September 17 - Ideas
English 9/17/13 - Ideas & Content, Part I
Read the following poem "The Important Thing About the Traits."
Read the following poem "The Important Thing About the Traits."
For your Warm-Up activity, please choose one of the above traits and write a one paragraph response of at least five sentences explaining why you agree with the description listed in the poem. Try to include additional comparisons, such as similes and metaphors, in your response.
For class today, we will be analyzing student essay responses and scoring their ability to incorporate IDEAS into their written response according to the 6+1 Traits model.
For class today, we will be analyzing student essay responses and scoring their ability to incorporate IDEAS into their written response according to the 6+1 Traits model.
Using your 6+1 Traits rubric, score this essay entitled "Dusty Books." Make sure you are able to justify your answer by using quotes from the text.
Let's try to help out this writer. Choose one of the ideas in this paragraph and create a more specific web/outline to rewrite this response.
After scoring this essay, let's try to redo the response to score a 5 on our 6+1 Traits rubric.
Your assignment prompt: Is it better to be an optimist or a pessimist? Support your opinion with at least three specific reasons. Your essay should include examples and details in each paragraph to help support your response.
Create a web outlining your response to the prompt above. On Tuesday, we will use our outlines and the Step Up to Writing technique to write our essays.
Your assignment prompt: Is it better to be an optimist or a pessimist? Support your opinion with at least three specific reasons. Your essay should include examples and details in each paragraph to help support your response.
Create a web outlining your response to the prompt above. On Tuesday, we will use our outlines and the Step Up to Writing technique to write our essays.