Thursday, November 1, in class essay

Note from Ms. Dewey;

The theatre department has been nominated to apply to the American High School Fringe Festival in 2014. Students in all majors who are interested are invited  to come to a meeting in the ensemble with their parent or guardian tomorrow night Thursday Nov. 1^st at 6:30 pm.

Note: Mr. Tirre sent out the list of students who are excused tomorrow to participate in the matinee. As always, you are responsible for the missed class material. In this case, as it is a graded-class discussion,  and will be unable to make this up, as a substitute, please write a 300 summary of the of Peltier's experience at Ogala and why he compares the Indian experience to Vietnam. This will count as the two grades: one for the discussion, the other for the reading notations (thesis and supporting information) from the reading. This is due by Sunday evening at midnight. I'll have tomorrow's blog up by the end of the day. Make sure to check it and stop by tomorrow to gather any handouts.

In class essay: take out your completed corroboration table. This is your source material for the essay. Make sure to incorporate your textual evidence, noting your source. Think about transition words: handout (copy below; keep as a reference throughout the year.)

Essay topic / due at the close of class. Compare (look at the similarities) and contrast (look at the differences) among the three early English colonial settlements along the Eastern Atlantic seaboard.

1. You will begin with a hook sentence, that is an introductory observersation about your topic. This is a generalized statement. This is followed by your thesis statment, also known as a controlling idea. (you may reverse this process, if you wish, but a well-written introduction will have both.)

2. Now you will have two paragraphs: one comparing and one contrasting. In each you will make a point (paragraph controlling idea) and interweave your proof. For each paragraph you will make an analysis statement.

3. In your conclusion, you will not repeat the introduction, but make a synthezize statement, one that unites the whole essay. Ask yourself the long term ramifications of these settlements, historical parallels, philosophical observations.

Corroboration Table__NAME______________________________________________________________________

Topic: 17^th century encounters between the English and the native populations. For each of the sources find specific textual evidence. You will be using this material for an in class writing assignment.

Question:	Prior knowledge:	Source 1 Byrd’s The Westover Chronicles / Dividing Line		Source 2   Of Plimouth Plantation	Source 3  History of Virginia	Synthesis: What ideas do these sources of evidence share?	Conflicts/ questions: Where do these sources disagree? What new questions do we have?
What was the Purpose of the colony?
How did the English treat the native population?
How did the native population react to the English?

 

Time

After a while    Currently     Immediately     Recently

Afterwards     During      In the future     Soon

At last     Finally    Later     Suddenly

At present    First, (second, third,  etc.)

Meanwhile    Then

Briefly   Gradually   Now   Finally

In the beginning    At the end   In addition to   Today

Tomorrow    Yesterday    That day    Over time

As soon as    Sometimes     As long as     Before

Earlier    Presently    Simultaneously     So far

Place

Above     Beside     In front of     Outside

Across     Beyond    Inside     To the east (west, etc.)

Among    Between    In the middle    Toward

Behind    Farther    Nearby    Within

Below    Here    Next to

Order of Importance

The most significant     The most important     The primary reason    Above all

Equally important    Furthermore     Indeed    A major factor

Especially    In fact    Moreover    A major reason

Finally   In particular     Of major concern     Another significant

One of the greatest     Another factor    Another example     Another argument

Initially    First, second, third…     Primarily

Comparisons and Contrasts

The best thing    The worst thing     In contrast    In comparison

On the other hand    However     Unlike the      Similarly

Again     Also     In the same way     Likewise

Yet     On the contrary     Nevertheless      After all

At the same time     Otherwise     Though     Nonetheless

Conclusions and Summations

In summary      Finally     In closing

All in all      As has been noted     In any event       In other words

As shown      Thus       Accordingly      As mentioned earlier

Cause and Effect

As a result      Due to      Therefore Leads to

Because If…then…       Thus        Consequently

Accordingly       For this purpose      Then       To this end