English III Blog
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so you can check what we did while you were gone... or asleep.
Work day. Finished outlines. Typed essays.
Students will have ~15 minutes to prepare to print essays before peer editing tomorrow. DUE THURSDAY: Outline and retyped essay ready for peer and self editing.
For today we continued working on outlines built from our rough drafts. See below for notes. ¤HOOK/INTRODUCTION OF TOPIC
PSYCH! The in class essay was actually just a rough draft of a final, more polished 5-paragraph essay we're going to work on for the next few days. For today, we reviewed our rough draft BODY PARAGRAPHS (ignoring our intros and conclusions for now) and built a backwards outline using the attached document. This allowed us the opportunity to make sure every paragraph had the following:
Mini-incentive day: caught up on any missing assignments and made sure to finish the in class essay from yesterday.
In class essay.
PROMPT: What does living a good life mean, how do we do it in our modern world, and what prevents humans today from achieving it? Requirements:
Using our notes from the discussion yesterday and our quote chart, we wrote our response for the assignment: "The Yellow Wallpaper" Literary Technique Paragraph.
Prepped for an in class essay tomorrow by reviewing the stories we read. Essay topic is below. PROMPT: What does living a good life mean, how do we do it in our modern world, and what prevents humans today from achieving it? Requirements:
WORKS READ Held a discussion over "The Yellow Wallpaper." Students are to come to class having read the story, with their quote charts completed, and ready to contribute to a group discussion to deepen our understanding of the text and answer the underlying question: Explain how the first-person narration of the “Yellow Wallpaper” influences the overall purpose of the story?
Finished reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" and finished out quote chart. Both can be found in the assignment below.
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