April 27 - May 1

I hope everyone is doing all right. For those that have had a chance to complete the Discussion board posts, I want to thank you for your thoughtful and insightful comments. It's been fun to see which articles each student chooses for "Wired Wednesday" and read your ideas.

Here's what's on the agenda for the week:

MONDAY B-Day/TUESDAY A-Day:  Offline, work independently. All year we have discussed and debated a wide range of topics, written outline after outline, and even analyzed other speakers' arguments in great detail. Now, at long last, it's your turn!

Last class you chose a topic from the three choices listed on the agenda for Thursday/Friday of last week. Now, take this class session to research the topic if need be, outline a response, and type the outline into sentences, which will be your rough draft.

DRAFT DETAILS: It should be 5 paragraphs long, including an introduction, conclusion, and either a counterargument and/or a paragraph describing conditions or exceptions if you're taking a 'qualified" position about the topic. Use the argument essay rubric as a guide as to what's expected; the rough draft should be a full draft, but not necessarily formatted perfectly or worded perfectly. The citations can just be URLs dropped in for now. We will discuss this on Thursday/Friday's Zoom class, and I'm available via e-mail with any questions sooner than that.

Due: Choose one of the three argument essay prompts you'd like to write about (see last Thursday/Friday agenda for the prompts we went over on the Zoom call).

Homework: Finish writing a rough draft, to be uploaded to Turnitin.com by Sunday night, May 3 to Turnitin.com for comments.

WEDNESDAY B-Day Only: Offline, work independently. Welcome to Wired Wednesday! No live Zoom class will be held today; instead, please choose one article of your choice from Wired.com to read and think about. Complete the typed, Turnitin.com online journal entry question for today under the Discussion tab. We'll reference these in Friday's online class. (If you run into a paywall on the Wired.com site, please use login: mogilefskya@pvpusd.net, password: English.)

Homework: Complete the typed, Turnitin.com online journal entry question described in Wednesday's class work and post by Friday.  

THURSDAY A-Day/FRIDAY B-Day: Go over rough draft requirements, answer any questions about the rough draft of the argument essay that's due to Turnitin.com by Sunday night, May 3. Wrap up the gender unit. Introduce the Raisin in the Sun play, which we will be reading next. Call for volunteers to read some of the parts of the play on Zoom.

Due for B Day only - Complete the typed, Turnitin.com online journal entry question for your choice of "Wired Wednesday" article under the Discussion tab.

Homework for all classes: Finish typing argument essay rough draft, to be uploaded to Turnitin.com by Sunday night, May 3 to Turnitin.com for comments.