So, all week you have been participating in Writing Workshops to complete the first full draft of your Hamlet essay. We have had mini-lessons over what should be included in your introductions, how your body paragraphs need to be developed, and finally on what your conclusion paragraph should accomplish. Today your entire class time should be devoted to doing a proofreading activity and submitting your essay through Turnitin.

Normally, you think of proofreading as the next to last step in the writing process and you look for errors in your writing. Errors such as grammar issues, punctuation, or spelling. That is not what we are proofreading for today. Today you need to look at the structure of your essay. There are four areas that you need to check (or proofread) prior to turning your essay in by the end of class today.

1. Have you addressed the prompt, in this case, the purpose of the essay?
   1. Have you explained how using the film adaptation of Hamlet either reinforced or contradicted your original fever chart thesis?
2. Is your introduction complete?
   1. Have you used Catchy language ( Hook) to begin your essay?
   2. Have you listed the name and author of both the play and the movie being discussed?
   3. Have you clearly made a declarative statement about how viewing the film either supported or changed your original thesis?
3. Is the body of your essay written in well-developed paragraphs?
   1. Does each paragraph deal with only one topic or specific supporting detail?
   2. Do you have a topic sentence, which supports your claim? to begin each body paragraph?
   3. Does each sentence support those main points with examples, explanations,(this is where quotes go!)?
   4. Have you explained how the point and evidence relate to your thesis?
   5. Is each paragraph developed to provide enough content for my essay?
4. Is your conclusion complete?
   1. Does this final paragraph include:
      1. a look back on the purpose of the essay
      2. an allusion to the pattern used in the introductory paragraph,- a restatement of key points
      3. a restatement of the thesis statement, using some of the original language or language that “echoes” the original language. (The restatement, however, must not be a duplicate thesis statement.)
      4. a summary of the three to five main points from the body of the paper.
      5. a final statement that gives the reader signals that the discussion has come to an end (This final statement may be a “call to action” or “so what” statement in a persuasive paper.)

This is the exact criteria that I will be using to score your draft. I will add additional comments to your Turnitin file that will be helpful in your revision process, but your draft grade will only be concerned with these specific elements as they are what we have covered and work on in class each day this week.

Writing Workshop weeks are my favorite weeks of the year. I am excited to read your work and help you grow as writers. After you have assured that all these items are contained in your draft, please submit it through Turnitin for grading. Have a great weekend.

One last note, remember that if you missed school this week and do not turn your essay in by the end of class today,  you risk the possibility of me not getting my comments completed prior to the Peer Review process on Wednesday of next week.