This week we spent most of our time on writing out our comparison essays. Having finished most of the pre-writing from last week, we started actually writing out the essay this week. We faced a few struggles as we started to write. The first was actually finding specific examples from the book to back up our argument. The next problem was who was going to write what parts of the essay. Through our pre-write discussions, we discovered that Lauryn remembered Caramelo well, Drew remembered The Waves well, and I was good at leading discussion about what to write. This meant that both Lauryn and Drew could write easily about their parts of the book, while I helped form the ideas the connect throughout the piece. It was really a good example of teamwork. We also had a lesson from our student teacher on peer editing. The basic idea was to focus on the main ideas of the essay, while asking about parts that you did not understand. This is a link to a website that covers many of the ideas that we learned, while providing a few more. I would open this website before I started any peer edit. This was very different from peer editing in previous English classes because they were more focused on grammar corrections. I like the ideas editing much more, as it really improves the core of the essay instead of the “frosting” of it. Beyond the essay, we did not do too much. We had two assemblies, so we had much shorter class periods on both of those days. The class decision was to put the time that we had towards writing. We did however, have time to analyze our poem essays from last Friday. This was very nice, as I felt very uncertain while I was writing the essay. Seeing a well-written essay is a very good way to learn how to write one yourself, so the next poem essay we write should be much easier.
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Andy Schoenborn
9/25/2016 04:22:39 pm
Hi Eric,
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Eric Podolsky
10/8/2016 01:18:27 pm
I have added a link to this and the previous two blog posts. Thanks for the nice comments!
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