1st trimester – Day 43
Completed back of Apostrophes in Contractions handout…by marking the errors in “The Scarlet Ibis” passages (A-D) – reviewed answers
Discussed thesis statements and the simple 3 step method for creating them – then wrote a thesis statement for our essay
Discussed concluding sentences…and how to write them by using our “doubting bullies” – by first reading each of our 3 topic sentences and having our “bully” question its meaning, we developed another way of saying the same thing, thus creating our 3 concluding sentences. We did this for our three main, body paragraphs of our essays.
In a short 3-5 sentence paragraph, we SHOWED what our proposed solutions would LOOK LIKE if they were carried out in Ohio’s Public Schools. Then we added the word “Imagine” to this paragraph and added it to our essays and outlines in section V (part C) of the concluding paragraph. Ending our papers with a powerful image will be appropriate and effective given our visual attention grabbers.
Homework:
No vocabulary test this week.
Continue to work on your essay and its outline (due Friday)
