LISTENING TASK
Tomorrow we will begin looking at your Frisbee essays. Please make sure that you have a copy in your network folder for tomorrow.
LISTENING TASK
We talked about writing from a tree map providing a good organizational structure, but at the same time perhaps making our writing sound formulaic and choppy. We went over some revision ideas using the pieces we wrote as a group yesterday.
Tomorrow we will begin a listening task about last night’s Presidential debate. We will [...]
LISTENING SELECTION
Today we began a new listening selection on the Greek philosopher Socrates. We identified a thesis statement from the task and two questions to help us pull important information. We listened to the selection once and then worked to organized our ideas and details before the second listening, which will happen in class tomorrow.
LISTENING TASK – SAHARA ESSAY
We have spent the last two days working on completing tree maps for the Sahara essay. Tomorrow we will use all of your maps to complete one large class map in complete sentences. You should continue to memorize the Essay Tree Map Template.
LISTENING TASK
Today we looked at the ESSAY TREE MAP TEMPLATE. You will be expected to be able to fill out a blank template by Friday of this week. By Friday of next week you will be expected to recreate the template from scratch.
We also completed an editing excercise on James Forten.
