Class Agenda 3.11

1. Reading Quiz

2. Announcements
Blog due reminder
Tweets due reminder

3. Review of essay assignment number 1.

4. Review of claim, evidence, and paraphrase.

5. Brief textual tour via professor around theme of "labor" and New World slavery.

6. On their own:

Students identify the "major" claim (the main argument) of the text. They locate a passage from the text that contains this claim.

Exchange that passage with another student. Is it the major claim of the text? A brief discussion with the class.

7. Summary. Discuss and define summary.

On their own: students collect what they believe to the major claims of the text. They will assemble these claims in one paragraph, in their own words, that we'll call a summary of the text.

Together: they will exchange this paragraph with their partner from earlier in the class. They will observe and note their techniques.

8. Looking ahead: topic sentences, direct quotes, citations, and critical thinking.

9. Wind down: what are the major claims of this text? What are the major problems or biases with this text?