Dear English 10 Honors Students,

 

Before you start your work today, please make sure to pass in both Things Fall Apart rough drafts and your peer editing sheets.  Make sure your name is on EVERYTHING.  Your final draft is due on Turnitin at 3PM TODAY.

 

Today you are to finish all of your data gathering.  You have an entire period to interview each other, research, and transcribe the interviews you already have.  Please make sure to keep the volume inside the classroom low, so that all individuals can have a productive work period.  Tomorrow, you will be outlining your articles, so it is really important that all of your “research” for your article has been completed. 

 

Please find two newspaper articles to read for homework and annotate them, looking at the “hook,” how the journalist included research in their article, and how the article was concluded.  Look at the sorts of transition words used to introduce the evidence?  How long are the direct quotations?  How does the article end? What’s the bottom line?  Both of these articles should be brought into class on Tuesday so that you can use them as a model for your own articles.  I will check these annotations on Wednesday with your article outlines.

 

 

I have also left a note for the substitute allowing the following students to leave class for interviews:

Savannah, Catalina, Sarah, Mahmood, Keshena, Gentry, Henry, Will, Ana, and Sarrana. 

 

Please email me if you have any questions.  I will be available after and before school both today and tomorrow if you have any questions.

 

Take care,

Ms. LeeKeenan