1. Today’s Objective: Write the thesis statement of an analytical essay.
Bellringer: Answer these questions to the best of your ability (no dictionaries) in your journal.
What is a hypothesis (in science)?
What is a thesis (in English)?
Take out pen(cil), note paper.
A “writing thesis statements” packet will be handed out shortly after class begins.

2. Hypothesis:
An unproven theory that will be tested through study and experimentation.
Thesis:
A claim that will be proven through argument, analysis, and/or explanation.

3. Hypothesis:
A hypothesis can fail to be proven and still provide valuable scientific knowledge.
Interesting data may come out as a result of experimentation that is not relevant to the proof/disproof of the hypothesis.
Thesis:
A thesis MUST be proven.
Only evidence that contributes to the support of the thesis is of interest.

4. Dialectical Journal
Quote (p#) Fig.Lang./Lit.Dev. Analysis
“…the old foreign word Draws attention to man was Santiago’s … salao…” unluckyness. (p.1)

5. Passage: The first and final 6 paragraphs of the novel.
Think about what you know about Old Man and the Sea. How would you respond to the following prompt?
Passage: The first and final 6 paragraphs of the novel.
Read the passage carefully. In a well-written essay, explain how Ernest Hemingway uses figurative language to develop the theme of Old Man and the Sea.

6. Dramatic Irony:
The irony produced by the reader knowing something that characters in the novel, story, play, poem, etc. do not know.

7. In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway uses and in order to .