--Please pick up an index card from the front table. On the index card, write down your research topic. If you have "landed on" a preliminary inquiry question, jot that down on the index card as well. (I have put my index card up on the whiteboard as an example.)
S. the C.
--oral reading of "Sample Argument for Animal Farm" document in order to answer the following questions:
- What is an academic argument?
- What does an academic argument require?
- starting to explore databases in search of more scholarly, credible sources.
- continuing to develop your "working knowledge" of your topic. Think of it this way:
- Could you come up to the podium and talk intelligently about your topic for five minutes without repeating yourself?
- working on narrowing your topic by zeroing in on the "right" question with the knowledge that the paper you will eventually write will be argumentative. As such, you should be jotting down new questions as they occur to you.
- beginning to build a Works Cited page via Noodletools in order to keep track of the most useful potential sources you find.
LIBRARY
- Seat yourselves at the same computers at which you sat on Monday
- Engage with instruction delivered by Mrs. Donohue (reviewing assessments from Monday, learning about logical databases from which to gather information, and setting up a rough Works Cited page via NoodleTools)
- Continue conducting preliminary research in order to develop a deeper "working knowledge" of your topic
- Continue jotting down notes on the back of your "Selecting a Potential Topic and a Developing a 'Working Knowledge'" sheet and/or in your notebook
- Tip: Begin inputting potentially useful sources in NoodleTools (building a rough Works Cited page) so that you can easily re-access any that might end up being used in your final research paper!
- Jot down any additional curious questions that come to you on the front of your sheet and/or in your notebook
- Are you any closer to "landing on" an inquiry question about which you can write an argument?
- FYI: Next class, some more of you will take the podium and share your "working knowledge" with the class via a continuation of our somewhat impromptu public speaking exercise!
--quickly develop a compact for today's library time
--pick up a copy of the "Understanding Argument" sheet from the front table
- How did we do earlier in class?
--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 12/20 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
Writing
--Your "Animal Farm End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)" group responses are due at the end of next class on Tuesday of next week (12/18) submitted to me via email.
HW (Class Preparation)
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
Writing
--Your "Animal Farm End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)" group responses are due at the end of next class on Tuesday of next week (12/18) submitted to me via email.
HW (Class Preparation)
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
- "There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book" (Frank Serafini, author of The Reading Workshop)
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
On the backburner:
- more library time (When? What?)
- first Grammar Hammer (WUBAIS!!!)
