Thank you, Mr. Earle

Sharing a student reflection:

Where I learned most about writing a thesis paper was last year in Mr. Earle's English class where we did an exercise called Revision Baseball. Each of us wrote a thesis paper connected to a chapter in the book, “The Contender”, and the rest of the class would attempt to discover grammatical, punctuation, capitalization, and other errors inside of the paper, and one of these problems tended to be errors in the paper’s thesis. A simple capitalization mistake would be a “Single”, or one point, a grammatical mistake would be a double, a correction in the thesis would be a triple, and changing both the thesis and the paper to match each other would be a home run. Of course everyone attempted to go for the triples and the home runs, and therefore it turned into a lesson about how a thesis worked within an essay. By the end of that lesson, I had learned much more about a thesis than I had in my entire life. Before that lesson, I hardly knew what a thesis was, but in a few short weeks, I had learned nearly all of what I know about them today.