Editing How-to-Tell Essay

Wednesday 21 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 22 March for Periods 1, 2, & 7

Membean Vocabulary Drills:  10 Minutes

Vocabulary Test
Students took an individualized 20-question test through Membean of words they have studied.

Submitting Three Definitions Paper
Students printed out a final draft of their three-definitions paper if they had not done so at home and stapled to the other papers completed in the process of writing the paper:

Final draft (on top)
Peer edit sheet
Revised draft
Peer critique sheet
Rough draft (on bottom)

Students also uploaded their final draft to Turnitin.com.

Editing How-to-Tell Essay
Students swapped how-to-tell essays with a partner and completed a peer edit sheet for their partner's essay.

Students began any necessary changes to their how-to-tell essays.

Process Journal Entry
Students reflected on the process of writing the three-definitions paper in an entry titled "On Writing Three Definitions."

Their entry should consider the following:

--What did you learn by writing this paper?

--What part(s) of the process was/were most helpful to you?

--Which part of writing this paper was most difficult for you?

This journal entry should be one-half-a-page long in MLA format.

Homework: Complete any further changes needed to create the final draft of your how-to-tell essay.   Finish writing the process journal entry if not completed in class.   Study for the nonfiction terms test.