Animal Farm Writing Process

Animal Farm Paper Assignment


Wednesday 3/20

• Go over Thesis Statement PowerPoint
• Write "I Statements" ("I am writing about _______ in order to prove/show_______)
• Mrs. Hirzel will check "I Statements" before the end of class
• HW:  Turn "I Statements" into a formal thesis, do research

Thursday 3/21

• Discuss Outlining and Receive Outline Handout
• Teacher will help students with questions on thesis and outlining
• HW: Create sentence outline of main points (include thesis at the top)

Friday 3/22

• Discussion Section 2 of The University of Chicago Writing Guide
• Do Animal Farm Thesis Activity
• HW:  Expand your outline to include your textual evidence & analysis (with MLA in-text citations)  EXAMPLE

Monday 3/25

• Teacher will check Expanded Outlines
• Teachers and students will work together to make expanded outline into paragraph
• HW:  Introductory Paragraph and first point expanded into paragraph form (draft), Come in with 1-3 questions about your paper for private conference

Tuesday & Wednesday 3/26- 3/27

• In-Library
• Teacher will hand back last two papers and students will analyze what they need to improve on for this paper
• Peer Review
• Students will continue drafting process
• Teacher will have conferences with students individually 
• HW:  Animal Farm Draft due Tuesday we return