Good morning writers Today is Tuesday February 5

Good morning, writers! Today is Tuesday, February 5, 2019 It is a Day 4. Ø Copy the homework in your agenda. Ø Finish first body paragraph ØToday, you will need: Øa pencil ØWriting Folder ØHW: Leads/Hooks

The Literary Essay Session 10: Body Paragraphs

I can… …use an essay outline and mentor text in order to craft the body paragraphs of a thematic essay.

v. Yesterday, we began writing our introductions. We learned that you Connectio should… n v Lead with a universal statement about life. v. Then transition to the text-based claim itself, by narrowing the focus to the particular story you are writing about.

…the body paragraphs in a Teachin g Point theme essay can be structured sequentially, so that the reader can better understand the changes the protagonist experiences that lead to the lesson learned, and ultimately, to theme.

(Needs a hook) In “Popularity, ” by Adam Bagdasarian, the protagonist, a lonely ten-year-old boy named Will, who is determined to become popular, learns that popularity is worthless if you can’t trust the people who call themselves your friends. In the beginning of “Popularity, ” Will believes that in order to be happy, he has to be popular.

Bagdasarian, the protagonist, a lonely ten-year-old boy named Will, who is determined to become popular, learns that popularity is worthless if you can’t trust the people who call themselves your friends. “Popularit y” Essay In the beginning of "Popularity, " Will believes that in order to be happy, he has to be popular. In fact, he even spends every recess "circling oak trees in search of four-leaf clovers" just so that he can "close his eyes, and wish he was so popular. " He always acts like his life would be perfect if he could just have as many friends as the "leader" of the popular group, Sean Owens, a boy who is deemed "the humblest, handsomest, strongest, fastest, most clear-thinking ten -year-old" at Will's school. In turn, this makes Will crave popularity; he not only wanted to be popular, he "needed to be popular. " This shows how naive Will is at this time in the story. Clearly, he thinks that the world is just really black and white. He truly believes that if you're popular, you're happy, and if you're not, you're sad. As if there is no you without a bunch of

The Second Body Paragraph Your Task: Using the Essay Outline, draft the second body paragraph in your notebook. Remember to include: ØTopic sentence that introduces the main idea. ØText evidence that is different than the evidence already presented in the first body paragraph. Weave the evidence with your own words to story tell the scenes. ØExplanation of how the evidence supports the claim. Be elaborate. ØTransitional phrases to connect ideas.

The Second Body Paragraph As the story progresses, the reader begins to realize that Will is becoming aware of how he can finally make himself happy and gain popularity. He starts to notice that popularity is more of a "devolved monarchy, " than a "happy democracy. " He says the playground is full of "kings and queens, dukes and duchesses, lords and ladies, " where Will and the two Allans are "stable boys. ” At this point in the text, Will says that "for three days, " instead of just picking four-leaf clovers, he "stood, unnoticed, just outside the outer circle, waiting for my moment, for the one joke or wisecrack that would make me popular. " These examples prove that even though Will is clearly an outsider, he is becoming aware of how popularity works. Furthermore, he now understands that the sole way to breach the gap and become popular is by taking the place of someone who already is popular. At this point in the story, the reader and Will see that

The Third Body Paragraph Using the Essay Outline, draft the third body paragraph in your notebook. Remember to include: ØTopic sentence that introduces the main idea. ØText evidence that is different than the evidence already presented in the first two body paragraphs. Weave the evidence with your own words to story tell the scenes. ØStory-tell: recreate or retell the end of the story. ØWhat happens at the end of the story? ØThen, discuss what Will learns at the end. ØExplanation of how the evidence supports the claim. Be elaborate.