As Yanuell read the novel "Crash" in Language Arts, we are writing a compare/contrast essay based on two very different characters in the novel, a bully and a pacifist. Today, Yannuel composed a rough draft of the paragraph describing the bully , Crash Coogan. We worked on forming a topic sentence with a clear descriptive adjective ,and then we discussed specific examples from the novel illustrating Crash's violent disposition. We then began a rough draft using these specific examples to support the topic sentence stating that Crash Coogan was unkind and violent. Yanuell did a good job looking through the novel to locate concrete evidence for his topic sentence and worked on incorporating these examples into the draft.We then worked on transition phrases to introduce the contrasting character ,such as, "Unlike Crash.... or In contrast to Crash " after which Yanuell drafted his next topic sentence. We will continue working on a rough draft on Thursday to be followed by rewrites and revisions.