Allow Me To Introduce Myself: February 28, 2020

Focus: What is the purpose of a critical review introduction?

Because your next several in-class work days require extraordinary focus, you will receive 10 points a day for your in-class work ethic.

1. Warming up our Valentines of the Day and our final round of Book Talks (sans questions)

2. Checking in with your Critical Review progress thus far...

3. Composing your Critical Review introductory paragraph; color coding a few examples

• Put a giant box around the thesis and read it carefully.

• First color = Relevant summary (think about the narrative arc)

• Second color = Thematic topics (what's the thesis about?)

• Third color = Tone (praise? criticism? both?)

HW:
1. By Monday, the following items on your Critical Review need to be finished before class:

• Revised thesis

• Outline (should at least have topics for 2 body paragraphs and 2 quotations per body paragraph)

• Introductory paragraph

2. By THURSDAY, March 5: Entire rough draft is due at the start of class (50 points A&C).

FINAL DRAFT MUST BE PRINTED AND TURNED IN BETWEEN MARCH 14 AND MARCH 17 BY 4:00 PM. 

The Timeline

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Feb 24 Finish The Green Book.	Feb 25 Graded discussion on The Green Book.	Feb 26 Meet the critical review and start brainstorming.	Feb 27 Form a thesis and outline (in whichever order works).	Feb 28 Draft intro paragraph.
March 2 Start drafting 1st body paragraph.	March 3 Finish 1st body and start drafting 2nd body paragraph.	March 4 Finish drafting 2nd body paragraph and compose conclusion.	March 5 ROUGH DRAFT DUE AT START OF CLASS! Editing / last work day.	No school

Window for turning in final drafts (they must be PRINTED):

Thursday, March 14 - Tuesday March 17 by 4:00 pm.

They will be graded in the order in which they are turned in.