1. Warm Up 10/18 Pull up your rough draft (three body paragraphs).
Don’t write any responses, but instead, just consider these questions: did you finish your three body paragraphs? If not, what do you need to do today?

2. Learning Targets
To use the assignment sheet for the essay on The Things They Carried as a guide for our work.
To finish our first drafts of the TTTC Style Analysis Essay.

3. Steps to Completing Your Work Today:
Complete drill.
Look over the suggested introductory paragraph format (slide 4). Figure out how you can
Apply the funnel method, while still incorporating both a synopsis of the book AND your thesis statement.
Refine your thesis statement
Look over the suggested concluding paragraph format. Figure out how to
Rephrase the thesis.
Apply the backwards-funnel method.

4. Introductory Paragraph – the Funnel Method
Your intro should be at least three sentences long:
Begins with a broad, general statement about the topic (put your synopsis here).
Follows with narrower, more specific statements about the topic (connect your synopsis to your thesis statement)
Final sentence is thesis statement.

5. Thesis Statement Refinement
***This is the single most important sentence in your essay.***
To get to your final thesis, you'll need to refine your draft thesis so that it's specific and arguable.
Ask yourself if your draft thesis addresses the assignment
Question each part of your draft thesis
Clarify vague phrases and assertions
Investigate alternatives to your draft thesis (what else could you say? Would that statement be more effective than what you’ve written?)

6. Conclusion Format
Use (almost) the opposite format to what you used for your introduction paragraph:
Thesis – restate it, using different words to say the same thing.
Sentence two – restate your synopsis.
Sentence three – write a general statement that wraps up your work and transitions your reader from your essay to real life.

7. Homework
Rough draft due of TTTC Essay due Friday, 10/21!