Honors: Let me start by reminding you that we will not be holding our nonfiction book meetings tomorrow. I am moving them to either Wednesday or Thursday. I'll confirm the date with you tomorrow.
Overall, the responses for the nonfiction writing #2 were quite good. A significant number of you did research outside your text to help you write the response. An impressive effort. Yet I couldn't help being disappointed. I passed back those responses today and even though around 95% of you said you looked at the checklist before printing off your final paper, an astounding 67% of you had errors that could have been fixed if you had just looked at the checklist. Attention to detail, young padawans.
You selected the positions you are going to defend today. Then you started working on your plan of attack. As a reminder, here is what you will need to have thought through and written down:
PLAN OF ATTACK
1) Claim-opinionated and original
2) Arguments
3) Evidence-valid and relevant
4) Any notes you've taken and annotated
5) Sources-identified and vetted
6) Counterclaim ideas
7) Ideas to counter the counterclaim
Come to class tomorrow with this plan all in order.
Standard: We are also working on defending our positions but we are slightly behind the other group. After reviewing a couple sample argumentative papers that had varying degrees of success, you were sent off to explore possible topic ideas. You need to identify three topics from the link below,
Click here for the topics.
and write them down in either your writer's notebook or on a Google Document. After each topic you should write a potential claim you will use to clarify your position. after that, you should write a paragraph explaining your interest in the topic, why you chose it, potential arguments you might use and potential roadblocks and counterclaims. Come to class tomorrow with this completed.
See you then.
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