Hi Everyone!
WEDNESDAY:
- Revise your personal essays and post to the blog by next Friday so I can send the blog out to the whole school!
- Write your "How-to" rough drafts!
- 1-2 pages—longer if there are pictures.
- Pick a specific skill that interests you
- For example:
- Instead of "How to Draw," pick "How to draw faces"
- Instead of "How to Babysit," pick "How to make kids love your babysitting" or "How to make your babysitting into a major business!"
- Include:
- Introduction
- Attention-grabber
- Explanation of why this skill is important
- Several steps or categories of learning
- Write a short paragraph for each, full of personality and explanation!
- Conclusion
- Pictures! These can be general pictures from the internet—or pictures of your own knitting/drawings/etc
- Have fun writing this! Make sure you add your personality to your writing and choose a skill that you really like (even if you're not that good at it :D)
THURSDAY:
- Write your Personal Essay rough drafts!
- You can find examples, tips, and writing prompts on Google Drive in the Handouts folder
- Make sure it is:
- 1-3 pages
- Double-spaced
- Header in the top left corner
FRIDAY:
- Peer review the remaining How-To essays
Hi Everyone!
Wednesday:
- Peer review the final personal essay with at least 1 page of comments (5-6 comments)
- Revise the essays that were peer-reviewed last week
Thursday:
- Check your biographies for the mistake of using other writers' sentences as your own. If I see this in the final draft, you will fail :(
- Peer review the final essays (Jaydn, Noah, Bethany) with about 3/4-1 page each :)
Friday:
- Revise your personal essays and post to the blog by next Friday so I can send the blog out to the whole school!
- Begin work on the How-To rough draft!
- Pick a specific skill that interests you
- For example:
- Instead of "How to Draw," pick "How to draw faces"
- Instead of "How to Babysit," pick "How to make kids love your babysitting" or "How to make your babysitting into a major business!"
- Include:
- Introduction
- Attention-grabber
- Explanation of why this skill is important
- Several steps or categories of learning
- Write a short paragraph for each, full of personality and explanation!
- Conclusion
- Pictures! These can be general pictures from the internet—or pictures of your own knitting/drawings/etc
- Have fun writing this! Make sure you add your personality to your writing and choose a skill that you really like (even if you're not that good at it :D)
Hi Everyone!
WEDNESDAY:
- Write your rough draft for your personal essay.
- You can find examples, tips, and writing prompts on Google Drive in the Handouts folder
- Make sure it is:
- 1-3 pages
- Double-spaced
- Header in the top left corner
THURSDAY:
- Read and write a peer review (around 1 page each, handwritten), for the next three students to have their biography peer reviewed:
- Look for:
- Information you'd like added
- Information you don't think is relevant/intriguing
- Attention-grabber
- Organization:
- Categorical?
- Chronological?
- In-between?
- Does it make sense?
- Etc
FRIDAY:
- Read and write a peer review (around 1 page each, handwritten), for the final students to have their biography peer reviewed.
Look for:
- Information you'd like added
- Information you don't think is relevant/intriguing
- Attention-grabber
- Organization:
- Categorical?
- Chronological?
- In-between?
- Does it make sense?
- Etc
Hi Everyone!
Wednesday and Friday:
- This week, go through your biographies and revise them. I will be looking through both drafts (Google Drive allows me to see both) and grading you in part on that you used our peer reviews to make changes. You don't have to take every piece of advice you used, but do use a good amount of it.
- Read your drafts aloud and show them to your parents to make sure they are also grammar-checked.
- Then, post your final drafts to the blogs!
Thursday:
- Write your biography rough drafts:
- Write your biography rough drafts using the information from your 10+ notecards and 5+ sources from your works cited page. It should be 2-3 pages and must have an introduction and a conclusion. The body may discuss the person's life in categories (i.e.: their modeling career, their acting career, and their doctoring) or chronologically (by time). Just be sure to include the things that interest you about the person!
- Revise your book/movie review rough drafts this week if you just finished having them peer-reviewed.
- Read your drafts aloud and show them to your parents to make sure they are also grammar-checked.
- Post your final drafts to your blogs!
