Two weeks to go before break and there is a lot on our plates.
We all will be taking our 2nd quarter ACUITY test on Wednesday. Review those notes.
We are making our debates and presentations. Go for depth and insight on your arguments. Remember that two to three well developed arguments are much better than 5-7 that scratch the surface. You are given two minutes to argue...use every second of them!
We are making headway with our author's craft essay (a little faster in the honors classes). In the honor's classes you need to be writing 2-3 pages tonight. You are still exploring potential author's craft moves and thinking about why the author is doing what he/she is doing. You are not writing a formal essay. You are just exploring ideas, like the examples I shared with you in class. Here's a link to them. By writing about them, you'll start to see if you have something to work with or not. You should also start thinking about claims!
In the standard class you need to be completing the reflections over the theme essays that were handed back today. If you reflect seriously you will learn, seriously. Here are the prompts.
Standard will jump headfirst into the author's craft essay tomorrow after presentations, and the honors classes will be identifying powerful craft moves and staking claims after their presentations.
Until next time...
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