2. AGENDA
• Due: Essay #2
• Discussion: Ngo and Toufexis
Ngo: focused concept: definitions; classifications
Toufexis: Hooking the reader.
Toufexis: A focused concept, logical plan 145-48
• Presentation: Essay #3: The Concept Essay
• In-Class Writing: Consider topics for your essay from The
Hunger Games. Make a list of four different possibilities.
Write paragraphs for two of them, sketching out what
you already know about the concept. Think of at least
one example for each from HG.
5. Ngo: “Cannibalism:
It Still Exists”
Get into groups of
three or four to
discuss this essay
and answer
questions.
6. Take 10 minutes to
discuss the following
among yourselves.
• First, briefly summarize the story
• What is the concept about which Ngo writes?
• Which extended anecdote does Ngo use to help explain the
concept to his readers?
• What is his thesis?
• How does he classify his concept?
• Categories?
• Types?
• How does he define his concept?
• Find examples of each his classified concepts.
11. Exemplification
Endocannibalism Exocannibalism
• Survival: Vietnamese • Survival: Japanese troops’
boat refugees supply lines cut
o Ate people as they died on the o Sacrificed Arapesh people to feed
boat troops
• Dietary: Miyanmin (both • Dietary: Leopard people;
types really) Alligator people
o Eats their own dead and catches o Hunt victims
outsiders
• Religious/Ritual:
• Religious/Ritual: African Bangalas and South
tribe of the Bimin- American Tribes
Kuskusmin o To honor those held in high-
o Eat parts of genitalia to enhance esteem, they sacrifice slaves and
reproductivity captives
12. Toufexis “ Love: The
Right Chemistry
• Get back into
your groups to
discuss this
essay and
answer
questions.
13. Take 10 Minutes to
Answer These Questions
• First, summarize the story.
• How does Toufexis “Hook the Reader”?
• How does Toufexis focus her plan?
• How does she create a logical plan?
15. Hooking the Reader
• What does Toufexis do to catch Readers’
attention?
o The title—”Love: The Right Chemistry”
o The epigraph quoting Greta Garbo’s line from
the film Ninotchka.
o The conversational tone of the essay
• Using “O.K.” and “Let’s” rather than the
more formal “let us.”
Focusing the Plan
16. Focusing the Plan
What She Does What She Does Not
• She focuses on certain • Because she wants to
scientific aspects of emphasize love as a tool
romantic love, specifically to promote reproduction,
the evolutionary biology she does NOT include
and neurochemistry of love
same-sex love, or
between adult human
nonsexual love between
heterosexual mates.
friends and family
• By keeping to her focus, she
members
is able to present
information that is • She does NOT discuss
unfamiliar, and therefore views on love by various
interesting, to her readers. religions or cultures.
A logical plan
17. A Logical Plan
She provides clues for the reader
o Introduction of topic o Transitions
o Thesis
IntroductionForecast
o of Concept: Paragraph 1: She announces that she is writing about “romantic
love,” a concept that she will address with “scientific precision.”
Thesis: Paragraph 2: What seems on the surface to be irrational, intoxicated behavior is in fact
part of nature’s master strategy—a vital force that has helped humans survive, thrive, and
multiply through thousands of years”
Forecast: In paragraph two: “Love rests firmly on the foundations of evolution, biology, and
chemistry.”
Toufexis also uses transitions to let the readers know when she is leaving one topic and going
to another: here is the transition from biology to neurochemistry:
18. • Topic: Write an essay
about a concept from The The Concept
Hunger Games that Essay
interests you and that you Essay #3
want to study further. 750-1200 words
When you have a good 150 points possible
understanding of the MLA-style formatting and
concept you have chosen, citations
explain it to your readers, Works Cited page must
include three entries: The
considering carefully Hunger Games, A
what they might already Dictionary or other
know about it and how defining source, and a
your essay might add to book or article from a
what they know. credible source.
20. In-Class Writing:
• Consider topics for your essay
from The Hunger Games.
o Make a list of four different possibilities.
o Write paragraphs for two of them,
sketching out what you already know
about the concept..
21. Homework
• Read: HG through chapter 19; SMG 148-163
• Write:
o Finish and post your in-class writing
o find two different definitions for your concept. One can be from a
dictionary.
• Journal #8: Name the two concepts about which
you wrote paragraphs. Find a few lines from The
Hunger Games that illustrates each concept. Copy
it into your post, and then explain how the example
demonstrates, defines, or embodies the concept.
• Study: Vocab (10-18)
• Bring: SMG to Class
