At the beginning of the period, students printed out three items from Google Docs :
1. the book report on a fictional novel (minimum five paragraphs)
2. the film essay (minimum five paragraphs)
3. the banquet reflection journal entry (minimum one-page length)
All of these documents are expected to be in MLA format.
Students then spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.
Mr. Stone reviewed the stages of the writing process on the board and noted that the class had completed the prewriting and drafting stages for the book review and the film review and was currently focusing on the revising stage.
Revision typically focuses on content and organization. To check if each student has the necessary content in the desired order in their book report, the class used highlighters and a pen/pencil to mark a printout of the rough draft of their book report.
Students were directed to highlight the following in their book report:
thesis in purple (located in the next to last or last sentence of the introduction)
preview in blue (located in the last sentence of the introduction)
topic sentences in blue (located in the first sentence of each body paragraph)
Students used a pen/pencil to label the following in their book report:
In the thesis, write "topic" over the title of the book the paper is reviewing.
In the thesis, write "claim of policy" over the recommendation they are making/the action they are telling the reader to take.
In the thesis, write "claim of quality" over the words used to indicate the quality of the book that serves as the basis for the recomendation.
For each topic sentence, write "subtopic" over word(s) that state the aspect of the book used to show its quality.
For each topic sentence, write "claim of quality" over the words in the sentence that indicate the degree of merit of that aspect (poor, mediocre, good, excellent, etc.), or in this case the effect on the reader.
Mr. Stone then described how the students could create a formal outline of their book review to help them to determine if they had all the essential components in the correct order.
He encouraged them to write on their rough draft a Roman numeral I next to their thesis, a Roman numeral II next to the topic sentence of body paragraph one, a Roman numeral III next to the topic sentence of body paragraph two, and a Roman numeral IV next to the topic sentence of body paragraph three. (If students have a fourth supporting subtopic in their paper, they would make that a Roman numeral V, etc.)
Homework: In a new Google Doc create a formal outline of your book report. Include only the thesis and topic sentences at this point. Be sure the document is in MLA format. For now, title the outline "Book Report Outline."
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