English 9 Class Notes

Objectives Students wrote introdutions to their essays.

Freshmen, you began working on introductory paragraphs today, different from others you’ve written in the past in that I instructed you to avoid using personal pronouns, asking ridiculous questions (like those of the “Have you ever wondered?” variety), and stating a reading history and taste (like those of the “In my class we read a book called X, and I liked it alot” variety).

I asked you to focus on:

  1. Writing a general statement about what you’re writing;
  2. Commenting on that statement by comparing/contrasting, analyzing, evaluating, et cetera; and
  3. Providing a thesis statement that explains what you’ll argue about what you’re writing in your paper.

This was foreign to you, but we worked the class period on it, and I asked that you continue to work on this introduction for homework.

May 12, 2008 | Filed Under English 9

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