2. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. - Woody Allen
Lesson Plan

3. Review Parallelism
Grammar

4. Explications Get in groups (by poem)
Take time to thoroughly review the explications of at least two people in your group. Mark places where his/her analysis is questionable and make suggestions for other ways of interpreting the poem.
Focus on Paragraph One.
Explications

5. Thesis Statements Elements of an effective thesis.
A thesis statement must contain…
The title of the work(s) being addressed.
The topic that will be explored.
A universal message about the selected topic.
Make sure that your thesis answers the “So what?” question that your reader will invariably have.
Thesis Statements

6. Thesis Statements A thesis statement should be… Clear Insightful
Applicable
Debatable
Thesis Statements

7. Thesis Work Agenda Review Samples
Discuss Thesis – Topic Sentence Connections
On demand thesis write
Edit Session
Thesis Work

8. Ways to structure your essay
Possible Ways to Structure Your Essay (your essay should be 3-4 pages)
Poem as Intro
Short paragraph connecting the two works
Paragraph on Oedipus
Conclusion
Traditional Intro
Paragraph on Poem
Paragraph with poem and play
Ways to structure your essay