1. Dystopia
Day 7

2. When you enter class… Pick up two handouts.
Begin filling out the Independent Reading one.

3. Today Introduce Outside Reading Warm-up: Grammar Thesis checks
Rewrite the ending to 1984
Themes (extending)
Outlining
Outline template
From thesis to outline
HW:
1. Outline
2. Grammar worksheet

4. Warm-up
Identify the flaw in each sentence. Also, identify part of speech for the underlined words.
When a person brings a glove to the game, they look a little goofy, but they have a better chance of catching a ball.
I hope the team brings their bats today!
The typical college student has difficulty adjusting to academic standards much higher than those of their school.

5. Key Questions Context: Why did the authors write these books?
Interpretation: What do their works communicate to readers?
Connection: Why do we still read them today?

6. Discuss Characters
Jot good ideas you hear in your notes! (interpretation box)

7. Thesis Reference text (not universal) Answer both parts of prompt?
Embodies
Theme

8. What common theme do the endings share?
Write your response in your own notes.
Can you spot the redundant word?

9. Rewrite the ending
With your groups, re-create the ending to 1984.

10. Ending and theme
If Orwell had gone with your ending, what would have been the theme?
What theme comes through with his ending?

11. Developing themes How can we extend the following themes?
Society always triumphs over the individual.
The truth never changes.

12. Developing themes How can we extend the following themes?
Society always triumphs over the individual when...
Although the truth never changes...

13. Developing themes How can we extend the following themes?
Society triumphs over the individual when freedom of expression is restricted.
Although the truth never changes, it becomes meaningless when people believe falsehoods instead.

14. Outside reading
See other ppt.

15. Thesis sample
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch embodies justice, which is a central theme to the novel.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is used to show the reader how justice fails.
Justice fails…
When?
Why?
How so?
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch embodies justice, and through his failure to save Tom Robinson, Lee suggests that justice will not always prevail in a system plagued by prejudice.

16. Thesis  Outline
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch embodies justice, and through his failure to save Tom Robinson, Lee suggests that justice will not always prevail in a system plagued by prejudice.
What do I need to prove here?
Turn these into Topic Sentences

17. Topic Sentences
Must be claims!