This document provides an agenda and materials for an online EWRT 1A class. It includes assignments on writing a concept essay using examples from The Hunger Games. Students are instructed to choose a concept from the novel, define it, and analyze examples. They are given models of concept essays about cannibalism and love to help structure their own essays. The document provides discussion questions and answers about the model essays to help students understand how to analyze concepts. For homework, students are asked to identify concepts for their essay and find definitions and examples from the text.

1. EWRT 1A Class 10 Online
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2. AGENDA
 Due Essay #2
 Presentation: Essay #3: The Concept Essay
 Discussion: Ngo and Toufexis
 Writing: Considering topics for your essay from The
Hunger Games. Make a list of four different
possibilities. Write paragraphs for two of them,
sketching out what you already know about the
concept. Think of at least one example for each from
HG

3. The Concept Essay

4. Ngo: “Cannibalism:
It Still Exists”
Review this essay and
answer the questions
on the next slide.

5. 1. First, briefly summarize the story
2. What is the concept about which Ngo writes?
3. Which extended anecdote does Ngo use to
help explain the concept?
4. What is his thesis?
5. How does he define and classify his
concept? Which are Categories? What are
the Types?
6. Find examples of each of his classified
concepts.

6. • The answers to the previous six
questions follow this slide. Make sure
you understand both the questions
and the answers before you continue.

7. Brief Summary and
Concept
Extended Anecdote

8. Extended Anecdote
Thesis and classification

9. Thesis and Classifications
Definitions

10. Definitions
Exemplification

11. Exemplification
Endocannibalism Exocannibalism
• Survival: Vietnamese
boat refugees
o Ate people as they died on the
boat
• Dietary: Miyanmin (both
types really)
o Eats their own dead and catches
outsiders
• Religious/Ritual: African
tribe of the Bimin-
Kuskusmin
o Eat parts of genitalia to enhance
reproductivity
• Survival: Japanese troops’
supply lines cut
o Sacrificed Arapesh people to feed
troops
• Dietary: Leopard people;
Alligator people
o Hunt victims
• Religious/Ritual:
Bangalas and South
American Tribes
o To honor those held in high-
esteem, they sacrifice slaves and
captives

12. Ngo has written a
concept essay about
cannibalism
• Use this essay as a model for you
own when we begin essay #3!

13. Toufexis “ Love: The
Right Chemistry
• Now review this
essay and
answer the
following
questions.

14. Answer These Questions
• First, summarize the story.
• How does Toufexis “Hook the Reader”?
• How does Toufexis focus her plan?
• How does she create a logical plan?

15. • Again, the answers to the previous
questions follow this slide. Make sure
you understand both the questions and
the answers before you continue.

16. Summary
Hooking the reader

17. Hooking the Reader
• What does Toufexis do to catch Readers’
attention?
o The title—”Love: The Right Chemistry”
o The epigraph quoting Greta Garbo’s line from
the film Ninotchka.
o The conversational tone of the essay
• Using “O.K.” and “Let’s” rather than the
more formal “let us.”
Focusing the Plan

18. Focusing the Plan
What She Does What She Does Not Do
• She focuses on certain
scientific aspects of
romantic love, specifically
the evolutionary biology
and neurochemistry of love
between adult human
heterosexual mates.
• By keeping to her focus, she
is able to present
information that is
unfamiliar, and therefore
interesting, to her readers.
• Because she wants to
emphasize love as a tool to
promote reproduction, she
does NOT include same-sex
love, or nonsexual love
between friends and family
members
• She does NOT discuss
views on love by various
religions or cultures.
A logical plan

19. A Logical Plan
oIntroduction of
topic
oThesis
oForecast
oTransitions
She provides clues for the reader

20. Introduction of Concept: Paragraph 1: She announces that she is writing
about “romantic love,” a concept that she will address with “scientific
precision.”
Thesis: Paragraph 2: What seems on the surface to be irrational, intoxicated
behavior is in fact part of nature’s master strategy—a vital force that has
helped humans survive, thrive, and multiply through thousands of years”
Forecast: In paragraph two: “Love rests firmly on the foundations of
evolution, biology, and chemistry.”
Toufexis also uses transitions to let the readers know when she is leaving one
topic and going to another: here is the transition from biology to
neurochemistry:

21. The Concept
Essay
• Topic: Write an essay
about a concept from The
Hunger Games that
interests you and that you
want to study further.
When you have a good
understanding of the
concept you have chosen,
explain it to your readers,
considering carefully
what they might already
know about it and how
your essay might add to
what they know.
Essay #3: See syllabus for
due date.
3-5 pages
150 points possible
MLA-style formatting and
citations
Works Cited page must
include three entries: The
Hunger Games, A
Dictionary or other defining
source, and a book or
article from a credible
source.

22. Hunger, Cold, Friendship, Safety,
Justice, Fair play, Class, Game, Play,
Power, Identity, Strength,
Competition, Sacrifice, Spectacle,
Schadenfreude (happiness derived
from others’ misfortunes), Fear,
Privilege, Equality, Legal, Skill,
Topics to Consider:

23. Writing:
• Consider topics for your essay
from The Hunger Games.
o Make a list of four different possibilities.
o Write paragraphs for two of them,
sketching out what you already know
about the concept..

24. Homework
• Read: HG through chapter 19; SMG 148-163
• Post #10 Finish and post your in-class writing:
slides 5 and 15
• Post #11:
1. Name the two concepts about which you wrote
paragraphs.
2. Find a definition for your concept. It can be from a
dictionary or an encyclopedia.
3. Find a few lines from The Hunger Games that
illustrate each concept. Copy them into your post,
and then explain how the example demonstrates,
defines, or embodies the concept. (Include page
numbers)
• Bring: Post # 11 and SMG to Class