* Open
- Survey (if you were absent on block day)
- Week 13 Vocabulary: Incorporate quotations and apostrophes into your sentences.
1. analogous (adj.): comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things compared
- Greek analogia "proportion," from ana- "upon, according to" + logos "ratio," also "word, speech, reckoning". A mathematical term used in a wider sense by Plato.
- Jesus' idea that unless you "hate your father and mother" you cannot be his disciple is analogous to his idea that if your "right hand causes you to sin, cut it off": both are masterful examples of hyperbole.
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* Review the Thesis .pdf for a Few Minutes
* Now, the hard part!
- Handwritten on a sheet of paper
- Title it in the MLA fashion
- In a group, make a good prompt for Dickens OR Sir Gawain the Green Knight.
- On your own, compose an excellent thesis statement.
- A little help:
- Open Prompts
- Applied to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Passage Prompts
- How would Dickens work? Look especially in the 2000s.
- 20 points
- 5 points for a good prompt
- 15 points for a good thesis (5 points each)
- Provides an interesting argument (death to Sparknotes)
- Answers all aspects of the prompt
- Is grammatically correct
HW:Prompt and Thesis; Card
Did you know that if you don't learn how to use the apostrophe, you will be cursed with having to compose grammatically incorrect signs in discount shopping malls for the rest of your life?
Or worse:
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