Thesis Reading Day

Do now: Take out your thesis book and paper/pencil

Objectives:

• demonstrate effective silent reading
• select a novel for the senior thesis

Agenda:

1. do now

2. 20 minutes: SSR

3. On the paper: write your name, the book title and author, and your initial reader response-- would you continue to read for senior thesis?

4. Watch Gatsby

HW: tba

Death of a Salesman

Do now:  What is your definition of a salesman? How is a salesman different from someone
in a different occupation?  What attitudes do you think salesman should have to be successful? What attitudes would hinder him?

Objectives:

• demonstrate effective silent reading
• select a novel for the senior thesis
• actively watch a performance of an American Tragedy

Agenda:

1 do now

2. 20 minutes: SSR
2a. On a piece of paper: write your name, the book title and author, and your initial reader response-- would you continue to read for senior thesis?

3. Intro Death of a Salesman 

4.Begin watching Death of a Salesman

HW: Essay due FRIDAY

Senior Thesis Link

Senior Thesis Link

Gatsby work day/ Thesis day

Do now: What do you have left to do in your essay?  (answer on socrative: tls108)

Objective:

• Use peer suggestions to revise essay
• Use school databases to find secondary sources on thesis authors

Agenda:

1. do now

2. 1-mod: Gatsby essay work time

3. 2nd mod: 

• Decide which FOUR books you think you will read for your FIRST CHOICE author/topic
• use one of the school databases to find THREE articles about THREE books (you do not need to print them; however, you will need the bibliography information)

4. Summarizer

HW: Bring a thesis book to class (THURSDAY: Pink, FRIDAY: Blue). Essay is due FRIDAY

Gatsby Peer Edit Workshop

Do now: Find a partner (can be a group of three). Share your google doc with your partner(s).

Objectives:

• provide effective critiques and suggestions for revisions 
• work effectively in a pair
• work independently to revise essay

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Open the Peer editing google doc (CLICK HERE)

3. Make a copy of the peer editing doc and share it with your partner

4. Read your partner's essay (feel free to make proofreading/other comments in paper)

5. Fill out the peer editing handout

6. Verbally discuss what you wrote in the peer editing handout

7. Work independently to revise your essay

HW: Work on essay.  Essay is due Friday.

Blacker Awards- Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 6:30PM

Experience the senior thesis process first hand at the Lillian F. Blacker Awards ceremony.  The three winners, plus a panel of seniors, will share excerpts from their papers and discuss the entire thesis process.  There will be a Q&A session for you to ask questions about the process.

You can earn extra credit TWO ways:

1. Attend and sign my attendance form at the end of the panel discussion

2. Ask the panel an appropriate question about the senior thesis process

Gatsby 6.4

Do now: Review your note cards

Objectives:

• create note cards analyzing primary and secondary sources
• begin to draft research essay

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Check thesis statements

3. Workshop: begin drafting essay

4. Summarizer

HW: Draft for Peer Editing due MONDAY