What to do for Tuesday, October 19^th:

• Reading: Nickel and Dimed. Read everything up to page 49. Mark your book for any Yeehaas and mark any comments in the margins. When finished, free-write for 15 minutes or so about your reaction to this essay.

• Your profile: Today you will get your profile and cassette back. Do the usual:
• Write your transcript of the tape (my comments on the left side of the page, yours on the right, and a final 5-minute free-write on the whole thing).
• Write up your boo-boo page.
• Rewrite the profile. For most, this just means making mechanical changes here and there.

• Your essay:
• Have all of your research completed. That means to have facts, quotes, and examples to support each of your subtopics—for example, the Iraq War, the economy, health care—that fall under your main overall thesis.
• Organize these in a kind of outline format.
• Have your citations ready, too. (Go to www.landmark-project.com/citationmachine)

Note: We’ll start writing these essays on Tuesday. The first draft will be due on October 25^th and the final for me on the 27^th.

Now here’s the odd part: I want you to write two essays on the same topic:

1.      Essay #1: The formal 5-paragraph essay with an intro paragraph, a concluding paragraph, and body paragraphs that are stitched together with transition sentences.

2.      Essay #2: A creative essay like the type we’re reading. Tell a story. Grab the reader. Use dialogue and character and similes and wild imagination—and within it you will drop in your ideas and facts and quotes.