Standard 11-11-2013

The paper is due tomorrow.  Be sure you have it typed and double spaced and looking good.  Have your peer edit sheet and your drafts too.  If you have the instruction sheet with the rubric on back, that would also be helpful.

Here is a review of the questions I asked today.  
1) Do you have the right heading?

Name

Date

Period

Type of Paper

2) Do you have a creative title?

3) Do you have an effective hook?

4) Do you transition to the claim?

5) Is the claim clear?

6) Do you mention the title and author in the introduction?

7) Is the title underlined or italicized?

Is the author's name spelled correctly?

8) Do you start your second paragraph with a topic sentence?

9) Do you give enough story background so that your ideas are clear? This refers to CONTEXT!

10) Do you present the information in logical order?

11) Is what you are discussing directly related to your claim?

12) Do you use quotes?

Are they cited?

Are they cited correctly?

13) Do you explain the quotes?

Every one of them?

Are they explained well?

14) Do you close the paragraph by referring back to the claim?

15) Do you use a transitional topic sentence to start paragraph three?

Does it connect and build upon what was already said in paragraph two?

Does it relate back to the claim?

16) Do you repeat the ideas listed above in questions 9-14 for paragraph three? paragraph four?

Do you handle both tier one and tier two?

17) Do you have a closing paragraph?

18) Do you restate the claim and connect your ideas to the claim through a brief summary of the paper?

19) Do you close with a BANG!?

20) If you can answer yes to all of these questions, then you should feel good and be ready to hand your paper in to me tomorrow.

Be sure you have a clean final copy with you and all the drafts you have written.

We start something new tomorrow.  

See you soon.