January 13

I hope you all enjoyed your snow day yesterday.  Today we went over the last part of the essay writing notes.  We also went over the terms on list 8.  The quiz for this will be on Monday.  Finally, I we looked at the poem Lament and discussed the process DIDLS.  Then I asked you to add the following steps:  title, shifts, title, theme.  Consider the title first, paraphrase the poem, finish the rest of the DIDLS, look for a shift in tone or subject, reconsider the title and then decide what the theme is.  Do all this and then write only the INTRODUCTION for an essay on the theme of this poem but not the poem itself.  Use your notes on thesis statements and introductions to produce a strong introduction paragraph.   I also returned a lot of work.  Have a nice long weekend.