Honors 01-14-2014

With presentations set to be completed tomorrow, we will be turning our full attention to TIPP.  But one thing I want to discuss before moving forward completely is your thoughts on our experience over the last month and a half.  The presentations were individually driven and took a chunk of time, but what were your thoughts on the process as a whole?  Is it something I should try again next year?  Is it something that could do with a couple tweaks?  a major overhaul?  no changes at all?  I'll want some of your feedback tomorrow, so please be thinking about it.  I already received some good feedback from period two today and am looking forward to hearing what periods one and six are thinking.

You should be researching TIPP last night, tonight, tomorrow night regardless of the period you are in. Stake out a half an hour or so and find out a couple reasons why your person is so influential.  Nail some quotes. Locate some great sources.  Don't procrastinate.  You aren't getting six weeks on this baby.

We discussed a general outline of the paper today in period two and it looked something like this.

I.  Introduction
     A. Grabber lead
     B. Transition from lead to claim
     C. Claim
II. Influential Supporting Argument #1
     A. Topic sentence
     B. Argument complete with evidence and support in the form of cited quotes
     C. Close the paragraph
III. Influential Supporting Argument #2
     A. Transitional topic sentence
     B. Argument complete with evidence and support in the form of cited quotes
     C. Close the paragraph

You repeat the above as often as necessary--each student must decide

IV. Counter-Argument
     A. Transitional topic sentence
     B. Counter-argument with evidence and support in the form of cited quotes
     C. Close the paragraph

                                                     --OR--

IV. Counter-Argument

     A. Transitional topic sentence

     B. Counter-argument with evidence and support in the form of cited quotes

     C. Refutation of counter-argument

     D. Refute with evidence and support in the form of cited quotes

V. Conclusion

     A. Restating the claim

     B. Summing up the main arguments

     C. Closing with a BANG!

As we discussed in class, the location of the counter-argument and its refutation is up to the individual author.  While you don't want to drop it in the middle of your supporting arguments, it could just as easily be placed in the first body paragraph as it could the last.

Tomorrow we'll do a quick review of citations both internal and for the Works Cited page that you will need.  I know you have done oodles of internal citations this year and written a few Works Cited pages as well, but a couple students asked for help and there's nothing wrong with a refresher.

RESEARCH!

See you soon.