Focus: How do we read our quotations closely and use them to form a complex thesis?
1. Warming up with a sample close reading: How to find the MAGIC!
2. Close reading your notecards
3. Breaking for a demonstration on finding patterns using one of your notebooks
4. Using those patterns to form a thesis
Sample thesis: Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner reveals that in order to live deliberately, we must atone for our past mistakes.
5. Starting the document for tomorrow and giving ourselves a few reminders
HW:
Friday, Oct 25: Be ready to compose your literary essay in class this day. You may use your book and all of the prep work you've done in your notebook.
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