Monday, March 9 - Friday, March 13

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Friday
The objective today was to complete and hand-in an essay outline and a thesis statement for the essay on empathy. I will check the outlines that I received and Monday's class will be dedicated to getting a draft started.

Thursday
Today we looked at two strong examples of essays and used them to define the criteria needed for the essay everyone will about empathy. For the remainder of the class we worked on the thesis statements and outlines for the essay.

 Wednesday
Shortened class today due to PLC, so most of our time was taken up with reviewing how to write an essay introduction. Tomorrow we will review the body paragraph structure again, before working on the What is Empathy? essay.

 Tuesday
After silent reading I checked in with everyone about the reading of The Lottery (read just so you could do the essay practice sheet - we will not take it up in any formal way) and the completion of the Essay Practice #2 -writing a body paragraph. You must check the introduction of the essay to know what to write in the body AND you must ensure you are supporting the thesis in the paragraph, so you need to deal with foreshadowing. Next we moved returned to thesis writing and creating a plan for the upcoming essay about empathy. Your topic/question is: What is empathy? and you MUST write about at least one of the recents texts (NOT The Lottery) and you MUST include quotes. An essay thesis and plan will be collected and checked tomorrow.

 Monday

 Here are my TOC notes from today's class

1.     Silent reading for 10-15 minutes.
2.     Go to library to pick up Inside Stories. Have students read The Lottery.
3.     They were given and essay worksheet on Friday. Once they have read the story, they will be able to complete the essay practice on the sheet which involves writing a body paragraph to complete the essay. Read introduction to figure out what the body paragraph must deal with. Collect completed sheets today.

4.     Last week they were asked to do a 3,2,1 about the story called “Cousins” – they must do today and hand in: 3 topics the story deals with; 2 theme statements (what is author saying about life? society? or human behaviour?); 1 thesis statement that could be used in an essay (topic + opinion = something they could argue in an essay)

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