Day 3: Sense of Place

What we're up to today!

1. What makes for a successful essay?
2. How do we read an essay (and I'm not talking about top to bottom, left to right)? Come up with 5-7 things you look for when reading an essay. Note: reading an essay is different from reading a piece of literature/fiction.
3. Read
4. After you read, come up with 4 questions pertaining to the essay.
1. 1 question on meaning (thesis, opinion, overall meaning, etc).
2. 1 question on purpose (why?) or audience (to whom?).
3. 1 question on method/structure (style, form, etc).
4. 1 question on language (think tone, diction, literary devices used).
5. Assign homework essays
6. Go over Sense of Place Essay
7. Review ground rules

SAS triangle thing