Happy Easter, everyone!  For those of you who have agreed to keep working on the research essay, I hope you were able to find/recover enough research to write a shorter essay.  Once you have that, the next step is to figure out exactly what you are proving.....develop your thesis statement.  This is the one sentence that reveals to the reader exactly what you will be proving by reading this essay.  That is what we will use this week for - narrowing down the thesis to a tight and functional statement.  Below, I will post a couple of links to the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University, to help you figure out your focus.  Once you have a focus, it is easy to fit your research into a cohesive essay. 

If you are not on "Teams," could you please email your thesis statement to me this week, then start organizing your research in the most effective way to prove your thesis.

For those who proposed to do the book study first, that is certainly possible - I am still working on that; stay tuned!

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_process/thesis_statement_tips.html

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/establishing_arguments/index.html