Hello!

Students, please remember that for the rest of your school life you will have events that conflict with homework. You and your parents need to discuss strategies to put in place when this happens. Many students get up earlier in the morning when they couldn't complete work the previous evening; my own kids used to do this. I was very clear in class, and on my blog, about the homework last night. I would accept even the slightest attempt to do your homework, but my heart is sinking at how many zeroes I had to give today (at the end of the grading period). It's not ok.

Today we analyzed a flash draft of a teen activism essay, and then students stated what strategies they saw in the essay. After that, they highlighted where they had used that strategy in their essay, or perhaps they needed to add it. In some classes several (or more than several) couldn't participate because they were busy trying to do what should have been finished for homework. They also added their conclusion.

H/W: Spend 20 minutes adding evidence prompts ( the paper you taped in your composition book) and thought prompts to your essay. What else needs to be improved? Evidence in quotations? Evidence in each paragraph? Does your evidence STRONGLY support your claim? Come in tomorrow with four well- developed revised paragraphs.

Thanks!