Submit missing first drafts to turnitin.com!

TODAY IN CLASS
Peer Response to the Hamlet essay.
Many essays were very complete--all parts accounted for, and properly formatted (or with quite fixable mistakes).  Good job to all of you!
Some were complete except for the Works Cited; not a big deal today, and we can talk about that briefly tomorrow.
All of these papers will count as "complete" and will get full credit as a draft.

Now, other papers were NOT complete--
You were allowed to participate in the peer response with the working thesis and body paragraphs (not a full intro and no conclusion), but not for full credit.
A few people were allowed to participate with what really amounted to a mere outline (I figured some feed back was better than none. . . ) but credit here is more substantially reduced.

Note that submission to turnitin.com is REQUIRED for the first draft (see yesterday's post; see the full essay directions). I will record the appropriate credit only for papers that are submitted to turnitin.com; e-mailing the paper to me does NOT serve the same purpose.  It must be on turnitin.com. 

FOR TOMORROW
Be working on revisions.  Obviously in many cases, this means flat-out writing more.  Refer again to all of the guidelines/expectations for this essay.  If you've lost your assignment sheet, it's on the post from Saturday, March 30.

But many people had difficulties with the body thesis (topic sentence) for the body paragraphs.
These sentences serve a two-fold function:  1) they point back to an idea introduced (but not fully explained) in the main thesis, AND 2) they serve as an "umbrella" that covers the development (concrete evidence plus commentary) that will take place in that particular paragraph.  Judge your own work here; your reader might not be the best guide to weak topic sentences.

Hard to say where you all are with MLA formatting--a few papers looked excellent, but some otherwise complete-looking papers had significant rookie mistakes here.  Maybe you just hadn't done that yet. You're seniors, and you have a set of guidelines.  And you can look up the Purdue OWL:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
And you've been taught this before.  .  .

Final Draft due:
Friday, April 4 (Revised hard copy; today's first draft; peer response from today)
Also submitted to turnitin.com by the end of the school day on Friday (3:00 p.m.)

Explanation for the 3:00 p.m. deadline--read only if you are wondering why that particular time
You should of course simply submit it Thursday evening, as soon as you are done.  BUT . . .some people do not have internet access at home, and I want you to be able to submit on Friday so you don't have to have it done by the end of the school day on Thursday.