Organizing Your Body Paragraphs: February 21, 2019

Focus: How do we establish a strong structure for our essays?

1. Warming up with 10 minutes of IXL time (or catch-up time with your thesis and topic sentences if you've been absent or confused); also, please check out my thesis feedback on the blog.

2. Enjoying a quick self-edit of your topic sentences

3. Selecting the best quotations from your word trace to include in your essay

4. Composing our lead-ins: Making sure they're doing their two jobs

• Please compose your lead-ins on your outline / overview.

HW:
1. For TOMORROW:

• Make revisions to your topic sentences.

• Finish selecting quotations and pasting them into your outline.

• Finish composing your lead-ins. 

• IXL Writing Strategies, Level J: Correct Errors in Everyday Use (O.6)

HEADS-UP: Final draft of Word Trace essay due in Turnitin.com

by Thursday, Feb 28 (4:00 pm).

2. By March 4: Finish reading your banned book.