1. Warm Up 12/13
What is good about the five paragraph essay? What is not so good about it? Answer in 2-4 COMPLETE sentences.

2. Learning Targets
To select an organizational system for my essay which will NOT allow me to produce a five paragraph essay.
To build an outline for my Hamlet essay.

3. Moving Away from the 5 Paragraph Format:
----> A good piece of writing takes its reader on a "journey."

4. Ways to Organize your Body Paragraphs
Chronological (time)
Spatial order (location)
Causal order (organized by how things work)
Simple to complex
Narrow to wider implications
Obvious to surprising

5. Incorporating Thesis
Based on the work you did yesterday with the graphic organizer, choose your thesis idea (it should be in your journal from yesterday).
Choose a structure that works best for the essay that you want to write.

6. FOUR or FIVE Body Paragraphs
You have notes on quotations from each act of the play.
If you are going to organize your essay CHRONOLOGICALLY, you must include FIVE body paragraphs, with one quotation from each act.
If you are using any other format, you must include AT LEAST FOUR body paragraphs (with quotations from anywhere in the play).

7. OUTLINE FORMAT Conclusion –
Introduction (label which organization format you chose) –
Write out a rough idea that you might want to use based on one of these strategies:
make a connection to the readers
appeal to them
anticipate their needs
orient them in the direction of the "journey”
your main focus within your topic (thesis)
Body Paragraphs (do this for each of the four/five) –
Topic idea
Context
Quotation
Commentary: Pull out discrete words, phrases, etc. which illustrate the conclusion you’ve drawn. Then, connect the dots for the reader and prove your assertion/conclusion valid.
Conclusion –
Write out a rough idea that you may use based on one of these strategies:
mark the destination of the journey
provide a reflection
Close your idea, but make sure this paragraph is still "meaty"

8. Writing Timeline
NOTE: Anything that cannot be completed during this timeline shall be completed AT HOME.
TIMELINE:
December 13: Notes on structure/brainstorming
December 14th: Complete essay outline (with rough thesis idea) by midnight on Wednesday.
December 15th : Complete essay outline, improve thesis and write rough draft of one developed paragraph.
December 16th: Revise the outline/paragraph, submit by midnight on Friday.