Today and during the next few sessions, we will be writing an essay on "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ." I distributed a prompt based on the quote about evil (wrongly) attributed to Edmund Burke .We then reviewed the elements of the essay - introduction , textual support, and conclusion. After discussing the essay subject, Atticus began an essay outline identifying the textual support for his thesis . We explored which characters "see nothing" and which characters "do nothing" and why these actions or inactions support the essay thesis.