Announcements and Reminders:
Beware the Ides of March!
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Targets for Today:
I can correctly capitalize words.
I can read stimulus materials to find supporting details to cite in an essay. I can write informational text. |
Today’s Agenda:
1. Capitalization -- Mrs. Hilton Capitalization 2. Writing an Informational Essay: Advantages and Disadvantages A. Practice extracting support from an article. B. Read and extract support from stimulus material for your essay. The Prompt: The Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering Your Prompt:
Write a multi-paragraph essay discussing the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering.
We are using these stimulus materials -- articles:
Handouts:
The Promising Yet Unsettling Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering.docx -- This is an article to use.
Informational GE Essay.docx This is the outline for your essay.
13 Important Genetic Engineering Pros and Cons.docx -- This is an article to use.
If you have information from your science class that you would like to use in your essay, you are more than welcome to use it! For citing, explaining, and showing how a quote or paraphrase relates to your topic, see examples here: Introduce, Give, Cite, Explain, Show How It Relates |
If You Were Absent:
See above for what we did.
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Vocabulary:
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Not used yet:
If time -- a poem
Poetry -- Fast Break -- Basketball (March Madness)
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The Base Stealer (Of course, Baseball!)
Read by the poet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI2eB_1A-z8
Example of a base stealer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck0cq1Rqip0
Help and Enrichment
file:///Users/cdorsey/Documents/Curriculum%202017-2018/English%207/transitions/linking-words.pdf |