Writing 1: Writing 2 Class Notes

Writing 2 Class Notes–Week 13 (12/5)

Hello All!

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel and I cannot believe this semester is coming to a close–that means we are starting to wrap things up.

The subject of our final Quick Write this week was: hair. As usual, they brainstormed some clever writing topic ideas!

For Grammar, we had our last part of speech presentation: prepositions. They did a great job with the teaching! They organized a fun Kahoot game to practice the concept and rounded it out with a worksheet. As usual, they have two worksheets from me as homework and they should complete the last evaluation for this group’s presentation. We are now finished with IVAN CAPP–next week we will do a review before the Fall Grammar Test.

For Writing, the focus today was on sources for our last assignment. We went over some ideas on Victorian inventions last class and, over the break, they were to look for 3-4 suitable sources on the topic of their choosing.The homework was to bring the physical copies of them today. For this class, we will be using MLA style to compose a type of bibliography called “Works Cited” page.

After a slideshow on MLA style 9, students got into table groups and were given a folder with instructions and sources. They worked together to format the more common sources like books, websites, podcasts, movies, and YouTube videos. Though students don’t need to memorize the formatting rules, they do need to be familiar with them. It is super important to give credit to the original source–they don’t want to accidentally plagiarize–and the good folks at MLA have helped to standardize how that credit should appear on the page. On the slideshow we looked at a few online places to help them cite any source.

We looked at the checklist for our last composition of the semester. It is the same process as we just did on Victorian Christmas, but this time, they have chosen the subject (a Victorian invention), the topics, and the sources. This composition will be three paragraphs instead of two. We quickly reviewed the process:

1. Generate a list of possible topics that are common across all 3 of your sources

2. Choose 3 of those topic ideas

3. Take the first topic you chose (Topic A) and make one (shorter) source outline from each source--there will be 3 source outlines on that topic--one for each source.

4. Choose the best of the best from your source outlines and fuse them into one fused outline.

Repeat that process two more times (for three paragraphs in total.) If it helps, use a big piece of paper like we did in class. I haven't posted the Checklist yet, but it's all 5 Dress-Ups and the #2 sentence opener and the topic-clincher rule.

The outlines are due next week and the compositions are officially due 12/19–the last week of class. I told them it would be wise to turn it in early. That way, they can get feedback from me to avoid getting it marked “In process” at the end of the semester.

Blessings on your weekend!

Mrs. G

Homework

Prepositions–1

Prepositions–2

Prepositions Evaluation

Source and fused outlines on a Victorian Invention

–Composition due 12/19

Summarizing Mult. Refs–Victorian Invention