1. Touch base with your group of 4. What did you come up with?
Day 2
Touch base with your group of 4. What did you come up with?
Have students take out their worksheet and compare their answers.

2. Theme Exploration / Thesis Creation
With a partner, draft a thesis that effectively answers the following prompt:
How does Hurston (in this excerpt of Their Eyes were Watching God) and Ferlinghetti (in his poem “Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt ”) both use diction and figurative language to establish a unified theme?
Tips:
Remember the six traits of theme.
Feel free to use the thesis skeleton.
When done, submit your thesis via Socrative.
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Give the duos time to work, then pass out a notecard to each duo.
Once you have a notecard from each partnership, work through some of the thesis statements. Have them flesh out what is good and what is flawed with each thesis.

3. Theme Turns Into an Essay
Using the class feedback and discussion, perfect your thesis.
Then, write a multi-paragraph essay that fully supports the thesis.
The essay expectations are as follows:
It needs to be in your RJ
It must be hand-written
It must be in blue/black INK
It should contain quotes from both the poem and the segment of the novel
Remember: 1 quote is luck, 2 quotes is coincidence, 3 or more is a pattern/proof
It should resemble a timed essay (think of it as a non-timed timed essay)
You have the rest of the hour to work on this.
The completed essay will be your ticket in the door on Wednesday.
Give them the rest of the hour to work on this and then anything that is remaining becomes homework.