questions that you copied under the prompt.  Use your responses to the 3 questions to help you write a thesis.  Get your questions & thesis approved by Mr. Lessard.  Outline body paragraphs OK brain, show me what you can do.