Thesis Heuristic (“Leaving Home”)

Description

Today’s video sets your students up to do three things very well:

1. Practice crafting an introductory paragraph for literary analysis

2. Accurately ascertain a text’s meaning and the author’s intent

3. Crush the thesis point

For those of you who are familiar with my work, you know that I love to use short videos in my instructional practices.

And I also embrace the use of heuristics over templates.

Well, short films are a great way to practice hammerin’ the thesis point!

Joost Lieuwma’s film “Leaving Home” is rife with possibilities.

In the video, I take my usual “Bob Ross” approach and “paint” a number of introductions while demonstrating how to pull the strings of my inverted thesis heuristic.

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