All Over the Place

Today was the last day to make-up any outstanding quizzes as mid-term grades are now finalized. For the most part, we have spent these four weeks working on items to help us with multiple choice passages, argumentation, and rhetorical analysis: vocabulary, modes of discourse, allusions, tone words, exemplification. Now, it is time to move to the next phase: writing! As stated on the board this week, MC & Argument Get Serious!

1: After vocab, I gave you feedback to finish up your individual paragraphs on the group "vision" exemplification. All students - in-class or absent - will have the final draft of their paragraph completed prior to class starting tomorrow. Remember, you want a topic sentence that sets up the idea of vision and then explore the specific example and how it connects to that particular vision and its specificity.

3: After vocab, we used most of the time to work on the composition of the "vision" paragraphs for exemplification. Each student will compose a paragraph on an assigned person/idea/group and complete this task by the start of class on the shared Google doc that all of you have. All students will be expected to have this complete by the start of class tomorrow in order for me to evaluate and give you ideas for revision. At the end of class, we completed our first practice MC from the 5 for 5 book. We will grade and review those answers tomorrow to help you with your Multiple Choice understanding and techniques.

4: After vocab, tone words, and a little longer-than-expected drill, we used the time to talk about CDQ writing, which allowed us to take a quote, determine if we will challenge, defend, or qualify it, and then create a thesis statement. For homework, bring in a list of examples that will support your group's thesis. We will use these to create a verbal not-really-an-essay discussion.

7: Same as fourth hour to a certain point. For the CDQ, we have already taken all of the examples, ordered them into a digestible range, and prepare to share with the class tomorrow.