Week of January 8 - January 12

TWO SNOW DAYS LAST WEEK....TIME TO GET BACK INTO THE RHYTHM OF WRITING!

AGENDA (MONDAY -WEDNESDAY):

Work on mini-research paper (rubrics given on TUESDAY)
     ** Prewriting and graphic organizers should begin on MONDAY, 1/8/18
     ** Rubrics handed on out TUESDAY, 1/9/18
     ** First Rough draft of essays (Intro and Body Paragraph) due in class on TUESDAY, 1/9/18
     

HOMEWORK:

1.) Move forward on your Introduction and Body paragraph....will be used tomorrow for a Peer Edit Activity

Hook and Clincher Help? 01/09/14

Need some help crafting a hook/grabber for your essay?  Here are some resources that you may find beneficial!

How to Write a Hook

How to Write a Good Hook

How to Write an Essay Intro

What about clincher assistance?  Anyone in the need for that?  Try some of these strategies on for size!

Grabbers and Clinchers

This site is really good because it shows how to connect your clincher to your grabber.  You have to scroll down to find the clinchers, but they're on there!

THURSDAY

1) Mini-Lesson = Closing paragraph

3 STEPS NEEDED IN A CLOSING PARAGRAPH 

*Restate the main idea (the points of your research that you made in your intro paragraph thesis statement need to be said again)

*Summarize the three points 

*Final interesting sentence (Never Ever Say "The End" Handout)

***Need More Help With Your Conclusion??!!***

**One or more of the following strategies may help you write an effective conclusion.**

• Play the “So What” Game. If you’re stuck and feel like your conclusion isn’t saying anything new or interesting, ask a friend to read it with you. Whenever you make a statement from your conclusion, ask the friend to say, “So what?” or “Why should anybody care?” Then ponder that question and answer it. 
  You can also use this strategy on your own, asking yourself “So What?” as you develop your ideas or your draft.
• Return to the theme or themes in the introduction. This strategy brings the reader full circle. For example, if you begin by describing a scenario, you can end with the same scenario as proof that your essay is helpful in creating a new understanding. You may also refer to the introductory paragraph by using keywords or parallel concepts and images that you also used in the introduction.
• Synthesize, don’t summarize: Include a brief summary of the paper’s main points, but don’t simply repeat things that were in your paper. Instead, show your reader how the points you made and the support and examples you used fit together. Pull it all together.
• Include a provocative insight or quotation from the research or reading you did for your paper.
• Propose a course of action, a solution to an issue, or questions for further study. This can redirect your reader’s thought process and help her to apply your info and ideas to her own life or to see the broader implications.
• Point to broader implications. For example, if your paper examines the Greensboro sit-ins or another event in the Civil Rights Movement, you could point out its impact on the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. A paper about the style of writer Virginia Woolf could point to her influence on other writers or on later feminists.

DO NOT

• Beginning with an unnecessary, overused phrase such as “in conclusion,” “in summary,” or “in closing.” Although these phrases can work in speeches, they come across as wooden and trite in writing.
• Stating the thesis for the very first time in the conclusion.
• Introducing a new idea or subtopic in your conclusion.
• Ending with a rephrased thesis statement without any substantive changes.
• Making sentimental, emotional appeals that are out of character with the rest of an analytical paper.

HW - finish the rough draft of your closing paragraph.  It will be peer edited at the start of class tomorrow. 
Your essay will be submitted in class tomorrow.

Friday 

1) Peer edit of closing paragraphs

2) Submit essay's via Google Classroom

3) Transition to our Holocaust Curriculum Unit - Check in...what do you already know about the Holocaust? KWL (Know, Want to know, Learned)