I was struggling for a blog title today, so I went with three allusions to fourth hour's dynamic discussion of brainstorming, sacrificing examples, and trying to create t-shirts from random ideas shouted out in class.
Either today (4 & 7) or tomorrow (1 & 3), you will be receiving a 5 passage MC packet for practice. This will not be for a grade, but it will be one more set of practices prior to our full MC test next week. You can take this all at once, in parts, or one at a time. If you want to challenge yourself, put the timer on for an hour and do all the passages at once. I will reveal the answers on Monday.
1: We finished up our team CDQ practice on the Anne Frank quote by sharing all of our examples, analyzing the validity and range, and determining the best collegiate-level exemplification. Then, we completed our last practice MC, which was, in my opinion - not that I have one, a fabulous mix of questions styles and context.
3: We started up vocab unit 19 with 4 words and then moved into a 2 passage MC practice in order to be in the mood of a multi-passage test. We will go over the answers tomorrow.
4 & 7: After vocab and tone work, we continued brainstorming with an exemplification by sharing examples from your abstract nouns. The lesson from all of these brainstorms is that you want to have specific examples from a variety of subjects. We are almost to the point of writing full argumentative essays, yes plural, essays. Then, we worked in groups to brainstorm examples for "identity" and "jingoism" and created a team thesis statement clarifying the meaning of the abstract noun. Then, each of you chose an example to write a body paragraph for this thesis statement. If you were absent, then you need to choose either identity or jingoism as your abstract noun. Then, determine 1 specific examples that reflects this abstract noun. And, last, write one body paragraph exemplifying this specific examples.
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