Friday

.....I got to World Lit Wednesday morning a little late. Plopped into my seat and scrambled to get my paper and pencil out and answer the warm-up question on the board. As I finished it up and my teacher came around to collect it, I noticed everyone turning in two papers. I peeked over at the papers in front Agreeable*. A warm-up on one page, and a chunky paragraph on the other page.
.....Oh snap! Our thesis statements for our first essay were due! I jerked a page out of my binder. I'd hardly given ten minutes thought to the topic I'd cover in our essay. I scrawled down a single sentence that said something about comparing Nora and Antigone and strengths and character and whatever else junk I could think of that sounded good.
We got our thesis statements back Friday after an announcement about making up the points we fell short by revising them. I fully expected to be spending a good chunk of time doing exactly that.
.....I got full points for the thesis statement along with a personal note from the teacher saying she was looking forward to reading my paper.
At first I was pretty excited. I'll be the first to admit I'm a bit of a suck up and I enjoy pleasing my teachers.
.....But everything has its price.
.....I realized that there's no way around it now and I'm actually going to have to put a little effort into writing this paper...