Please write responses to the following prompts. We will discuss our responses in class and they will be collected at the end of the period.

1. Identify the theme you're covering in a few words.
2. Identify the time period you're covering in a few words.
3. Your thesis statement is likely a claim about how/why this theme has changed during this time period or the effects of this change. State your thesis in one sentence.
4. Is your thesis a contestable claim (does it require proof to be accepted)?
5. How will you prove your thesis?
6. What rhetorician who we have read in class do you use?
7. What external source (primary document, secondary commentary, the work of an additional author, etc.) do you use?