Drafting Out to Sea: September 13, 2018

Focus: How can we build our topic sentences and start drafting our essays?

1. Warming up with grading a few topic sentences

2. Composing our own topic sentences

3. Exploring the structure of a sample summary-response

4. Working on your rough draft

• Please start a new Google doc for your draft, label it "Your Last Name Summary-Response." and place it inside your Kite Runner folder.

• If you finish your summary in class, start on the response.

• See essay timeline attached here (and posted below).

HW:
1. Bring your independent reading book to class tomorrow.

2. Finish composing your summary (and topic sentences if you need an extra day).

Due Date	What’s Due
Thursday, Sep 12	Pre-writing due (Attempt and Completion grade)
Monday, Sep 17	Topic sentences and rough draft of summary due (Growth grade)
Wednesday, Sep 19	Rough draft of response/complete rough draft due (Growth grade)
Tuesday, Sep 25	Printed final draft due (Mastery grade)