Drafting Feature Article

Please get your netbook when you arrive.

Please read quietly while your netbooks are powering up.

Today you continue drafting your feature article.  Use your time wisely to make significant progress each day this week.

TODAY please make sure that you save your draft as Period ___ Feature Article and SHARE it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com)

NOTE:  As you write, remember to cite your sources.  If you are saying something that is information from another source, then indicate that by writing "According to (person's name) . . . ."

You will list your works cited at the end of the article with proper MLA citation. 

Drafting Feature Article

Please get your netbooks when you arrive.

While they are powering up please read your independent reading book.  

 

This week you will be working on drafting your feature article.  You will have class time each day.  The final draft of your article is May 31st.  Next week the plan is to share your article with other students before submitting a final draft.  It is important that you are prepared with your completed draft for Wednesday of next week (May 29th).

Please save your work in GOOGLE DOCS as:

           PERIOD __  Feature Article

 

REMINDER:  Your final for this class will be a 3-5 min creative presentation of your topic. 

Expert Project

Please get your netbbook when you arrive

Please read as your netbook powers up.

 

Today you will continue researching your topic.  You will begin drafting your feature article next week.  By then hopefully you will have a body of research to organize around an idea or perspective.  Your work today (summarizing your research) will result in a blog post.  

 

NOTE:  Complete your interview either in person or with an online source.  ALSO, start planning your creative presentation which will be your final.

Expert Project

Please get your netbook when you arrive

Please read quietly while your netbook is powering up.

 

Today you will continue researching your topic.  By the end of the period you will have posted on your blog the results of your work today: summarize the material that you read today.  Provide the URL of the site and create a citation.  For your feature article, you will show citation for 8-12 articles.

 

Reminder:  in your feature article you will include the results of an interview that you conducted either in person or from an online source.  If your interview is in person, it needs to take place as soon as possible.  We begin writing next week.You will work into your article 3 to 5 quotes from your interviewee.

 

NOTE:  I am checking blog posts for May 9, 15, 16, 17

Expert Project Research

Please get your netbook when you arrive.

While the netbooks are powering up, please read your independent reading book.  Note: Your two book reviews are due June 6.

Expert Project Day (and the rest of the week) -- For the rest of the week you have the opportunity to make significant progress in researching your topic.  Remember, you need to have some idea about your topic -- a purpose.  This will be your perspective.  Please describe your research (summarizing an article with URL, etc.) in a blog post.  I should see a blog post for 5/15, 5/16, 5/17.

FEATURE ARTICLE will be due MAY 31.  We will begin drafting the article next week.

Article: "Welcome to the United States Border"

Please begin independent reading at the bell

1.  Article:  "Welcome to the United States Border"

     For a second reading of the article annotate for the following:

 

     * Modes of Writing (narration, exposition, definition, description, comparison)

     * History or background

     * In-depth examination

  

      Questions are also to be completed.  You are working quietly on your own today.

 

       EXPERT PROJECT WORK tomorrow.

Article: "Welcome to the United States Border"

Please begin reading at the bell

(We do not need netbooks today.)

1.  Note:  Regarding your expert topic, continue researching your topic for homework.  Summarize your readings on your blog and provide the URL for the website.  Begin planning how you will write your article.  Refer to the assignment rubric.

2.  Article:  "Welcome to the United States Border"

     READING THE ARTICLE:

     *Work with a partner

     *Decide together how you will "chunk" the text

     *Read the first chunk quietly

     *Discuss with your partner the main ideas and/or ideas

       that caught your attention.  What stands out?