This document outlines the agenda for an EWRT 1A class. It includes assignments due like Essay #2 and a vocabulary test. There will be a presentation on the concept essay, discussions of sample essays, and in-class writing to choose topics and examples for a concept essay about The Hunger Games. Students will change groups and have a vocabulary game. Homework includes reading more of The Hunger Games, posting writing from class, and finding definitions and examples for concept essay topics.

1. EWRT 1A
Class 8

2. AGENDA
 Due Essay #2
 Change teams
 Activity: Vocabulary Game
 Vocabulary Test #2: (Chapters 5-9)
 Presentation: Essay #3: The Concept Essay
 Discussion: Ngo and Toufexis
 In-Class 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 Game: NEW TEAMS TODAY
• With your new team, discuss the words on the
next slide for five or so minutes and prepare to
compete

4. Vocabulary Words

5. Swathe

6. You have 15 minutes

7. The Concept Essay

8. Ngo: “Cannibalism:
It Still Exists”
Get into your
groups to discuss
this essay and
answer questions.

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

10. Brief Summary and
Concept
Extended Anecdote

11. Extended Anecdote
Thesis and classification

12. Thesis and Classifications
Definitions

13. Definitions
Exemplification

14. 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

15. Ngo has written a
concept essay about
cannibalism
• Use this essay as a model for you
own!

16. Toufexis “ Love: The
Right Chemistry
• Get back into
your groups to
discuss this
essay and
answer
questions.

17. Take 10 Minutes to
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?

18. Summary
Hooking the reader

19. 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

20. 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

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

22. 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:

23. 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
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.

24. 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:

25. In-Class 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..

26. Homework
• Read: HG through chapter 19; SMG 148-163
• Post #8 Finish and post your in-class writing;
• find a definition for your concept. It can be
from a dictionary or an encyclopedia.
• Post #9: Name the two concepts about which
you wrote paragraphs. 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 #9 and SMG to Class
• Study Vocab 10-13