- Juniors -  

Tonight: Complete thesis and three body paragraphs on colored paper for your assigned section of "A More Perfect Union." As you write, be sure to use the following resources as examples and to keep your writing goals in mind. Resources include model essays, an analysis progression, sentence stems for analysis, and the "before and after" we read together in class today.

Outlines - Topic Sentences, Evidence, and Claims
Sentence Stems to Improve Analysis
Leveled Analysis 
Before and After Analysis
Florence Kelley Examples 


-Seniors -

Read to p. 126 in Flight. Check your understanding by answering the following questions:

1.) Who is Jimmy and what is his moral dilemma?
2.) Who is Abbad and what do we learn about him? How is his story different and similar from the other characters we have met in the book so far?
3.) What does Zits learn while living as Jimmy?
4.) What is the setting and how does is reflect Zits' mental state at this point in the novel?
5.) Do you find this section more or less effective than the other sections of the novel so far? Why or why not?