Adding an introduction and conclusion

Goals: Adding introduction and conclusions to your essay. 

Agenda:
Read
Dramatic Reading
Working on your essay

Dramatic Reading: 
An opportunity to show off your dramatic reading skills for course credit. 
I'll explain more in class. See also the tab above for more information. 

Essay Work: Introduction:

1. The names of the authors and the titles of their work. 
2. A brief summary (one-three sentence) of the gist of each creation, text or film.
3. A thesis statement that explains how the author and director use similar or different techniques to create the irony, moods, and themes in their works.

Conclusion: 

1. Restate your claims, hint look at the beginning of each of your body paragraphs. 
2. Restate your thesis statement from the introduction. 

Period 3: We will be going to the field for the ROTC Pass and Review Ceremony. 

Reminders: 

Keep writing. Draft of your complete essay is due Tuesday 3/14. 

Keep reading. Book reviews happen on Wednesday 3/15. 
Tomorrow we visit the counselors. Bring a good book.