Wednesday, Jan. 2 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Intro to Final Essay

*you should know of what stories you are analyzing and have copies of them by tomorrow (end of block)

*Rough Draft Thesis due by middle of block tomorrow

*Add your name to the list with the titles of the stories you are writing about (if you need a copy, talk to me)

*Work Time: themes, ideas for thesis: checked mid block tomorrow

*Finish Part 4 (74-83)

*TQE Discussion Pt. 4

*Hwk: Make sure you have finished your independent book and are posting your last post on your blog before it turns to Friday; thesis check tomorrow (if not today); Read Section 5 84-96 (stop after "...rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump.")

	Writer's Workshop Timeline	Wed. 2nd : Paper Introduced, get stories, work on thesis, find evidence Thesis Check (by end?), work on outline,	Thurs. 3rd : outline check (end of block –shared with me!!), work on body FINISH OMM in class	Fri. 4th : Notes on Intro/Conclusion, work on body, intro conclusion;
Mon. 7th: OMM Assessment Work on body, intro, conclusion	Tues 8th: Rough draft body checked by end today, work on intro/conclusion CONFER	Wed 9th: Work on intro/body/ conclusion CONFER	Thurs 10th: Intro/Conclusion Check (Whole draft done), work on revising CONFER	Fri 11th:  Revising CONFER
Mon 14th: Last day of work time (paper and presentation) CONFER	Tues 15th: Papers due	Wed 16th: Last day of worktime on presentations (some present first block?)	Thurs 17th: presentations	Fri. 18th: Presentations (end of semester)

*Assignment: Compare (how they show the same theme) and Contrast (how they show era/how they show theme differently) two selections from two different eras

*Selections: “The Trial of Thomas-Builds-the-Fire”, “The Law of Life”, “Yellow Wallpaper”

*Theme: ‘Cultural’ beliefs followed blindly destroying the individual?; Society silencing one who is different?

*Possible thesis: “The Trial of Thomas-Builds-the-Fire,” “The Law of Life”, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” embody the eras they were written in while emphasizing the idea that when society blindly follows the beliefs of the majority, individuals who don’t ‘fit’ are destroyed as well as displaying other similarities.

*Your thesis at this point is a ROUGH DRAFT!!  It can and most likely will change as you develop your body paragraphs