Tag Archives: pre-writing

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:

apply

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.

example-apply-texas

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

4/12/2016

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My grades for progress reports are due tomorrow! If I don’t have your obituary turned in by today, it’s going in the gradebook as a MSG assignment!

Pretty easy day today – we just worked on the Bucket List Carpe Diem essay pre-writing.

prewriting stations

There are 12 stations to contemplate. Once you are done with this, you should have a working thesis, quotes, and proof for your essay that we are going to write tomorrow!

You can use the links in Blackboard to refresh your memory on specific facts and character names.

this is your life

I’m *really* excited about Classcraft – a new way that I bring gamification back to my classroom. I spent a little time today creating characters with you. Please, if you have any questions or suggestions, let me know! You are my guinea pigs for next year! 😀