Finding Your Prompt: April 3, 2019

Focus: How do we structure a lengthy, complex essay?

Shortened class due to lengthened Tribe

1. Warming up with modeling a first draft of a prompt

2.  Taking what you're curious about and forming a Q-3 style prompt; for inspiration try scrolling through your Big Question Blogs (and others' blogs, too)

• Are you interested in using your Big Question as the heart of your prompt? If so, how can you personalize it a bit?

• If not, what are you wondering about these days?

3. Looking through past Q3 prompts:

• What do they have in common? 

• How can you refine your prompt to exemplify the Q3 style?

HW:
1. TONIGHT: Send me the draft of your prompt and book list.

2. ONGOING: Start collecting any "artifacts," such as old books, elementary school stuff, photos, poems, etc. that you may wish to use in your culminating essay.