Scored colonialism argumentative essays were returned to students today -- look over the feedback carefully, see me to do conference on your writing, and add notes to your "Writing Notes to Self" page...We begin our next essay on Monday. (Be sure to follow the 4-page criteria to hit the rubric criteria appropriately on this next essay; KCC has a 10-page per semester minimum for earning the college credit.) Time was provided to finish the analysis ("circles" page) on the Dee Brown essay about the Trail of Tears, and then students were asked to assess their own work in discerning individually whether to submit this new page for scoring or to "stay" with their most recent, previous "Reading Claim & Evidence" score. Research will be done on Monday, and today we discussed how to score over the 3.0...for those interested. Writing, then, starts Tuesday.
