TFA Interpretive Essay: Getting Started and Timetable for Completion

Write a draft introductory paragraph and a body paragraph for your Things Fall Apart Interpretive Essay.

• Your thesis should appear as the last sentence of your first paragraph.  
• The lead sentences of your first paragraph should introduce your topic in a general way.
• The next few sentences should gradually narrow toward the thesis.
• Your first body paragraph should consist of:
• a topic sentence that includes key words from your thesis.
• one or more quotes 
• specific detail as evidence
• analysis of the quotes and evidence
• transitions that help link the above

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During Class:  Open the Google Classroom TFA Essay Template.  Personalize the header information and remove the works cited section at the end.  Paste in what you have written so  far.  Then continue drafting your essay.

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Things Fall Apart  Interpretive Essay Timetable

--prior to Wednesday:  read and collect quotes

--Thursday

• Create outline
• Revise working thesis (if needed)
• Check, reflect on, and revise first 2 paragraphs
• Draft additional body paragraphs 2, 3, 4

--Friday

• Draft additional body paragraphs (if needed)
• Write closing paragraph
• Self-evaluation

--Monday

• Revise essay
• Peer conferences
• Further revisions & teacher conferences

--Tuesday, Sept. 25

• Outside of class teacher conferences as needed.

--Thursday, Sept. 26 -- TFA Interpretive Essay Due

• quotes/double-entry journal
• rough draft including evidence of peer conference
• final draft