English 09: 03.06 - Initial Draft

We began class today with everyone working on the practice sheet for the set 11 roots and prefixes. We reviewed responses to this sheet and then took a look at identifying what the three whats that we reviewed yesterday look like in the introduction to an actual essay. The essay we looked at in class and our notes on it are below.

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In our discussion of this introduction we were able to clearly identify the "what?".

The "so what?" portion of the essay was also present. Some awkward phrasing meant the writing was not as clear as it could have been and made the "so what?" harder to find even though it was present.

We did not feel that there was a real "now what?" element that set us up as readers to transition to the next idea. I wrote in a possible "now what?" portion to show what this could look like.

Everyone then had the rest of the period to work on writing the background section of their essay.

I met individually with students to answer questions about the writing process and to proof sections of students' papers.