Words, words...

Mr. Raymer began the period with a warm-up focused on students' favorite words. Meanwhile I checked the homework questions and returned papers. After the warm-up, we went over question 10 from the homework, which appeared to have caused some confusion. Students spent the rest of the period revising their Time Travel Essays based on the following directions:

Revise Your Time Travel Essay, Due 9/21

• Make at least 10 changes.
• Highlight changes or make them on an attached paper.

Basic Changes: Must ALL be corrected.

• Spelling and Capitalization
• Run on Sentences & Fragments
• Have 3 to 4 Paragraphs
• Include Examples from BOTH texts.

Intermediate Changes:

• Avoid you and most I statements.
• Have clear topic sentences with transitional phrases.
• Multiple examples per paragraph.

Advanced Changes:

• Expand Introduction and Conclusion.
• Develop paragraphs by adding discussion/ analysis.
• Add quotations smoothly.
• Consider individual words, especially verbs.

Oh, and if you didn’t do it, DO IT! And then revise it.