Reading like a Writer

Read “Cruel as it is, Somehow we go on”

 

Reading like a writer.

Writing Techniques

Revise 

Your Definition Essay 

  1. according to my feedback
  2. by incorporating at least two Writing Techniques
  3. using the Peer/Self-editing Sheet

Integrating Evidence: Three examples

Botanist, environmentalist, and author Dr Robin Wall Kimmerer shows a unique fondness for moss. She muses that “I think [moss are] really good storytellers in the way that they live… And to me, they’re exemplars of not only surviving, but flourishing by working with natural processes. Mosses are superb teachers about living within your means” (On Being).

Roza’s grandmother tells her “[there] will be boys who will tell you you’re beautiful, but only a few will see you” (98).

Dr. Alexandra Symonds, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, states, “ When you fall in love, you admire the other. You look up to someone, much the way a child idealizes a parent’’ (qtd in Gottlieb).  This is exactly when love first came into your life.

LITERARY PRESENT

Assess the Essay using the rubric

 

Unit 2 Summative Tasks

Today, you will work on your definition essay: “What is love?”

Consider some THOUGHTS ON LOVE.

  1. Review the rubric
  2. Find your planning chart and draft thesis statement (Unit 2 Summative Assignment document).
  3. Decide on what type of planning tool you will use (digital or not).
  4. Get all of your writing and support tools ready
    1. Citation Expression sheet
    2. Introducing Quotes sheet
    3. Transitional words and phrases sheet
    4. Peer/Self-editing sheet
    5. Copies of all the texts we have read
    6. Model definition essay: “Respect” and the questions you answered about that essay.
    7. Definition Essay note.

The essay is due no later than midnight on Thursday. You must also submit: 

  • Plan/Outline (graphic organizer, notes, essay outline)
  • Draft—showing revisions
    • Google revisions
    • Word in downloaded version; use Review
    • Make revisions on hard copy
    • Use Grammarly
  • Peer/Self-editing sheet for definition essay

Unit 2: Story of My Learning  Due DECEMBER 8TH

See Course Calendar for more information

Wednesday: Guest Speakers from

Thursday: Reader’s Notes part 3

Friday: Blogging Day!