- Essay due dates:
- Rough Draft: Monday, October 27
- Final Draft: Thursday, October 30 (2nd hour), OR Friday, October 31 (4th hour)
- Substitute teacher today: Choose an essay topic and begin putting portions of your essay together. Using your literature books, create a thesis statement, two topic sentences, and find 2 quotes for each topic sentence (for a total of six quotes). You have the class period to finish the activity. This will be checked for points tomorrow.
Tuesday, October 21:
- Check essay brainstorming
- Notes: Introduction, Body Paragraph structure, and how to write a Counter-argument/Refutation
- HW: Write a counter-argument statement for Body Paragraph #3. Due tomorrow.
Wednesday, October 22:
- Check counter-argument statements
- Pass back and go over Act IV quizzes and group body paragraphs
- Receive essay outline packet. Take the elements that you wrote and transfer them to the appropriate places in the packet. Continue to work on filling out the rest of the outline packet. This is due by the end of the hour on Friday.
Thursday, October 23:
- MLA formatting/Works Cited page tutorial
- Continue to work on essay outline packets
Friday, October 24:
- Finishing working on your essay outline packets. The completed packet must be shown to me by the end of the hour for points. Keep the packet and use it to type your essay over the weekend. Rough Draft due on Monday.
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