TUESDAY 11-13 B-Day: Structure of Single and Multi-paragraph Essays: Part I
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail NOW Please!
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
- Please see Mr. DeGrandis if he is helping you find a mentor and you haven't heard what's up!
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DO Now - Copy
Copy these two new words into Vocabulary List II
7. contagion n. (contagions) - the spreading of a disease or idea from one person to another through close contactOnce the idea of storming the Bastille took hold, it spread like a contagion among the people.
8. pestilence n. (pestilences) - a fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague
Learning Target(s)
- I can organize my thoughts on "paper" creating a rough draft of my Who is Ha? Essay.
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Mini-Lesson: Drafting - Getting Your Ideas on Paper (or a Chromebook)
- SINGLE PARAGRAPH ESSAY
- A single paragraph that can stand by itself or can be a body paragraph in a multi-paragraph essay.
- The Structure: TREES
- Topic Sentence
- Reason
- Evidence
- Explain it
- Summary
- MULTI-PARAGRAPH ESSAYS (3-5 Paragraphs or more)
- Used for research papers, large essays and argumentative essays and much more.
- Watch this first: What's Opera Doc? Then check out this...
- Welcome to the World of the Five Paragraph Essay based on the cartoon, What's Opera Doc? (Periods 1, 2 and 4)
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Work Time
- Open Assignment 31.0 and fill out the outline based on the information in the Welcome to the World of the 5-Paragraph Essay.
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Assessment / Homework
- Work on Assignment 31.0 tonight!
WEDNESDAY 11-14-18 C-Day: Essay Structure: Part II
Announcements
- Are you writing an essay for the Just Law program?
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
- Please see Mr. DeGrandis if he is helping you find a mentor and you don't have one yet!!
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DO Now - Copy
Copy these two new words into Vocabulary List II
9. writhe v. (writhes, writhing, writhed) - to make continual twisting movements of the body.
The majestic lion writhed in pain, its body twisting in strange patterns, after being shot with a tranquilizer gun at close range.
10. pivotal adj. (pivot, pivoting, pivots, pivoted) - of crucial importance in relation to the success of something else.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can organize my thoughts on "paper" creating a rough draft of my Who is Ha? Essay.
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Mini-Lesson: Giving Context for Evidence
- Always give the reader an idea of which part of the text you are referring.
- EXAMPLE
- Evidence from text: "I would still be standing there/ crying and waving to nothing/ if Brother Khoi hadn't come/ to take my hand."
- Context: This quote is the part the poem, Titi Waves Goodbye. It gives the reader the image of Ha standing, crying, waving goodbye to her friend whom she may never see again. It proves
- How it might look in an essay...
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Work Time
- Work on Assignment 31.0.
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Assessment / Homework
- Work on Assignment 31.0.
THURSDAY & FRIDAY 11-15, 16-18 D/C -Day: Drafting - Complete First Draft of Essay
Announcements
- Did You Check Your Gmail?
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
- Please see Mr. DeGrandis if he is helping you find a mentor and you don't have one yet!!
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DO Now - Read This!
The following Assignments are due Sunday 11:59 PM!
- 31.0 Who is Ha? First Draft
- 33.0 20% Time Blog Update
The following Assignments should have been turned in by now...
- 32.0 DIRT Day
- 30.0 Pre-writing for Who is Ha?
- 29.5 Who is Ha? Graphic Organizer
Learning Target(s)
- I can complete the first draft of my Who is Ha? essay.
- I can update my class on my 20% Time Project by updating my 20% Time Blog.
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Mini-Lesson: None
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Work Time
- Complete the first draft of your Who is Ha? essay.
- Work on your blog update.
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Assessment / Homework
- Both assignments are due Sunday evening.
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