--Please pick up each of the following from the front table:
- the "English 10--Academic Argument Grading Document"
- the "A Paragraph's a Paragraph's a Paragraph! (CER)" template
--Reminder: It is important for you to stay caught up with regard to all of your coursework. It is in your best interest to check the blog and Schooltool often. Additionally, if you have an "INC" for a Marking Period, following up with me ASAP would be wise!
--agenda/HW
Writing Workshop Preparation -- Research Unit: Writing an Academic Argument
--preview the grading document
--Reminder: A paragraph's a paragraph's a paragraph!
- Please make sure that each of your evidence-based claim paragraphs are structured properly.
--review how to use a "Works Cited" page to determine what goes in parenthetical references
--Closure
- What do you, personally, need to do when you return from lunch in order to wrap up your best work?
- turn and talk
- whole-class share-out
Transition
--Please take out all of your materials for your research-based academic argument (annotated sources, notes, outlining template[s], counterargument materials, etc.).--Please grab your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom, log yourself in, and access your research paper.
Writing Workshop -- Research Unit: Writing an Academic Argument
--Reminder: Here is the compact ("gameplan") under which we are working so that your productivity is maximized:
Research Unit--Compact for Independent Work Time
- A quiet environment will be established and maintained. You have agreed to "police" yourselves to assure that this happens.
- Music will play lightly in the background. If you prefer, you can listen to your own music via a device and earbuds/headphones.
- You are expected to set and aim to achieve a goal for today's work block. Consider the following:
- I will leave class having "quick-written" a potential anecdote to use as my essay's hook.
- I will leave class today with my essay claim revised so as to better reflect what my essay aims to argue, the order of my main points (including the counterclaim[s] that I will address), etc.
- I will leave class with my last (second? third?) evidence-based claim paragraph fully typed in Google Docs and RE-READ.
- I will leave class today with a counterargument paragraph fully typed in Google Docs and RE-READ.
- I will leave class with all of my sources properly entered in NoodleTools.
- I will leave class with my "Works Cited" page exported into Google Docs and copied and pasted in as the last page of my paper.
Ticket-Out-the-Door -- Essays Shared via Email
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 5/23 (see the "Membean Routine" document).
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book (memoir still?!) between now and next class. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS! During the final marking period, I intend to randomly check for books and include your level of preparation in my reporting via Schooltool.
Writing
--Please access your academic argument Google Doc between now and next class and attend to any feedback provided so that you can move your essay from good to GREAT!
--Continue thinking about the End-of-Course Assignment question:
- What is your "why?"?
*I AM AVAILABLE AFTER SCHOOL PRETTY MUCH DAILY FROM NOW UNTIL THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AND AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS ONE-ON-ONE (ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE STRUGGLING--BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF AND TAKE INITIATIVE!).*
