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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Essay Peer Edit and Final Revision

Objectives:
Essay writing time continued

Agenda:
Go over the Body Paragraph Rubric
Partners complete the Peer Edit Worksheet
Make last revisions to your essays, give your essay a final read through and make sure it is perfect.  Please delete all edits made from the peer edit process.

HW:
Print out a hard copy of the Final Draft, due tomorrow along with the Blue Rubric, Essay Template worksheet, Essay Prep Evidence Collector, Self-Edit worksheet, and this peer edit worksheet as a packet.  (There should be 6 worksheets in this packet, including your paragraph).

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Essay writing time

Objectives:
Continue to develop the essay

Agenda:
Self-Edit S19: Must complete Steps 1-3 today (save step 3a for tomorrow).
Finish typing essays
If you are finished with Steps 1-3, please complete this MUGs Week 2 S19 and then log in to Quill.org to complete as many questions as you can in the given time frame, both of these assignments will go into your grade as EXTRA CREDIT.

HW:
All essays must be typed before peer editing takes place tomorrow.





Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Monday, January 28, 2019

Writing review and Essay prep

Objectives:
-Review components of the body paragraph
-Practice writing Evidence Sentences and Analysis

Agenda:
-Vote on essay Diagrams
-Finish pages 2 and 3 of Writing Academy - Analysis for Non-Fiction Articles-S19
-Essay Prep-page 1
-Essay Prep-Page 2 & 3 (Page 3 Honors only)

HW:
ALL:  Finish -Essay Prep-Page 2 & 3 (Page 3 Honors only)

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Notes on parts of a paragraph and analysis

Objectives:
-Learn the components of a body paragraph, specifically highlighting the analysis
-Create a visual representation of the components of a body paragraph

Agenda:

-Honors turn in Packet (Cover sheetHonors Vocabulary, Survey the TextArticle)
and  Honors article: Evidence Collector, Capen's version
Note: Hang on to this week's MUGs, we will finish it next week

HW:
All: Finish essay diagrams-due Monday

ES Review, Notes on Main Claim and Sub-Claims and Analysis

Objectives:
Review rules for writing Evidence Sentences
Construct a Main Claim and Sub Claims
Learn the difference between types of Analysis

Agenda:
Fire Drill

for the Honors article. Due tomorrow, 1/25/19

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Quill.org Lessons and ES Review

Objectives:
Review Grammar through personalized lessons based on Quill.org diagnostic test
Review Evidence Sentences by completing an online review via Google Classroom

Agenda:
-Students that were absent last Friday should take the Starter Diagnostic.  There is no need to sign up for the program, simply use the same login used for Google classroom.


-Students that already completed the Starter Diagnostic should complete the
assigned Activity Packets.  This should take around 30 minutes.

-Students login to Google classroom to complete the ES review.  Remember to
turn it in and hit submit when finished.

Homework:
Honors only:  Highlight claims and evidence for the Popken article and the letter to Apple, Inc. from JANA-due tomorrow.

Assignments for the week of April 13-April 17-Distance Learning

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