I am having surgery today, so please make sure that you do all the assigned work.

The first thing that I want you to do is highlight your essay the way we did the Sister essay on Friday. This is to show you what and HOW you need to revise your essay for details.

You will turn this in the appropriate drop box in Blackboard under Memoir.

Then, you will REVISE your essay to make sure that you HAVE all of those details throughout the essay.

Remember all of the details that we added to the sentence on Friday? You are going to have a LOT more than that because you actually experienced your memoir!

Look at all of those details that you can add in just for that ONE singular sentence. We wrote more here than some people wrote in their entire “essay.”

If your essay looks like this, then you probably need to rewrite rather than revise.

Revising/rewriting should be your main focus for today. If you need to REWRITE rather than revise, use the text structures to help you figure out your organization. It can also help you add detail.

The salmon, blue, and yellow will probably be the most helpful (we aren’t write a persuasive text structure yet).

Lastly, do the persuasive packet that I left. Easy peasy!

See you tomorrow!