As Joshua is still developing interpretative thesis writing skills, today's lesson addressed how to formulate and write an AP thesis statement for the essay portion of the exam. Sharing a document, I first provided an example of an interpretative thesis that I drafted regarding a Shakespeare sonnet we had studied. I explained what made the thesis an interpretation rather than a summary and we compared it with the thesis Joshua had drafted last week. Joshua then worked on rewriting his thesis based on the example. We then repeated the exercise with a Robert Frost poem analyzing the function of an extended metaphor vs the function of a simple metaphor. For homework, Joshua will continue practicing on a Frost poem and a Blake poem.