Monday, December 3, 2012

All Boys, All Blogged: December 4, 2012

Focus: Revising your essays and preparing for your final exam/project

1. Warm-up: Book talks!

2. Return early essays and explain revisions for grammar and content

  • All students will complete grammar revisions.  Click HERE for directions and an example.  These are due Wednesday, Dec.12.
  • If you received a 79% or lower, you must also revise for content.  
    • It is highly recommended that you conference with me before you revise. 
    • Please highlight all changes on your new draft.
    • Staple your revised draft to the essay with my comments and the rubric.  Revisions that don't follow this policy will not be accepted.  
    • These are due on the last day of class, Friday, Dec. 14.

3. Overview of your A Long Way Gone project, which will also be your final exam

4. Time to start working on your project

HW: 
1. Continue reading and annotating Chapters 15, 16, and 17 for Thursday (make sure you bring your book and annotations to class each day).
2. Bring your List 9 vocabulary to class tomorrow for review.
3. Start working on essay revisions.

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