Persuasive Essay

Good Morning!

*Please get your netbook when you arrive.

*Essay -- Complete your essay today.  PLEASE carefully proofread your writing for mistakes that you can correct.  Please entitle your essay and double space.  Make sure that your name, course name, my name, and date are in the upper LEFT corner of your essay as follows:

Name
Honors American Literature
Ms. Baltrushes
19 December 2014

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading. 

Persuasive Essay

Good Morning!

*Please get your netbook when you arrive.

*Yesterday you had the test on "Writers of the Revolution."  If you were absent yesterday, you will be taking the test today in class.

*Essay -- please work toward completing your essay today.  I have read some good (and completed) essays so far! PLEASE carefully proofread your writing for mistakes that you can correct.  Please entitle your essay and double space.

HOMEWORK:  Persuasive Essay

Test on Writers of the Revolution

Good Morning! 

*Food Drive Contributions will be accepted until Friday.

*Test on readings from Writers of the Revolution -- when you have finished the test please get your netbook and continue working on your essay.  The essay is to be fully completed by Friday.  Work on it for homework.  Get it done!   Please put your name on your essay as follows:
                               Name
                               Honors American Literature
                               Ms. Baltrushes
                               19 December 2014

HOMEWORK:  Persuasive Essay

Persuasive Essay

Good Morning! 

*Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

*Food Drive Contributions will be accepted until Friday.

*NOTE: Test tomorrow on the texts that we have read.  There will be twenty-five multiple choice questions.  Review the assignments on these texts, especially the questions.

*Persuasive Essay -- yesterday you created a NEW document and you named it Period __ Persuasive Essay.   You also shared it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).  TODAY you will continue working quietly on this essay and continue working on it for homework so it is fully completed by Thursday.  I would like to have peer editing on Thursday.

HOMEWORK:  Persuasive Essay

Essay

Good Morning!

I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

*Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

*Food Drive Contributions will be accepted until Friday.

*NOTE: Test on Wednesday on the texts that we have read.  There will be twenty-five multiple choice questions.

*On Friday I passed out to you the Persuasive Essay Writing Prompt, a sample essay, and a listing of topics.  I asked you to make a commitment to a topic over the weekend.  The due date for this essay is Friday but you should have a fully completed draft by Thursday.  Today use the time to research your topic to see other people's perspective on the topic.  Remember, for this essay you are going to need evidence for support.  Take notes.  You might create a document for notes and paste information into the document with the URL.  TODAY create a NEW DOCUMENT and name it Period __ Persuasive Essay and share it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).

HOMEWORK:  Persuasive essay

Essay

Good Morning!

*Independent Reading -- please begin at the bell

*Food Drive contributions?  :) 

*"Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805"  -- for homework you completed the assignment on this text (handout).  With a partner, please review your responses. (10 minutes)
  
*Persuasive Essay -- Please decide on a topic for this essay.  We will begin writing on Monday of next week.  Today, I will give you a compiled listing of topics that you generated before Thanksgiving, the writing prompt, and a sample response to this essay assignment.  Since this essay will require some research for evidence to support your position, I will give you time to accomplish that.

HOMEWORK:  Persuasive essay topic.  Please start researching your topic.

"Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805"

Good Morning!

*Independent Reading -- please begin at the bell

*Food Drive contributions?  :)

*"What is an American?"  --  Yesterday you completed the questions on this essay.  I will collect this today.

*Persuasive Essay -- Please decide on a topic for this essay.  We will begin writing on Monday of next week. I will give you a compiled listing of topics that you generated before Thanksgiving.

*"Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805"  -- follow along as this text is read.  Annotate the text as the text is discussed.

HOMEWORK:  Questions on "Red Jacket . . ."