Homework Review: (Suggested: 5 Minutes)
Review your thesis statements
Underline the three best ideas.
Journal: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
Explain in detail 1) the sections of the stories you will need to review in order to write this paper and 2) the kinds of secondary sources you think would be helpful to you as you write this paper.
Group Work: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
Share Findings:
Groups Activity: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
Compare and contrast plot points in two stories using the same frame. Do this with three different combinations of stories. Be ready to report back to the class
Class Discussion
Homework:
Draft the paper for next class.
Guided Argument Assignment:[For distribution to students]
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Paper Two prompt. At this point, you have read several stories, all of which touch on issues related to play and work, though in different ways.
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You job is to draft a persuasive argument with a contestable thesis that compares and/or contrasts scenes from two stories.
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In your comments on each scene, you are to identify how income impacts a character’s understanding of play. You need to incorporate our other major terms, low-income, class, setting, boredom, and plot and any others into your general argument!
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This paper will require that you define these terms when you first introduce them into the paper.
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You are to follow the structure of a Toulmin argument, use proper in-text citation, and we will also be including a works cited page.
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Three secondary sources will be required
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1: Reading Quiz: (Suggested: 5 Minutes)
2: General Discussion of the story: (Suggested: 5-10 Minutes)
Journal Assignment: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
Keeping our basic class concepts in mind, how is this story similar to or different from another story we have read this semester? Follow the Toulmin model in your argument.
Class Discussion: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
Paper Two Prompt:
Guided Argument Assignment:[For distribution to students]
- Paper Two prompt. At this point, you have read several stories, all of which touch on issues related to play and work, though in different ways.
- You job is to draft a persuasive argument with a contestable thesis that compares and/or contrasts scenes from two stories.
- In your comments on each scene, you are to identify how income impacts a character’s understanding of play. You need to incorporate our other major terms, low-income, class, setting, boredom, and plot and any others into your general argument!
- This paper will require that you define these terms when you first introduce them into the paper.
- You are to follow the structure of a Toulmin argument, use proper in-text citation, and we will also be including a works cited page.
- Three secondary sources will be required
Homework for Wednesday:
In two pages, I want you to present and explain four possible thesis statements. You should be presenting the statement and supporting it with evidence from the story or stories that you could potentially use to support the argument in the full draft. We will be selecting from these thesis statements on Wednesday.
