1. Warm Up : February 26rd
Create an analytical thesis statement for the topic of online bullying/trolling, or, the disinhibition effect (The online disinhibition effect is a loosening (or complete abandonment) of social restrictions and inhibitions that would otherwise be present in normal face-to- face interaction during interactions with others on the Internet). You may work with a partner to create this thesis statement. You have three minutes.

2. Learning Targets
To write an analytical thesis statement for a new topic.
To work in groups to create a body paragraph using pre-generated notecards.
To identify what can be taken from this lesson and applied to your drafting of your essay in the computer lab this week.

3. Today’s Agenda Get into groups of four. Get notecards from Lackland.
Of the 12 notecards, pick the appropriate information to build ONE “body paragraph.” This might mean 2, 3, or 4  note cards that go together.
Then, build the paragraph by the end of the period, following this structure:
Topic sentence
Context/detail pairs, with appropriate transitions
Commentary/analysis addressing as many of these questions as possible:
What does this pattern of evidence lead you to conclude? (third person)
In what ways does this conclusion connect to your thesis? (third person)
20 minutes!

4. Wrapping it up
What did you learn from this activity that you can implement into your own drafting of your essay this week? List out (bullets) 2 – 3 ideas.
If you are right on target with your work, answer these questions: what concerns do you have about completing this project? What do you feel confident about?
There are a few students who are behind in their work. Some of you are far behind (if you didn’t turn in your outline, I’m talking about you). If this is you,
Write me an explanation of why, and
Create a plan of how you will catch up.
10 minutes

5. TO DO after group activity:
Sign up for a Writing Conference!
Draft at least ONE body paragraph of your essay. Do this on your SRE Google Document (be sure it’s shared with me).Use the suggested format from yesterday’s lesson (find it on our class blog).
Apply the new learning from today to the drafting of your essay today.

6. Homework Formal Works Cited Due Tuesday, 2/27
Rough Draft of SRE due by date of writing conference.