Finding the Underlying Structure: April 4, 2018

Focus: How do we structure a lengthy, complex essay?

Shortened class due to lengthened Tribe

1. Warming up with each other's blogging brilliance

• Which book(s) from A.P. Literature will likely make an appearance in your culminating essay?

• Scroll through each other's Big Question Blogs and read others' posts on your book(s). Leave comments on any blogs that are helpful. You can also steal a line or two, but you will need to cite that person as a source.

2. Scrolling through your own brainstorming and color coding any possible patterns.

• Click HERE for Chase's sample brainstorming and color coding.

If you're not finding any patterns, or if you're only finding one or two, you need to keep brainstorming.

3. Using your patterns to form your outline

• Click HERE for Kyle's sample outline.

HW:
1. Continue working on your outline with the goal of completing it and either e-mailing it to me by the end of the week or coming in for a conference. Click here for the culminating essay timeline.

2. Start hunting for other artifacts you might want to use in your essay...childhood artwork? Diary entries? Letters to Santa? Photos?

3. The end of 12 weeks is Friday, April 6 (the Friday after spring break). All make-up work / revised work from the last 6 weeks is due by then. If you wish to revise your critical review or poetry essay, you must conference with me this week.