After working on e-mails, summaries, and descriptive work, we are graduating to full blown essay writing for the remainder of the course. First up is the mighty introduction, a paragraph with a great deal of responsibility on its shoulders. An introduction requires a hook to engage the audience, to set your essay apart from other writings, and to exhibit your writing prowess. Once the hook is in place, you need a transitional element -- phrase, sentence, multiple sentences -- to set up the ending better known as a thesis statement. A thesis may be a map (look - here are my three body paragraph topics in order) or an overall statement that will be clarified throughout the essay. At the end of class, you began the process of composing an introduction for a family-based essay.
Other items of note were copying down the next 10 vocabulary words, which we will start tomorrow, and completing our grammar prep. We will start rules and practices tomorrow -- with nouns.
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