1. Figure your totals on this week’s reading logs.
2 DECEMBER 2016
Figure your totals on this week’s reading logs.
The new reading log is due Dec 9th and requires
80 minutes.

2. QUICK REVIEW USING THE 3 LITTLE PIGS CONFLICT PARAGRAPH
The THESIS statement tells what the ESSAY will prove. In literary analysis it identifies the genre, the title and the author + the thesis claim + the three paragraph claims combined into one sentence.
The CLAIM sentence of each paragraph should name the conflict and identify its type.
Ex: The central conflict in “The Three Little Pigs” is character vs character between the pigs and the wolf.
The first MAIN IDEA sentence of each paragraph should identify what that specific conflict is about (what does one side want and how is the other side in opposition). Ex: Pigs want safety vs wolf wants to eat pigs.
The second MAIN IDEA sentence of each paragraph should identify how this conflict impacts the story by focusing on how it impacts the development of THEME, CHARACTERS or PLOT line
Ex: The pigs laziness put them in danger, which supports the theme that laziness is a negative trait.
Paragraph #1
SUPPORTING QUOTES: support the evidence with quotes.
EVIDENCE: paraphrase evidence from the story that supports each main ideas

3. Example of first body paragraph: from Three Little Pigs
claim
Main Idea
/Warrant
EVIDENCE
quotes
Pigs want to be safe and the wolf wants to eat them.
The pigs’ laziness puts them in danger (theme)
A1. Build homes for protection
A2. threatens the pigs.
A3. Wolf blows down the straw and stick houses to get to the pigs
#1 The central conflict in “The Three Little Pigs is character versus character between the pigs and the wolf.
“ravenous wolf” (5)
“Then I’ll ….in” (10).
“he could not get those bricks to budge”(14).
B1. Their houses collapse because they made them the easy way.
B2. It is the hard work of the third pig saves their lives.
“lived happily ever after…in their brick house” (15).

4. The main conflict in “The Three Little Pig” is character versus character between the pigs and the wolf. The pigs are the protagonists who want to build themselves a home that will keep them safe and comfortable, while the antagonist, the wolf, wants to eat them. The first two pigs build their homes quickly and easily because they are lazy. The wolf is able to blow both of their homes down and they run to their sibling’s home to escape. The last pig works hard to build a solid brick house and when the wolf attacks, he is unable to blow the brick home down to eat the three pigs inside. We read, “…he could not get those bricks to budge!”(14). The climax occurs when the wolf is unable to get to the pigs and leaves them to live in comfort. Through this conflict, the first two pigs learn that by being lazy they put their own lives in danger which supports the theme of the story, that laziness is a negative character trait and has negative consequences. The first 2 pigs’ unwillingness to work hard, created homes that were unsafe. It was their sibling’s hard work that kept them safe. In the resolution we are told that the three pigs “lived happily ever after—eating pea soup, sipping tea and baking pies in their brick house”(15).

5. 8 STAGES OF WRITING AN A+ ESSAY
____STAGE 1 = PRE-WRITING
____STAGE 2 = FIRST DRAFT, ROUGH DRAFT OF BODY PARAGRAPHS
____STAGE 3 = REVISING THE BODY PARAGRAPHS
____STAGE 4 = WRITING THE INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH & CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH
____STAGE 5 = ARRANGING & REARRANGING THE 5 PARAGRAPHS
____STAGE 6 = TYPING YOUR ESSAY
____STAGE 7 = FINISH YOUR ESSAY – MORE REVISION AND EDITING
____STAGE 8 = SUBMITTING YOUR ESSAY
As you complete each stage of writing, write the date you finished on the line next to
the title of that stage. For example, if you finish with the pre-writing today, fill in the write 12/1 on the line next to “STAGE 1”.
12/1

6. Advice based on what I am seeing in your pre-writes
PROBLEM: if you write about Brady vs. his friends AND J.T. and Digger vs. the law it is tempting to use the same evidence in both paragraphs and that makes for a weak essay (i.e. lower grade).
SOLUTIONS: 1. Don’t use two conflicts which both focus on J.T. & Digger. Choose a conflict that focuses on the Parks. OR 2. Be careful to pull different supporting evidence for the each conflict.

7. Advice based on what I am seeing in your pre-writes
PROBLEM: The second warrant is not proving the conflict is important to the story in a literary sense.
SOLUTIONS: 1. Include the literary terms in your second main idea/warrant sentence. You should be claiming the conflict is important because of it shows how a character has developed or come to understand the theme. So you should be stating that in the warrant. CHECK FOR THE KEY TERMS (character, theme)

8. TODAY…… Work quietly. Work hard. Work consistently. GOALS FOR TODAY:
You may listen to music if you have head phones.
Talk to me if you have questions.
If you are stumped and I am talking to someone else, try working one of your other t-charts…don’t just sit.
GOALS FOR TODAY:
COMPLETE STAGE 1 …PRE-WRITE ALL THREE PARAGRAPHS
WORK ON STAGE 2 ….WRITE THE FIRST DRAFT OF 2 OF YOUR 3 BODY PARAGRAPHS

9. On Monday:
First ½ of block: Completing Stages 2-3:
Stage 1 Prewriting
Stage 2 Drafting 3 body paragraphs
Stage 3 Marking body paragraphs for revision.
Second ½ of block: Completing Stage
Stage 4 Drafting your Introductory and concluding paragraphs
Stage 5 Writing or Typing a REVISED second draft of your essay (what you THINK might be your final draft, but it isn’t, not yet.)
On Tuesday:
Finish writing the REVISED second draft of your essay.
Peer Revision activity
Marking your essay for the REVISED typed draft of your essay.
On Thursday: a revised, typed final draft with all prewriting and rough drafts attached is due.
Students are responsible for typing their essays using MLA format as homework. If they do not have access to a computer they are welcome to stay after school or in at lunch to use the 2 student computers I have in my room or in the library computer lab.
They may have someone else type the essay for them, under the condition that no rewriting will be done by the typist. .