Final Version Summary/Response Due

Your papers are due.

We talk some more about the Five Paragraph Essay.

You write a practice essay.

On Wednesday you will have the class period to write a final in-class essay.

Draft #2 Summary Response

We look at introductions. How is yours?

You read drafts.

Then we talk about the five paragraph essay, and look at an example.

Homework:

1.  Bring the Final Version of your Summary/Response paper.

2.  You will turn in your daybook then.

Draft #1 and Grammar Final

You take the Grammar Final.

Then you read drafts.

Homework:

Draft #2 is due Friday.  Use the comment sheets to help you know what is needed in your paper.

Summary/Response Fri

Check Comma Tests.

Look at Summary/Response.  We mark your copies of the reading up.  Then you get the assignment sheets for Summary/Response. You have already created rough drafts.  Now is the time to start turning them into the First Draft, which is due on Wednesday.
Grammar practice.

Homework:

1.  On Wednesday bring Draft #1 of your Summary/Response to "On Dumpster Diving."  It must be typed.

2.  Wednesday will be the Grammar Final.

Summary/Response

We correct page 233 in Brushup.

You work on pages 91-94.

We look at your summaries.  Do you give his name and the title of the essay?  List the main points on the board.

Time to freewrite:  what is your reaction to Eighner's information?

Practice quiz.

Homework:

1.  Write one or two paragraphs of your opinion about the article "On Dumpster Diving."  Comment on some of the details in his essay  and the ideas he shares.  Bring it Friday, either handwritten or typed.

2.  Do Tests 3 and 4 pages 97 and 98.

Summary/Response

We check grammar work.  You do some in-class tests.

We look at Seeing the Pattern, writing a summary.

I hand out the new version of "On Dumpster Diving" and you read and annotate it.

Homework:


1. Bring a one to two paragraph summary of the handout version of "On Dumpster Diving" to class.  It can be either typed or hand-written. Have your annotated copy of the article with you.

2.  In Brushup do page 233.

Final Version Comparison Essay Due

Hand in your papers.

We discuss pronouns and you find them in your old papers.

We work on Test 1 and 2 on pages 85-86.

We look at "On Dumpster Diving" again.

We check Wednesday's Review Quiz.  You do another Review Quiz.

Homework:

1.  Do Tests 3 and 4 pages 87-88 in Brushup.