Core 1: Extended Write-on: Head over to the computer lab and continue your essay work. Please ask yourself the following questions as you write: Am I proving my thesis? Are my examples and quotations as relevant as they need to be? Have I explained my quotations so that my words …
My daughter was born last October. So, I spent quite a bit of time keeping my daughter happy in the wee hours of the morning, sitting on a red love seat and listening to the podcasts from the first K12 online conference. The podcasts were a way of keeping up …
Core 1: Act-on: Grab a laptop. Go onto morguefile.com and grab an image url for an image that represents your thesis. Start by searching for things to do with your book. Put that image at the top of your essay for inspiration. Work on writing your essay in any order …
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My students are amazing bloggers, but they mostly blog in class. They write about authentic topics (ones that they care about), but they don’t seem to transfer into their home life. Originally, I had envisioned a teeming community of student bloggers who are blogging about their lives, their interests, and …
Core 1: Share-on: Share your 3 quotation rich examples of persuasion with one other person. Have your partner pick your best example and tell you why it is the best one. Revise a few examples with the document camera (revise yours along with the group). When you already have a …