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Book room for copies of //The Odyssey//. If you missed class, check-out your copy in the library or book room. We aren't going to start reading it for about a week, but I want everyone to have a copy ready for when we are.

Peer-edit: Introductory Paragraph and Topic Sentence

Model: Thesis--->Topic Sentences--->Quote selection--->Analysis
 * Thesis:** Wiesel utilizes the motif of eyes and tears to reveal his central idea that, when people continually experience and witness human suffering, they must become desensitized to the suffering and horror in order to emotionally survive.


 * Paragraph 1:** Early in the text, Wiesel establishes the motif of eyes and tears in order to show the Jewish people’s initial emotional reactions to concentration, and how such reactions quickly become detrimental to survival in the camps.


 * Paragraph 2:** Wiesel’s use of eyes and tears as indicators of emotional detachment becomes more pronounced the longer Elie is in the camp, revealing that the longer he survives camp life, the less he is able to emotionally react to the suffering he witnesses.

“I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears”
 * Quotes:**

“In everyone’s eyes was suffering drowned in tears.

“Our eyes closed, we waited, merely for the next stop, so that we could unload our dead”

“But others were crying. They used all their remaining strength in weeping”

“My father had just been struck, before my very eyes, and I had not flickered and eyelid. I had looked on and said nothing”

Which one is best for P.1?

Which one is best for P.2?

Library to sign up for turnitin.com: see information for completing this in a link above. You will be responsible for submitting your final essay to turnitin.com before I'll grade it.

Work time

HW: Come Monday with your intro, and at least one body paragraph complete. A full rough draft will be due on Thursday/Friday and your final draft is DUE on Monday 3/1.