We are working on an essay analyzing how character informs a theme of the novel. Today ,we addressed my comments to the body of Joshua's draft emphasizing the need to elaborate and to provide specific evidence to support generalizations. I provided modeling and instruction sentence by sentence with reference to my comments and further demonstrated how to organize a characterization contrast around a theme. We first addressed the physical attributes of the protagonist and the antagonist and noting the divergence of reality and appearance drafted commentary on this theme of deceit. Next, I provided editing comments on word choice . I further discussed how to draw a broader conclusion from this theme for use in the conclusion. Joshua will finish the essay for homework based on class discussion.