Friday, October 25th

By the end of class today.. Have the following completed:

• Read and thoroughly noted all OSG's letters. 
• Have selected a specific issue that OSG addresses in his letters (Family, education, technology, organized religion, Islam, father-son relationships, etc.). This is a broad general thematic issue.
• Found a minimum of two quotes from OSG in his 4 letters that addresses this issue. Keep track of the page number for citation. 
• Have a preliminary thesis or topic sentence that demonstrates the POV of Ghobash on this issue. What is going to be his angle? Stance on this topic? This POV needs to be faithful to the evidence that Ghobash has demonstrated in HIS writing. This is NOT your stance. 

Thesis statement help: For this paper, we will be using a simple formula. 

A thesis is basically an answer to an intellectual question. Ask a good question... structure your answer as your thesis. 

Formula:  Although (insert counter argument to stance),  (Subject) + (Opinion).

** Suggestion... I would write the second part of the sentence first.. .then do the "although" counterclaim part.

EXAMPLE:

Question: How does Ghobash feel about the impact of technology in the modern world? 

Example: Although technology has the ability to unite the different groups of people, technology, specifically social media, has detrimentally become a tool to purposefully divide. 

Counterclaim
Subject
Attitude or opinioni

To make sure that we are on the right track, please post your ISSUE and prelim thesis on Schoology. 

Friday is so close to. . . CATURDAY!!