Honors: Make sure your claim is your own! Yes, you are defending a position that is similar to your peers; however, your claims should be distinctly individual. They should capture your thoughts, focus and ideas not your group's thoughts, focus and ideas.
Today we dived into our drafting. Some started with hooks and intros; others jumped into writing body paragraphs, realizing they could come back to the intro once they have a better sense of what they will be writing about. Either way is fine. You need to do what is best for you.
Tonight we will take a break from defending a position and instead focus on the nonfiction meetings. Finish the book for tomorrow and then be sure to complete your task well. Be awesome and awesome conversation is sure to follow.
Standard: Topics have been selected and writing groups have been formed. No, you are not writing with your group members; you are just sharing topics. These groups give you someone to bounce ideas off of when you start to struggle or are temporarily confused or just looking for a second opinion or someone to share an amazing bit of research with.
We began our outlines today in class. You don't need to finish them for tomorrow, but by the end of class tomorrow, we have hopefully moved on to writing initial drafts of the paper. More on that tomorrow. Here's another link to the outline plan.
See you then.
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