Finis the Turn of the Century Unit-Closure Work Packet -- finish for homework if today's work time was not enough to complete it. We shifted our in-class focus, then to the end-of-unit argumentative paragraph on the unit essential question...the Civil War Era E.Q. writing and metacognitive writing was returned to the students and time given to reflect on the feedback and to ask questions. We then set up a sheet of paper so students can each brainstorm possible themes for the new writing while looking through all of their many E.Q. notes and the UCWP. More time on this in class tomorrow and then students can seek help from me if needed on how to take the list to formulate it linguistically into a 2-4-theme thesis statement. UCWP due tomorrow; writing is due Tuesday.
