English III Blog
Mr. Restad keeps this page up to date
so you can check what we did while you were gone... or asleep.
so you can check what we did while you were gone... or asleep.
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Put finishing touches on peer edits and turned in research papers if necessary.
Read this poem by MIchael McFee! It's great! Spitwads Little paper cuds we made by ripping the corners or edges from homework and class notes then ruminating them into balls we’d flick from our fingertips or catapult with pencils or (sometimes after lunch) launch through striped straws like deadly projectiles toward the necks of enemies and any other target where they’d stick with the tiniest splat, I hope you’re still there, stuck to unreachable ceilings like the beginnings of nests by generations of wasps too ignorant to finish them or under desktops with blunt stalactites of chewing gum, little white words we learned to shape and hold in our mouths while waiting to let them fly, our most tenacious utterance. Peer edited today!
Turned in research paper 3 ways. MAKE SURE YOU DO EACH ONE!
CARROT DAY! Those who finished their essays got to relax. Those who didn't worked in the essay sweatshop. OFFICIAL DUE DATE IS TOMORROW AT THE END OF CLASS!  Work day! Last official one.
Carrots tomorrow for those who finished up the full draft of their paper. Plan for the week
Research project due by end of class on Thursday. Discussed conclusions for our paper: Finally! We get to use "I."
Conclusions should be about a page long in which you:
Writing day! We also discussed what to do in the rare case of an emergency. Check out the video below. We did a brief peer review to help guide and correct our writing and then just continued working on our research projects.
Writing day!
Full drafts are due Tuesday, April 24! Print out and give to Mr. Restad by the end of the day. Discussed main functions of a paragraph
Discussed 2 paragraph types Write intro paragraph for section
Write supporting paragraphs
Reviewed three common mistakes on outlines.
Made corrections to outlines/finished outlines. Worked on research outlines.
A printed copy is due tomorrow by the end of class. Internet was down, so we did a review of some research concepts like outlining, source credibility, citation, and paragraph structure..
Corrected works cited pages.
Began looking at outlines for our research project. |