To Kill a Mockingbird Revised Thesis

Post your revised thesis (even if you received credit for it) and topic sentences.

Example:
Thesis: In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee argues not only that one should "love one's neighbor as one loves oneself," but that all humans are each others' neighbors.
TS 1: The literal neighbors in the Finch neighborhood treat each other with courtesy.
TS 2: Scout and Jem adopt Walter Cunningham as a neighbor.
TS 3: Calpurnia, Tom Robinson, and the entire black community of Maycomb are also neighbors of the Finches.

Thesis for To Kill a Mockingbird

Come up with a thesis for To Kill a Mockingbird. This time you will actually be writing an essay based on the thesis. Please put the thesis in TPS form and make sure that it is clear, focused, arguable, analytical, and creative.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me: Analysis Question

Ask a question that analyses whether or not Hurston is racist.
Example: Is the passage about Hurston being transported to the jungle racist?

How It Feels to Be Colored Me: Evaluation Question

Come up with questions that evaluate the validity of Hurston's views.
Example: Do you agree with Hurston that the effects of slavery are negligible? Why or not not?

How It Feels to Be Colored Me: Creation Question

Assume that equal representation is a goal (i.e. if a race/ethnicity makes up a certain proportion of a state's population, that race/ethnicity should make up the same proportion in the state's universities and workplaces. If a state is 37% black, such as Mississippi, then 37% of the states' university student population should be black).

Come up with questions about how to create such equal representation.
Example: Is affirmative action necessary to achieve equal representation?

Thesis for "Life on the Mississippi"

Post a thesis for "Life on the Mississippi." Please make sure you have a topic, position, and statement. Your thesis should be clear, focused, arguable, analytic, and creative.