Dear Students
Happy Leap Day, everyone! In honor of leaping around in time, our Quick Write was about time capsules. We watched a short video on the opening of a time capsule buried by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere in 1795. Students had three options to choose from on this topic.
For Writing, students we had a productive session of Peer Review on the Rough Draft for their Urban Legend essays. I am impressed because these students have made a lot of progress on learning and using MLA Style in-text citations and compiling a Works Cited page. Today, we looked at another example of such a page. I showed them how to refer to a slide show that’s posted on our Classwork Page on that topic. We discussed some insightful questions on details of how to cite things like YouTube videos, figures and what to do if your source doesn't totally pass the CRAAP test. As an answer to that last question, is that it’s OK to use a source if it doesn't’ pass the CRAAP test 100%. HOWEVER that source will be a weaker one. If you do decide to include it, you need to have other stronger sources to add credibility to your essay.
After you get feedback from me on your Rough Draft, you may revise and turn in your Final Draft on 3/14.
After that, there was a teaching on the “controversial” topic of the Oxford comma in Grammar. Surprisingly, students had some strong feelings about this! We learned that although the Oxford comma is really a style issue and is actually optional, mostly only the British and newspapers omit it. I personally like and encourage the Oxford comma for readability and so that you don’t have to rethink this issue every time it comes up. We also talked about where a comma goes in a series of adjectives. We had two worksheets on this topic that most students completed and corrected in class.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have time for a robust Literature discussion over the stories assigned from last class. I hope we can revisit those gems next week. The next batch of short stories was assigned along with a Short Story Packet. Make sure to read all of them–there’s a strong possibility of a “pop” quiz next week!
Homework
Urban Legend Rough Draft (if you didn’t get it turned in today!)
Read: Twain (175); Jewett (87); Tolstoy (169); Checkhov (26)
Short Story Packet #1 (choose 2 stories to respond to; one side for one story and the other side for the other story)
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