Learning Targets:  I can make connections between literature, history, and the world I live today.

I can write a logically coherent argument supported by multiple smaller arguments and proofs. 


Bellringer: What did you learn about the French Revolution, its causes and women?

Revised due dates: 

2nd draft due Wednesday November 12

Final Draft due Friday, November 14

This poem was written in 1991 by a 40 year-old woman in Ireland. Is it relevant to young American men and women in 2014? Explain your answer. 


Is it more or less relevant for young men and women in India or Afghanistan?






Do women or men spend more time with children and housework?

Does Boland think that women have been too passive?

UNC Style Manual
UNC Style Handout - Good Guidance for Good Prose

What questions do you have about pages 12-14 of the AP Writing Sourcebook?  Did you notice...?

Thesis primer

Through its contrasting river and shore scenes, Twain's Huckleberry Finn suggests that to find the true expression of American democratic ideals, one must leave "civilized" society and go back to nature.

Through[wsw1]  one girl’s hatred and another’s desire, Johnson explores the human need for love and the affect the absence of love can have on a person[wsw2] .

Although Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” is set in Paris during the Great

Depression and Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” takes place in the South during the 1920’s, both stories weave back and forth in time through retrospection and flashback.

Although Jane does not condemn Blanch Ingram, Rochester, and the rest of the party individually, she disapproves of the principles of the upper class as a whole[WSW3] .

While both Northerners and Southerners believed they fought against tyranny and oppression, Northerners focused on the oppression of slaves while Southerners defended their own right to self-government.

In The Tide Turned, O’Brien’s tale of love between a father and his son illustrates the theme of optimism[wsw4] ; even[wsw5]  in utter desolation, there is still hope enough for one’s posterity to lead a decent life[wsw6] .

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 [wsw1] Kati begins her thesis with a subordinate (helping/supporting ) clause).  This helps set up the main clause by explaining a means by which the author develops the theme.

 [wsw2]Complex sentences can get lengthy and awkward; note how Kati avoids this , creating a sentence that says just enough.  One simple means of avoiding thesis sentence sprawl is to leave the title of the book out of the thesis.  Since Kati mentioned the title of the book  earlier in the paragraph, there is no need to mention it again.

 [WSW3]Complex sentence – subordinate clause, main clause

 [wsw4]First clause introduces a broad theme; it sets up the main clause that follows.

 [wsw5]The second clause, Brian’s main point, is more specific.  Brian uses the adverb even to emphasize just how bad the conditions are and yet…then he delivers his main point, a more specific explanation of the optimism he saw in the novel.

 [wsw6]Imagine you are giving a speech.  How would yolu open it so that you connect with your audience and then flow naturally from one sentence to the next - from Charles.  Using this strategy will help you remember that you are writing for an audience and that every sentence and paragraph should serve a purpose. This in turn will encourage unity and coherence.

Page 43: Avoiding "this" sentence starters.

Writing first drafts without quotes

TBTT - Tie back to thesis

Take time to research and revise; I want to conference with you quickly. (25 minutes)

Last night's Homework: 

Do a little research on the causes of the French Revolution. 

Read page 12 in the gold AP Writing Sourcebook. Note how you can cite embedded quotes into sentences and put the page # at the end of the sentence.

Bring a typed draft tomorrow (10 points); you will do a self-assessment of your paper and I will conference with people.  We will also do some follow-up work with It's A Woman's World.

Continue discussion about "When the King's head gored it's basket" and the French Revolution"

Write an evaluative question

Heroes by David Bowie: What is the tone and what contributes to it?

London Calling

First Draft due Friday, November 7.

Almost Final draft due Tuesday, November 11

Final Paper Due November 12