1. DUE date reminders
In –class essay FRIDAY (this activity will help prepare you)
Unit packets due FRIDAY

2. In-Class Essay Question – Write this on your assignment sheet
As your historical figure: Analyze why YOUR approach to promoting revolutionary change is more effective?

3. How is in-class essay graded?
Get out your assignment sheet (Gandhi vs. Mao debates) and let’s look!

4. Assignment #5: Thesis Practice Activity
Clear
Concise (not too long)
directly answers the question
Not too broad and NOT TOO SPECIFIC
(Goldilocks rule – “just right”)

5. The good thesis/bad thesis game
Which is more effective: violence or non-violence:
All of the following are BAD thesis statements for your debate on the effectiveness of violence vs nonviolence….but WHY?
Gandhi was an amazing man.
Mao showed violence was more effective and always works.
Nonviolence is always more effective as shown by the Salt March which demonstrated the amazing power of people to make their own salt and challenge authority.
[Hmm, this may not be a good thesis, but it might fit somewhere else in your essay……]

6. 1. Let’s rewrite one together: Write this on binder paper as an example to model
Good Thesis Example:

7. 2. Rewrite one of the following bad thesis statements on your own
2. Rewrite one of the following bad thesis statements on your own. The French Revolution had many causes and many effects. WWI was Germany’s fault. WWII was a war with a large human cost because of the Battle of Stalingrand and the Atomic Bomb.

8. The next step in a good essay: Evidence and Analysis
Write the definition of Evidence and Analysis Evidence: Facts to support your argument Analysis: A clear explanation of those facts and how they support your argument/connect to your thesis.

9. Question: Why are debates a good idea?
The following paragraph contains EVIDENCE and ANALYSIS. With a partner identify which is which.
Question: Why are debates a good idea?
Doing a debate in history class is not only fun – it can improve your health! <This is my topic sentence> A 2008 study from Harvard medical center showed that when teenagers got in a healthy, evidence-based argument with their peers, they burned more calories than their peers that did not. This shows that are worthwhile activities and everyodebates ne should do them. It also shows that teenagers like to argue and that we as adults should let them.