Tag Archives: brainstorming

1/23/24

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We are continuing our table work to prepare for the essay. Remember last week when we played Jenga with quotes and made flashcards with quotes? We’re working with them today! Each table has a “deck” of cards and three intrepretations of the essay prompt: What is Greg’s transformation a metaphor for?


Decide as a group if the quote works best for the capitalism prompt, the mental illness prompt, or the trauma response.

 

When you are done with this, work on the Classical invention: Transformation brainstorming sheet. The essay is about TRANSFORMATION, so it might be useful to know more about that word.

9/9/2016

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Today, we talked about Apply Texas, a helpful webpage for people who are going to college in Texas. It’s a central location where you can submit one application for a multitude of Texas colleges and universities – and you only have to pay one fee! Pretty cool, right? Right! Some of you might not *need* this essay, and others of you (who are going to A&M) will be writing two of them!

We are writing Essay A:

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This is a very broad topic. So in order to help arrow down our ideas, we did a brainstorming activity in Blackboard. We went over my examples and I gave it to you to use as a model.

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On Monday, we will choose the text structure for the essay and start writing it.