What You've Been Waiting For

After the past 7 weeks of allusions, tone work, close reading passages, argumentation features, and exemplification through multiple subjects, it's time to put all of that together into essay writing! Today's class was dedicated to setting up an abstract noun or, what I like to call it, a "philosophical" argumentation. To put everything into place, you filled out a box prompt, i.e. all the components of an argument, to set up your essay work. With this pre-writing in your folder, your job is to now complete a take-home prompt, which is due by Thursday at 2:40 p.m. You are on the honor system with this prompt: it is to be handwritten, timed in a 40-50 minute session, you may use your box prompt (however, if you want to change anything on the box prompt, you  must do so prior to timing yourself with the essay), you are allowed to use a dictionary, but you may not use a thesaurus, a friend, or searches while you are in the timing portion. Do remember that this is a timed prompt, so you may have to sacrifice your counterclaim example for the greater good - the rebuttal with a strong ending example. As with any take-home prompt, if you are absent all day, you will take a lovely picture of your prompt and send it to me. If absent, you can wait until tomorrow for the prompt and box prompt for this essay. Or, you can check your e-mail (later today) for the main part of the prompt and the box prompt so that you can start the process.