Thursday, October 27, 2016

U.S. History

Finish work on the outline and then begin transforming those ideas and evidence into a written paragraph; we were in the lab.  To aid the process, students' intro "What is History" paragraphs were returned with individualized feedback; add these scores to your skills tracking page.  Add personalized reminders from this feedback onto your "Writing: Notes to Self" note page that we began on Wednesday.  I had everyone also add notes to selves about "tightening" the writing (being concise), using 3rd person formal voice, and using more evidence (show with details).  The score sheet and a helper page "Edit My Writing Now" were provided to the students and discussed.  We'll be back in the lab tomorrow to finish.