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Edit May 13
Essay planning!
It’s time to start planning your first essay of the year.
Step 1 is ALWAYS to make sure that you have a strong thesis. We just learned about those. Remember? Your thesis needs to be one sentence. It needs to be clear. It needs to be an opinion that could be argued/debated. It needs to be reasonable. Good thesis statements contain information about how you’ll go about proving your point.
Once you have a good thesis (or at least a strong, clear idea and have some ideas for how you’ll prove your point) you can start planning the structure of the essay.
Watch this: https://www.flocabulary.com/five-paragraph-essay/
3_five-paragraph-essay-activities
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Student username: student23038
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Point of View Review!
After reviewing the Of Mice and Men chapter questions, it seems like a lot of people forgot what the different points of view in writing are. Here’s some review!
Watch this! https://www.flocabulary.com/point-of-view/
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Edit May 12
Essay Writing! Fun!
When I tell students that we’re going to write essays, the reaction isn’t always excitement. Some students have the idea that they’re hard, even boring! They’re wrong! Those students don’t know the secret formula. Learn, you will, young Padawan Learners.
Yesterday we started to look at this lesson, where we started to plan out some thoughts for an essay.
Today!
1. Watch this fun video from our friends at Flocabulary
2. Fill in those missing lyrics! 02_ThesisLyrics
3. Take a look at some Thesis statements, and decide whether they’re strong or not: 03_ThesisAnalysis
You’re now qualified to write your own thesis! Our topic will be about whether George did the right or wrong thing by shooting Lennie.
The first step is to come up with your argument. I would create a T-chart, listing on one side the reasons why, in your opinion, it may have been right for George to shoot Lennie, and on the other side, why he might have been wrong.
You should list as many reasons for and against as you can. Put an asterisk * beside the ones that you think are the strongest.
Once you have looked at both sides of the argument, decide what your opinion is. It may be possible that you will see valid reasons on both sides of your chart, but the strongest argument will always choose a side.
Come up with a strong thesis statement that states and briefly supports your opinion.
Of Mice and Men Review & Activities
Test your memory. Without discussing or looking in the book, see if you can remember details from the book. Fill out this document.
Next, check out this neat site for some activities relating to Of Mice and Men.
Start with “Main Session”:
You can move the tool bar around. You can resize it with the “Up” arrow. The “house” button starts you all over again! You can use the left/right arrows to move between sections or press the buttons for the sections.
Drag the quote from the bottom box into the box beside the correct character:
Put the events in order by dragging the numbers 1-14 into the circle beside the statements. You can move/change your answers.
Read each statement and decide whether it has to do with the theme “Loneliness,” “Violence,” or “Dreams.” Click the button for your choice to see if you’re correct.
We will be writing an essay supporting or arguing against George’s decision at the end. You can start planning your essay by filling in details in the chart (or create one on paper or in a Word/Google document.)
At the end of your planning, you can press “Print” to keep a copy for your essay, if you wish.