8-17 Objective: Introductions
• Bell Work:
• Take book/paper from each
stack up front
• Read over syllabus and
classroom expectations.
• Make a goal
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This class
This year
Next 4 years
Next 40 years
8-20 Objective: diagnostic essay
What does the future hold?
• Bell Work:
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Go to www.edmodo.com
Create an account
Join my class.
Add to your profile
8-21 Objective: finish diagnostic
essay
• Bell Work:
• Go to www.turnitin.com
• Create an account. Our
class code # is
8-22 Objective: How to read and
annotate nonfiction
• Bell Work:
• Explore a college
website. What do you
have to do to apply?
8-23 Objective: Practice
annotating on your own
• Bell Work: Complete
colon/semi-colon worksheet
(on podium)—great for use
in summaries!
8-24 Objective: Share notes—
collaborative annotation
• Bell Work:
• Check out
Tweentribune.com or
another news site. Read
something interesting!
8-27 Objective: Outline answer
to our research question
• Bell Work: Find a powerful
direct quotation that will
help answer your research
question.
8-28 Objective:
Drafting
• Bell Work:
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Open Google Docs
Create a new Word doc
Set to Double Space
Name doc
• (Last Name) Essay #1
• Start writing—body
paragraphs and support are
your focus—don’t stress about
the intro.
8-29 Objective:
drafting day 2
• Bell Work:
• Keep on drafting!
• Keep organization on track
with outline.
• Focus on transitions
8-30 Objective: Adding
creativity—transitions,
adjectives, voice
• Bell Work:
• An adjective modifies a
noun (remember).
Underline all the adjectives
in your essay.
8-31 Objective:
peer edit
• Bell Work:
• Take a copy of the essay
rubric (on podium)
• Read it
• Check your own essay
against it.
9-4 Objective:
publish essay
• Bell Work
• Finalize your essay
• When finished
• Save As—Word—
• (Last Name)Essay1
No spaces
• Submit to Turnitin.com
• Turn in drafts and rubric
checklist
9-5 Objective: introduction to
antigone—family history
• Bell Work:
• Review Pronoun
Antecedent Agreement
Worksheet (on podium)
• Try first activity