Ashley's Announcements for Skiers and Boarders:
1.  Lunch meeting about backcountry fun times and AV1 course in Ashley's room.
2.  Ski tune with Heerschap after school tomorrow. (Wednesday)

Starter #4:  Write your claim out.  Below it, free-write on your interpretation.  Why did you arrive at the claim?  What evidence in the text could support your claim?

Model Literary Analysis Activity
Read through the essay with critical attention to the structure, content, and conventions of literary analysis.
1.  Identify the thesis and mark in with TS in the margin.
2.  Underline each topic sentence.
3.  Mark places where the author uses textual evidence in the margins with E.  Circle parenthetical citations, noting how they are set up.
4.  Using the Literary Analysis Rubric in the packet, ask the questions of the essay.  Does the essay meet all of the criteria for this type of essay?
5.  At the bottom of the essay, write one paragraph explaining how this activity has helped give you direction for your own literary analysis.

Plan your literary analysis!
1.  Using the Writing a Literary Analysis Essay guidelines and the outline in the Literary Analysis Planning Guide (or another template), outline the content of your essay.  It will be difficult to fit your ideas and evidence into the space allowed, so feel free to type it or write it out on a separate sheet.  Just be sure to follow the guidelines.  It's okay to add more evidence and analysis than the outline gives space for!
2. Be sure that you find textual evidence to support your claim.  You will want to use some direct quotes from the book, but paraphrased events and information count as evidence too.  Be sure that you understand how to set them up with parenthetical citations.  If you aren't clear, get clarification from me today.  There is an example on the back side of the Writing a Literary Analysis handout.
3. If you are confused about this assignment in any way, have a conference with me today.
4.  Bring your outline tomorrow to write your essay during class.  You will be able to use this entire packet and the book during the writing of your essay.

HOMEWORK?
Come to class prepared to write your Literary Analysis tomorrow!