Homework for Wednesday, 11/12 (Day 2), and Thursday, 11/13 (Day 3)

Write a transitional paragraph that connects the two sections of the paper on Antigone and the story from Uncle Tom's Children. You should continue to work on your thesis, and do anything else you can to improve the essay (find evidence for the Uncle Tom's Children story, make sure that you have interpreted or analyzed your evidence, make sure that each paragraph has a topic sentence that interprets some aspect of the story, and so on). Print two copies of the essay, and either e-mail it to yourself or put it on a flashdrive. This is the last class that you will have to work on the essay; you are off Tuesday and Friday, and the essay is due Monday, Nov. 17 (Day 4), and Tuesday, Nov. 18 (Day 5).

You are bringing two copies to class because with one copy, you will peer-edit your essays on Wednesday and Thursday; the other copy will be for me to compare to your final essay. You need to e-mail it to yourself or bring it on a flashdrive because you will continue to work on it in class. 

On transition essays consider the following from Floyd Watkins, et al., Practical English Handbook, 11th edition:

A transitional paragraph usually occurs in longer essays to indicate that the author has finished discussing one major point and is now moving to another. Transitional paragraphs can be relatively brief as the following example illustrates:

The women of some ancient tribes exercise a great deal of control in the family unit even though they have little political power in the tribe as a whole. The men, on the other hand, may rule the tribe but lack power in the domestic aspects of life. (PEH, p. 61) 

In the preceding paragraph, it should be clear that the first sentence refers to some aspect of the earlier part of the essay, and the second sentence refers to the remainder of the essay. The first sentence summarizes what has already been analyzed, and the second sentence anticipates what is to follow this transition.