Students in periods 3 & 4 met author Karen Karbo. Karen is an award winning author of several very successsful non-fiction works, and several novels. She has published many, many magazine articles. Karen will be a resident writer in these periods courtesy of Writers in the Schools. Students will work with Karen to write memoir pieces for the remaining part of the semester.
Class was devoted to editing the final rough drafts of Lord of the Flies papers.
Writers highlighted the thesis and all topic sentences. Reading just these sentences aloud to a partner was a test of the structure and organization of the paper.
Writers highlighted the first four or five words of each sentence in the paper. Reading these aloud, or writing them down in five columns helped students identify if there was a repetitive pattern of sentence structure in their paper. If there was, writers were encouraged to change the structure of some sentences.
Writers ensured that their conclusions were expansive.
Writers reviewed the proper format for embedding quotes in text by chanting the quote pattern.
Intro the Quote
Quote the Quote
Cite the Quote
Explain the Quote
Here is an example:
Mr. Zartler writes in his blog, "Writers reviewed the proper format for embedding quotes in text by chanting the quote pattern," (www.blogger.com). What he means by this is he made us chant in a silly way to help us learn.
Bob says to Cherise, "'I think we should go home'" (137). What he is saying is that the monster in the woods will eat them if they don't run away.
Notice that quotes in the second example that is quoting dialogue changes the double quote marks in the text to single marks, and adds double marks to indicate that the quote is being quoted.
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