Week 08-W
Midterm Reflections
- What's the most important thing you've learned in this class? Why is it important?
- What part of writing is hardest for you, and why?
- What do you feel you've improved at most, and why?
- How do you approach revision differently now, compared to when you started this class?
- Do you think about writing differently in your life outside of school? How?
- What do you feel like you still need to learn, and why?
Errors and Mistakes
Just because you're good at talking about something, doesn't mean you're good at doing it.
Flobbing sallably, the glotty yofs sambolated in the wickersnacks.
- What were the yofs doing?
- What kind of yofs were they?
- How many yofs are there? One or more than one?
- What were the yofs doing beside sambolating?
What is the proper order for adjectives of count, age, and nationality?
- four
- the
- girls
- young
- French
The young French four girls.
The four young French girls.
Just because you don't know how to talk about something, doesn't mean you don't know how to do it.
Mistakes
- The problems in our sentences that exist because we weren’t paying attention, were focused on our ideas, or were typing too fast.
- We can fix these as soon as we notice them.
Errors
The things we don’t know how to do yet in our sentences.
Even when someone underlines, highlights, or circles them, we don’t know how to fix them.
We can’t just fix these automatically–but we can sometimes avoid them.
The Editing Table
Place your paper upside down on the Editing Table.
Grab someone else’s paper and take it back to your seat.
Read over it quickly. As you read, take note of any corrections to grammar, spelling, punctuation, or MLA style that stand out to you. Mark those corrections on the paper.
If someone else has made a correction you agree with, put a ✓ by it. If you disagree with a correction, put an ✗.
When you finish, or when the timer goes off, bring the paper back to the Editing Table, grab another, and repeat.
Scheduling Conferences
We will not meet all together at our regularly scheduled time on Monday, March 19, 2018.
Rather, I will meet with each of you individually in a 15-minute timeslot either on Friday or Monday. These conferences will be held in my office, Tule 555B.
Targeted Review Time Permitting
Students will locate, summarize, and analyze information from multiple sources, incorporating quoted and paraphrased material in their writing.
Students will write essays that develop a focused point of view organizing appropriate details and illustrations as support to effectively explain their reasoning.
Student writing will avoid grammar and usage errors that distract from meaning, demonstrate correct MLA format and follow conventions of MLA documentation.