Thursday,+August+25

Bell Ringer: Grammar Practice
You must make sure that your pronouns and antecedents agree!
 * Check out the quick review here!
 * Now try this exercise!

Is There Enough PEE in Your Paragraphs???[[image:2003-07-24.gif align="right"]]
I'm not being gross! Handout Keep this handout!
 * Point
 * Evidence
 * Explanation

Looking at Your Writing
Discuss issues on the synthesis essays.

Highlighters:
Orange- Thesis Statement (Is it strong?) Yellow- Points (Main idea in each paragraph. Does each one support thesis statement?) Blue- Evidence (Where is your textual evidence? How did you format it?) Pink- Explanation (Did you fully explain your evidence with your own commentary? )


 * Are my points thought-provoking idea that show complex thinking and support my thesis?
 * Do I give specific evidence from the text to support my points?
 * Do I smoothly integrate evidence into my writing using signal phrases to introduce evidence I’ve quoted or paraphrased?
 * Have I put quoted evidence in quotation marks and attributed the source?
 * Have I thoroughly explained my idea, showing how the evidence supports my point?

Journaling Tips
Let's make sure you are ready to journal this year!

Homework
Read! Journal! I will be out on Monday. You will have a group assignment to do and an individual analysis to write and post. Each group will present its assignment on Wednesday.