Thursday, October 17 - Classwork

Today in class, we continued discussing quoting and citation in writing, began discussing introduction and concluding paragraphs, and finished off the class by working on our summer reading essays.

We started off class by discussing dialogue options, including:

• Paraphrasing: to shorten, USING your own words
• We can do this in our writing by knowing the context and picking the parts of the sentence/phrase that help support the context.
• Block Quotes (not ideal...but an option)
• Block quotes still include citations at the, but are full chunks of conversation that are inserted in our writing, rather than integrated into our writing in pieces. 

Next, we discussed some other essay necessities, including:

• Introductory paragraph - Paragraph that INTRODUCES, or presents through background. Your intro paragraph should always include:
• Opening line (academically introduces the point of the paper)
• Necessary nouns (what the reader needs to know, based on what you will reveal in the essay)
• Thesis statement (what are you trying to prove and how)
• Conclusion Paragraph - Paragraph that CONCLUDES, or ties a bow on it. Your conclusion paragraph should always include:
• Reinforcing relationships between points
• Justifying the experience by connecting to PURPOSE
• Purpose, or SO WHAT???

And finally, after obtaining all of this valuable information, we were able to put it to use by getting independent work time to work on our summer essays. Thanks Mr. Rivers!