This document outlines the agenda and assignment for Essay #4 in an EWRT 1A class. Students are tasked with writing a 4-6 page essay proposing a solution to a problem faced by a community. They have been researching problems and potential solutions. The class will focus on refining their identified problem, exploring possible solutions, and choosing the most promising one to focus on. Students are provided guidance on developing their solution, explaining how and why it would address the problem and could be implemented. They are assigned homework of revising their problem description and developing paragraphs on their tentative thesis, why the solution would work, why it is possible, and steps for implementation.

1. EWRT 1ACLASS 18:

2. Agenda
Essay #4
Review
The assignment
Brainstorming
Research
In-Class Writing: Refining your
problem and finding the best
solution.

3. Essay #4

4. Essay #4: Proposing a
Solution
Essay #4 Assignment: (200 points) Write an essay from 4-6
pages in length, that addresses the topic below. Use a
minimum of two credible secondary sources to support your
argument. These are in addition to The Hunger Games.
Prompt : Write an essay proposing a solution to a well-defined
problem faced by a community or group to which you may
belong. Alternatively, you may address a well-defined
problem faced by one of the districts or communities in The
Hunger Games. Address your proposal to your audience: one
or more members of the group, its leadership, or to outsiders
who may be able to contribute to solving the problem.

5. Your Research
 You should have multiple articles that you
researched in our last class.
 You should have a formatted works cited page.
 Read or review your research articles to help you
decide on your topic. Keep it local!
 Begin your essay document. Format your essay.
Add your works cited page to your document.

6. Check your prewriting:
You should have at least four
paragraphs written for two
different problems
Look at what you have; Focus on the
problem/solution pair that seemed the most
interesting to explore.
Write another paragraph describing the problem in
more detail.
Be as specific and vivid in your explanation as
possible given the information you currently have.

7.  It usually helps to consider several possible
solutions before focusing on one solution;
problem solving requires creativity. Answer the
following questions to help you make a list of
creative solutions you could consider for your
problem:
 Can you adapt a solution that has already been tried
or proposed for related problems? Which? How?
 What smaller, more manageable aspect of the larger
problem could you solve? How might you do so?
 Could re-imagining the goal help you make
fundamental changes?
 Could the problem be solved from the bottom up
instead of from the top down?
 Could an ongoing process help solve the problem?
Listing Multiple Possible
Solutions to your Problem

8. Exploring Potential Solutions
Now, take the answers to those
questions and write paragraphs
addressing one or more potential
solutions to your problem.

9. Choosing the Most
Promising Solution
In a sentence or two, describe the
solution you want to explore further.
You should choose a solution that you
feel motivated to pursue. This will be
your working thesis!

10. Explain Why Your Solution
Would Solve the Problem.
Write for a few minutes explaining why
you think this solution could solve the
problem. For example, would it
 eliminate one or more causes?
 change people’s attitudes?
 re-imagine the objective?
 reduce anxiety and tension?

11. Show Why Your Solution Is
Possible.
 Write for a few minutes
explaining why people could
agree to put the solution into
effect. For example, what would
it cost them in time or money?

12. Explain How It Could Be
Implemented.
 Write down the major stages
or steps necessary to carry out
your solution. This list of steps
will provide an early test of
whether your solution can, in
fact, be implemented.

13.  Post #23:
1. Your revised and developed description of your problem: two to four
good paragraphs.
2. One or more sentences to serve as your tentative thesis statement. In
most essays proposing solutions to problems, the thesis statement is a
concise announcement of the solution..
3. A paragraph explaining why your solution would solve the problem.
4. A paragraph about why your solution is possible.
5. A list of the steps of implementation.
 Bring SMG and a copy of your essay draft.
Homework