Period 1: Let's keep bringing in canned food come in for the food drive!
Today students worked in groups crafting claims for their essay, which they will write tomorrow. They learned and practiced that a claim shows more than one side of a character, and they also learned that a claim needs to be broad enough that you find evidence to support it from the beginning, middle and end of the text. As a class we practiced writing claims from Raymond's Run, and then students got into novel groups to write claims from their class novels. I want to remind you that when you are writing a claim, choose information that is true and important. GREAT job today!
H/W:
- Using the box and bullets structure, write a claim for a character in your novel. On My Honor students will use "Raymond's Run" instead of the novel.
- Write the claim, box it in, and then use three bullets. Beside each bullet write the exact evidence and page number from three different parts of the book to support your claim.
- For Tom Sawyer, you might want to look at chapter summaries online that can help direct you to a specific part of the text. This link will help:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tomsawyer/section1.rhtml
See you tomorrow! Thank you for a great day!
