Claude Mckay Quick Research

We need to take a break from Gatsby and do a quick side project.  Needs to be finished today.

1. Work with your writing group. 
2. Create a new document for your answers to the questions below, (share it with each other and me.) 
3. Divide up the questions as you search out the answers.
4. Write about what you find in complete sentences so they will make sense to the other members of your group. 
5. You should include a citation with EACH answer. Use Easybib or Citation machine.
6. Copy this work for yourself into your English Journal.

Writing Groups

Good morning,

Yesterday we tried adding detail to a simple sentence. You practiced with your own sentence. Today you will meet with your writing group.

I'm going to show you how to add your paper to your shared group folder. A few of you haven't shared your paper with me yet. (That was bad for your draft grade by the way.)

Writing Group Procedures

Making a study guide for the final, collaboratively.

Still looking for THEME and EVIDENCE

Good morning,

Your homework last night was to read "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. Today you will work with your writing group to read it again. I put a copy of it in your writing group shared folder. Open docs and go to your shared writing group folder.

Work together to:

1. Find the theme of the story (try to agree on one)
2. Highlight evidence from the text to support your opinion.
3. Insert comments about the things you highlight to explain why you think those parts are evidence.
4. In your own English journal write a paragraph to explain the theme and the evidence you found to support it. (Your group can work together on the thesis.)

Great Job!

Best first day of writing groups EVER!

Fabulous job everybody!  I was so impressed with the quantity and quality of drafts today.  Sorry for the phone spam last night, but I do think it helped. (Yay, Blackboard Connect!)

Special mention to Google Docs for adding folder sharing to Docs. With a shared folder for each group, writing groups were able to get started so much faster than last year!

For the rest of the year when you need to share something with your writing group just add it to your group folder and your writing group members will be able to see it.

Friday Afternoon

Great job today on your first writing group experience.
Thoughts to take away.

• When you read your work aloud you find things (mistakes) you would probably never have noticed.
  
• When your group talks about what's working and not working in your paper you get ideas about what to change to make the writing better.
• Reading out loud is not as scary as you thought it would be.
• Your group liked what you wrote.

Monday: Looks like more writing group time because you asked for it.