We had a good day in class. As we continue to work on the the research papers, we're at the place where the students should be finished with research and doing mostly writing. That being said, many times as students are writing, they find that they have gaps in their research, and off they go to another website or book to find the missing bit of information in order to support their theses.
I had the students do a Quick Write today from the College Application Essay Prompts. Our prompt today was #40 -- If you were a door to door salesperson, what would you be able to sell? We had a window salesman with a catchy sales pitch about "panes." Again, the goal of the college application prompts is to help students think creatively and reflectively.
I had three videos for them today. The first one was a spoken word presentation about words, conviction, and the tendency of today's society to end declarative sentences with that little lift of the voice that makes it a questions. Following that, we watched of video about the writing process as a whiteboard animation lecture.
Next week Rough Draft #2 is due, and we took time to go over revising and editing strategies. Revising refers to the broader questions related to content, organization, and paragraph structures. To edit a paper students should re-read their papers and go through it carefully, sentence by sentence. Obvious matters of spelling, missing, and doubled words will be noticed as they read. As more mature writers, they should also be aware of stylistic points. They took notes during class to help them with as they work on these rough drafts.
I was reminded by a student that today is Reformation Day. We closed out the class with a video called "Reformation Polka."
Assignment for Next Week:
-- Rough Draft #2
This week's links:
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
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