In Class:
Review HW: reading strategies, summarizing and responding, “reading like a writer” and identifying rhetorical choice
Homework Assignment (number your answers in the Comment below):
1. Write a 1-paragraph summary of one of Olivarez’s texts (your choice), using the Summary Powerpoint template as a model. Include a quote from the text that you feel represents an important idea. Can you make a connection between his idea and your own experience? Explain.
2. Essay 1 Scaffolding Continued: Use your brainstorming material to write a paragraph about an educational experience you have had in life, inside or outside of a school setting. Your paragraph should set the scene for the reader: when, where, and what, before describing the experience and what you learned in the process. This will ultimately be fleshed out to become your Unit 1 essay (see Major Assignments).
3. Scaffolding: In our next class we will work on transforming this paragraph into an Outline for your Unit 1 Education & Identity narrative. Start thinking about how you would like to tell your story. Where do you want to start, and where do you want to end? What are some important ideas and memories? What are some compelling details you can provide throughout the narrative, to support your ideas? What might your paragraph order be? You could address these questions in a paragraph here, or copy and paste the outline in your Comment and fill in the information there.
