Thesis Statements and Outline Overview

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. LATE WORK CHANGE.  Work is due whether you are here or not.  If you are absent, you must submit the assignment digitally by the due date and time.  If there are extremely exceptional circumstances (you have had the actual flu for a week, you are in the hospital, etc.), please reach out to me to let me know and we will talk.  If you have a cold, wanted to go skiing, had work, or whatever else is causing you to miss my class, tough.

SPAM 2 Email (if you didn't do this yesterday):

1. Step 1:  Read the EXAMPLE letter here.  
2. Step 2:  Read the SPAM 2 Guidelines here.  This is important, as it gives you the date range and focus of the meeting.
3. Step 3:  Write and send the email to your SPA.  Follow up as needed to get your next meeting scheduled.

Thesis Statements and Outline:

1. How to draft a thesis statement (two potential approaches)
2. Key elements of your senior thesis
3. Outline examples

Work Time Goals:

1. Finish your annnotated bibliography.  Make sure it is shared with Lori before class starts on Monday!
2. Draft a working thesis statement that we can critique on Monday

HOMEWORK:

1. Finish your Annotated Bibliography.  Share by SOC on MONDAY!
2. Draft a working thesis statement (it can be crappy!).  This should be a 1-2 sentence answer to your research question.