For Tue. Oct.24th a thesis statement is due. Please review Thesis Statements on Pages 34-35 in your blue Academic Writing Students' Booklet. Choose one of the styles and write your one to three sentence statement. Use a word processor and hand it in next class. Please spend some time with this. It will be the most crucial sentence you write for the course.

On Tuesday, November 7th at 3rd period (Room to be announced) we will be hosting a distinguished visiting lecturer, the best-selling author of children's books, Lynne Reid Banks. The most famous of her works is the classic _The Indian in the Cupboard_, which has sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a feature film in 1995. According to her official bio at "She was born in London in 1929 and was an actress in the early 1950’s; later she became one of the first women TV news reporters in Britain. She has written forty books – her first, _The L-Shaped Room_, was published in 1960." [Of course, Night School students are welcome to attend the lecture if they're free at the time and don't mind making the journey to the Sagamihara Campus. Some of the students in Nibu have never been to the Sagamihara Campus and might like an excuse to visit.]

What's Happening

Next weeks class will be given by people from the Library on how best to use their resources for your research. I'm reading and commenting on your first thoughts about a subject for your paper. We will review them in the following class as well as continue with Internet Detective. A reminder that as this class is very competitive attendence is important. See you next week.