Two weeks until Thanksgiving! Wow! time is sure rushing by. Soon enough we'll all be vacationing on the beach in Florida as we enjoy winter break. Okay, well maybe, we'll be slogging through our vacation shoveling snow off the driveway, but regardless, it will be vacation. For now you need to be focusing on a few different items.
First, make sure you are turning that paper into something amazing. Hopefully, you made good use of your peer edit time today and improved your paper. A couple things I noticed are weak claims and superfluous words. You need to make a claim. A claim is an opinion. Is your claim an opinion or is it just saying there are differences between the film and the book? If that is all you are saying then you are not completing the paper the way you should. Go back to the original hand-out. Read over the rubric. You are evaluating not just sharing the deviations. As for the superfluous words, you should embed a link to one of the words or phrases that appears naturally in your writing. Do not add words like "Animal Farm movie link" to the paper and attach the link to them. Attach the link to the words that naturally appear in the paper. One more day tomorrow to ask questions about the paper. I'd love to have the class examine a paper or two under the microscope of the document camera. Volunteers?
Many of you identified your nonfiction books and documentary films. You've earned your five points. The rest of you have until Monday, but I won't complain if it is all decided by tomorrow. One thing to consider, if you change your sources after Monday, November 18, then you will be docked a point. Do your research. Know that the selections you are giving me are the ones you want to work with. Monday is the deadline.
Okay, we will look at the killer whale article tomorrow. You should be thinking about those nonfiction questions we discussed yesterday (don't worry, period one, we'll catch you up). You need to be applying them to any piece of nonfiction you read. I want you to have them down cold. We'll see how you do.
Sorry I forgot to remind everyone: Pizza Party for Period Six Tomorrow! It will take place in period six. Bring your appetite!
See you soon.
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