Writing 3 Class Notes -- Week 5 (10/8)

 Greetings!

We had a good, productive day today.  We started with a Quick Write.  For today's prompts, I used the facts that October 1, 1908  was the day that Ford manufacturing rolled the Model T off its production line and that October 2, 1950 was the day that the first Peanuts comic was published.  Some students also mentioned that Tuesday was National Coffee Day.  Many students wrote about car-related stories.

Following our Quick Write I usually do a Homework Check (I use the time while they're doing the Quick Write to pass back work.)  Today I took time to go over the Final Drafts of their essays. The rubric that I use for evaluating their essays consider 5 categories:  Focus, Content, Organization,  Sentence Structures, and Mechanics.  This allows me to give more holistic grades for the papers they write.

I went over the assignments connected with the longer Research Paper which is the primary assignment for this class.  We went over the due dates, which are as follows:

10/8 -- Research Proposal

10/15 -- Research Paper Outline

10/22 -- (nothing due)

10/29 -- Research Paper Rough Draft #1 (focus on content and organization)

11/5 -- Peer Reviews (in class)

11/12 -- Research Paper Rough Draft #2 (focus on sentences/mechanics)

11/19 -- Research Paper Rough Draft #3 (opt.)

12/3, 12/10. and 12/17 -- Final Drafts and Presentations

For next week, students should prepare their Research Proposal.  This writing assignment has 2 parts:  "Why I'm Interested" and Research Plan.  In addition to this short paper, students are assigned a worksheet about developing their thesis statements.  I've posted on Google Classroom some other resources for Planning Research Papers.

Following this discussion, we had student-led discussions.  Lilly and Martha talked about ways to take notes for research paper writing, and I covered evaluating sources and bibliographical information.

Here are the student-led discussion leaders for next week.

Week 7 (10/8)	Paraphrasing & Summarizing	1. Joseph Viskocil
		2.   DelliaBarrett
	Mosaic Plagiarism	1. Annika Choate
		2.
	Common Knowledge	1. Jacob Roberts
		2.   William Hutchinson

Assignments for Next Week

-- Write the Research Proposal

-- Writing Your Own Thesis Statement

Links for this Week

Class Notes

October 1, 1908   & October 2, 1950  Days in history

Writing 3 Google Drive folder

Have a great weekend!

Blessings,

Mrs. Prichard