• March 3 2015EWRT 200

We had homework! Oh Hell!

AGENDA

In-Class Revision of your essay #4This is the result of combining essays 2 and 3

Based on The Book of Unknown Americans

IF YOU DON’T HAVE TWO COPIES, YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES:

1. Go make two copies and return to class. We can try to find you a partner when you come back.

2. Work alone on your essay now. 1. Sit in the back row.

IF YOU HAVE TWO COPIES OF YOUR ESSAY

Get out both copies of your essay. If you don’t have two copies, move to

the back of the room. Find a partner to work with.This must be someone who brought

two copies. Find two seats toward the front of the room.

ON YOUR OWN ESSAY

Identify your hook by putting brackets around it:

Dressed in a blue tuxedo and wearing dark glasses, he walked onto the construction site. No, he is not the supervisor; Rodriguez is just another man slinging a hammer all day long. His tuxedo and glasses, though, mark him as a man who has defeated the idea of “common.”

Underline your thesis statement.

Underline your Point (Topic sentence or main assertion) in each paragraph.

Draw an arrow that points to your Information: “This will be a quotation or summarized event from the text”

“Circle your in-text citation” (Palmore 2). Underline your E (your explanation and analysis).

Does it connect to your Point? Is it at least twice as long as your information piece?

IN YOUR OWN ESSAY: FOR EACH PARAGRAPH!

IN YOUR OWN ESSAY

•Underline the part of your conclusion that answers the question “So What?”

•Put numbered stars in the margin next to your four subordinating conjunction sentences

1

A SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION JOINS A SUBORDINATE CLAUSE TO A MAIN CLAUSE.

The following is a list of the most common subordinating conjunctions:

MLA FORMATTINGHeader: ½ inch from the top

1” margins top and bottom too!

Title CenteredNo bold or italics

Indent ½ inch

Heading

Right Margin 1”

Left margin 1”

GIVE A COPY OF YOUR ESSAY TO YOUR PARTNER; THEN, TAKE TURNS READING

YOUR ESSAYS TO EACH OTHER

WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED READING BOTH ESSAYS

Look at the questions on the handout. Think carefully about each question.

Look at the essay carefully, and then answer the questions on the handout

Please write on the essay, not on the handout!

Remember, your comments will help both you and your partner do well on the portfolio essay!

HOMEWORK

Revise your essay based on the feedback you got today

Bring one clean copy to class on Thursday.