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4/17/14

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It’s the end of our carpe diem unit! Huzzah!

Yesterday, we did the six stations around the room, and today,w e are using tha tinformation to write a paper over carpe diem and YOLO. You can find instructions in BB in the Carpe Diem unit in the Dead Poet’s Society folder.

The big thing to remember is have a CLEAR THESIS and make sure that you are using the information from yesterday’s sessions – that was the WHOLE reason we did that – what’s the point of pre-writing if you don’t actually USE IT for your writing???

Have a great three day weekend and I’ll see you on Monday when we start our new unit! 🙂

2/27/2012

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Do you know what a hooptie is? Well, you do now! Riley must have watched one too many episodes of Pimp My Ride, because she is telling us that we are going to Pimp our Papers!

Remember on Friday she told us to take our paragraph “nuggets” and put them all into one word document in order? Well, that’s our paper! It’s ok. It probabaly doesn’t look like much of a paper right now, but we are going to turn this Pinto into a Cadillac!

Today, we pimped it out by looking at our organization, our thesis sentence, and lastly, our rhetorical strategies.

Make sure that you are TRACKING YOUR CHANGES in WORD. Riley will be looking at your tracked changes on Friday. There is a DROP BOX JUST FOR TRACKED CHANGES.

Remember – she expects everyone to start out with a hooptie and then turn it into a Cadillac. The tracked changes SHOW that process, much like Pimp My Ride shows the PROCESS of fixing the car up.