Due: Poetry Log, Quote Log
If you were absent today, we colour-coded the quote log and created our thesis statements and introductions. We also read at least 15 pages of our USSR books and everyone has picked two books to take home to read over the holidays.
Tomorrow: We will all be handwriting the essay. You may use your quote log, your novel, and your notebooks to find the best quotations to use. You may arrive with your introduction completed.
I'm looking for insightful thesis statements.
Don't simply say: The demise of the utopian vision of Old Major is caused by Napoleon's insolent drive to power.
HMMM . . . .
There is more to it than that. How did he rise to power? What role did the animals play in letting him rise to power?
If you can create your thesis without reading the novel, it is NOT a thesis, right?
Good luck.
