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Our Goals Brain warm-ups Songs Brainstorm ideas for your FORMAL ESSAY

BRAIN WARM-UPS Get into groups of FOUR Find a partner Each card is a different colour: BLUE RED BLACK Each colour corresponds to a circle on the other side, with letters in it. 1.Stack the cards face down in the middle of the table. 2.Someone in your group needs to be the card flipper. 3.Your pair has to figure out the word before the other pair to win the card. 4.The first pair to win 10 cards wins!

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FORMAL ESSAY IntroductionWhat point are you trying to make? Why are your ideas important? What are you arguing? 200 words BodyYour first idea/argument225 words Your second idea/argument225 words Your third idea/argument225 words ConclusionTime to summarise your essay and end it!125 words

Introduction What point are you trying to make? What are you arguing? Why are your ideas important? 200 words 1.Pick a theme to base your essay on. 2.Brainstorm! Come up with at least THREE examples of this theme in the novel. 3.Develop an awesome, specific idea, or argument, for your essay.

To Kill a Mockingbird: THEMES

To Kill a Mockingbird THEME: ___________________________

To Kill a Mockingbird: THEMES Isolation

To Kill a Mockingbird THEME: Isolation Characters: - Arthur (Boo) Radley - Mayella Ewell - Tom Robinson Poverty -Ewell family -Reputation -House -Depression -Cycle of poverty Race - Black versus White - Racism -Inequality -Stereotyping Physical Isolation -Since teenage years -Reputation/stereotyping -House -Depression Maycomb County -Small town -Recovering from Great Depression -Significant part of the novel – not just a place

IntroductionWhat point are you trying to make? That stereotypes can isolate people who belong to minority groups (people that are different). Why are your ideas important? Because this type of isolation still happens today. What are you arguing? 200 words Body1. Boo Radley – Social and Physical Isolation….225 words 2. Mayella Ewell – social isolation due to poverty (can’t go to school, bad reputation, etc)…. 225 words 3. Tom Robinson – social isolation by skin colour/race (he is guilty only because he is not white. Prejudice against people of colour)…. 225 words ConclusionDO THIS LAST!125 words

Next Steps… Develop an awesome, specific, idea/argument. For example: In the coming-of-age novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee powerfully analyzes the theme of isolation and its causes through several of the characters in the novel. Find some contemporary examples of social isolation due to poverty, racism and mental illness / victim of abuse. SNEEZE OUT a first draft of your introduction for tomorrow’s class.