1) Bring your book. You might need it, you might not.
2) Be ready to go as soon as the bell rings.
Read the linked set of samples from the last set of papers, and the comments which follow.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARigzimXmDnvZGZ0dzhmcGhfMzBkYnc3bnRjeg&hl=en
No, they are not perfect, but read them for their strengths, and read my comments which follow them. I am really most concerned at this point that everyone work on avoiding the two most common flaws I'm seeing in the thesis of your passage analysis papers.
Fault #1: not starting off with a clear CLAIM--an idea that you bring to the thesis not already specificied in the prompt. Of course, some of you read/think more deeply than others, and I can't just "tell you" to write a brilliantly insightful claim. But you MUST make the effort to claim something, right from the start.
Fault #2: introducing devices with generic praise (e.g.careful selection of detail, expressive diction, intentional syntax). The best plan is to see cohesive purpose that relates to the claim, and make the exact connection clear. But sometimes that's complicated, and you don't fully understand where you're headed at the beginning. Then just listing them early and developing the effect/process as you go at least prevents the hollow effect of meaningless words.
See you tomorrow.
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