We continued our pre -break lesson conceptualizing the literary essay. In response to Atticus' questions about essay writing I first discussed the purpose of the essay-to make and prove a claim.We discussed how to use the prompt to ascertain the claim and how to transform the claim into a topic sentence. Next, I explained the role of textual evidence to support the claim, In this regard, we examined the role of summarizing . Structurally, I explained the paragraph and the format of a paragraph ,specifically the need to indent the first word of the paragraph as Atticus has had ongoing difficulty in structuring paragraphs. Last, we addressed run-ons and word choice (our vs are) issues that appeared in his draft.