Week of November 14-18

I apologize for the delay in posting to the blog this week, I have not been well.
The week was spent working on developing an out line for the Persepolis paper, and turning that outline into a rough draft. All students who turned their rough draft in on time (or late) received the rough draft back with comments.

The final draft due date has been changed to Thursday/ Friday 1/2 December. Students have the opportunity to come in during the Wednesday conference period for additional help.

The extra credit reading assignment was discussed in class. The handout for it is at the end of this entry.

Here are some of the key notes from lectures or in class activities this week.

This notes are about how an outline becomes a rough draft.

Below is a diagram for how an essay is narrowed by it's introduction, and how it is expanded by its conclusion. The conclusion should add something new to the paper, and it should explain how and why the paper is worth reading.

I apologize that these notes are hard to read. This is the process that we followed to have a peer revision conference for rough drafts.

Many students struggle to properly include quotes in their essay. The essay requires both a direct quote used as evidence, and an annotation of an illustration as evidence. Below are notes on embedding the quote properly.

To introduce an annotation use a phrase such as:
A panel on page three shows....
or
In an image showing the devastation of war in the chapter "The Key" one sees ....

Here is the extra credit handout.

See you during conferences, and Happy Thanksgiving!