Honors: Today we revisited our winter break fun. I collected the final copies of the author craft essays. We also listened to several presentations. Tomorrow we will hear a few more presentations/debates with the hope of completing all of them on Wednesday. I'll spend a bit of time on the difference between active and passive voice tomorrow as well. It's a concept most of you are unaware of, but one that will improve your writing. It also happens to show up on the acuity and ISTEP tests, so it's always good to be prepared.
Standard: We also revisited our winter break fun, but then we spent the rest of the class trying to polish up the author craft essays. I reminded you of:
-the need for a catchy title
-the requirements of the introduction: hook, synopsis, claim
-stating your arguments at the beginning of each paragraph
-using quotes from the text for support
-citing those quotes correctly
-closing each paragraph by returning to the claim
-the requirements of the closing paragraph: restated claim, a brief summary of arguments, a pow or jolt or cohesive closing.
I'll be collecting those papers tomorrow. After that, we will listen to the presentations and debates that have not yet been shared.
See you later.
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