Wednesday 10/3

LATE START

We have an In class essay on friday over Beowulf, here is the link to the topics: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7HKsWF2Z1WHdkVJV29iYWV6Zzg/edit?pli=1

Here are some tips for the Essay:

•  Thesis
• Title, Author, Point, Why
• Body:
• Topic Sentence, main idea, why
• set up situation
• lead in, "quote" (anonymous 276). - 2/3 per paragraph
• explain quote
• connect to point your proving
• transition to next example
• concluding sentece
• repeat for the # of body paragraphs you have
• Conclusion:
• Restate thesis
• summarize argument
• end in satisfying conclusion
• Don'ts
• Personal words - I, you, me, my, our, we, us 
• No contractions
• No words like things, stuff, generalities, good, bad
• Misspelling of characters names

We ended with continuing our poster work on Beowulf