This document provides an agenda for Class 19 of an English writing course. It includes assignments due, a vocabulary practice activity involving team competition, and a discussion of the essay "Cannibalism: It Still Exists" by Ngo. Students are instructed to choose a concept from The Hunger Games to analyze in their own concept essay. They are to write an introductory paragraph on their chosen concept and find two definitions to post online by the next class.

1. Class 19
EWRT 1A

2. Essay #2: Pass it in!

3. AGENDA
 Due: Essay #2 and we start
anew!
 Vocabulary practice
 Discussion: Ngo
 Ngo: focused concept: definitions;
classifications
 Writing, if time permits!

4. The Game
 Discuss the words on the next slide for three minutes
and prepare to compete
 Each team will send one member to the board in
rotation. Everybody must take a turn in rotation.
 I will read a definition. The first team member to write
the correct definition on the board scores a point for their
team.
 Teams earn participation points for each correct answer
 Today we will carry points forward to the discussion
portion of class. The team with the highest score at the
end of the class earns not only the glory of winning but
also five additional participation points.

8. Ngo: “Cannibalism:
It Still Exists”
Discuss this essay
with your table
mates (5-7 minutes)
and answer the
following 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 classify his concept?
Categories? 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 • Survival: Japanese troops’
boat refugees supply lines cut
o Ate people as they died on the o Sacrificed Arapesh people to feed
boat troops
• Dietary: Miyanmin (both • Dietary: Leopard people;
types really) Alligator people
o Eats their own dead and catches o Hunt victims
outsiders
• Religious/Ritual:
• Religious/Ritual: African Bangalas and South
tribe of the Bimin- American Tribes
Kuskusmin o To honor those held in high-
o Eat parts of genitalia to enhance esteem, they sacrifice slaves and
reproductivity captives

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

16. • Topic: Write an essay
about a concept from The The Concept
Hunger Games that Essay
interests you and that you Essay #3
want to study further. 750-1200 words
When you have a good 125 points possible
understanding of the MLA-style formatting and
concept you have chosen, citations
explain it to your readers, Works Cited page must
include three entries: The
considering carefully Hunger Games, A
what they might already Dictionary or other
know about it and how defining source, and a
your essay might add to book or article from a
what they know. credible source.

17. Writing:
Consider topics from The Hunger
Games for your essay.
Choose two different possibilities to
consider.

18. 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: Choose Two

19. Write a paragraph for that
concept, sketching out what you
already know!

20.  Read: HG
through chapter
17
 Study: Vocab
(10-18)
Post # 21 coopcatalyst.wordpress.com
Finish and post your concept paragraph
find two different definitions for your concept. One
can be from a dictionary.
Your distance course will focus on other
concept essays!