Yesterday on my blog I summarized what has been covered by guest teachers the past two days. Today we took a step back and carefully reviewed assignments and what students should have accomplished by now. I cleared up questions and any misunderstandings. My guest teachers did a great job! I did not want to disrupt the flow of writing, so I let them carry on with my plans.
Please see yesterday's blog for detailed instructions. Everything you need can be found on Canvas under Announcements (those are the instructions) and Modules (that's where you'll find the link to articles and video resources).
H/W:
Come in tomorrow with your Teen Activist essay started. You should have your box and bullets outline, and then you first and second body paragraphs completed. Today we discussed the structure of this writing:
Introduction:
- Begin by defining teen activism (you can find that in the first two articles on the resource list)
- Make your claim
- summarize parallel (bullet) points
Each body paragraph:
- Topic sentence (which is actually a bullet point)
- Begin next sentence with "For example..." - this leads you to evidence (from a resource)
- Explain the evidence with a thought prompt ( This shows...; This make me think...; The important idea is...) Explain how the evidence supports the claim
- Restate topic sentence
Remember, research includes data, numbers, dates, quotes, facts.. use these!
Thank you, and see you tomorrow!
