Friday, Feb 22, 2013

Who are you?

What are you all about?

as a student
as a person
as a thinker
as a media consumer
as a hobbyist
as an athlete

good writing
sense of your personality
idea of you as a student
multimedia (pics, video, music)
spelling and grammar issues (not mark them, I note them)
tone - a sense of overall feeling or mood or a way that the words work to give an attitude

Paragraph - evaluating that video

Substitute Paragraph - about anything where you are evaluating something

NOTE: When we evaluate something we are considering the quality of its ATTRIBUTES

Paragraph Structure -

1. Topic Sentence - restate some point or some question or simply state your view

Body Sentences - what are these? REALLY, what am I doing in here? you are in some way proving that what you said in the topic sentence is, in fact, worth saying - ie it is true and real.

You make a point, then your prove or illustrate your point with a REFERENCE.
Then, you might EXPLAIN how that reference and your point shows that your topic sentence is true and real and valid.

Our Evaluation Paragraph.

I want you to evaluate the teaching style of Mr. Lobb so far. BE HARSH


Today we:

Picked on some students (like Laine and Sean).

We recapped our iPad work on blogs.

We recapped our blogging.

We started a paragraph in correct structure that was an EVALUATION. (in this case, of Mr. Lobb)

And then, we did the work we needed to get our blogs in and on Mr. Lobb's list

Here is a recap of what we've been doing and what is due:

Blog

All About Me

Read those short stories - Charles, The Nest, The Sniper, Ice Bangles.

Can answer questions about character - like the Graphic Organizer

We discussed a way of approaching a story - a process - using RESEARCH! we did this in more detail with Ice Bangles

We want to know about Irony and be able to define it and see it at work in a story and consider it

Paragraph written about evaluating something (Mr. Lobb) -we are looking at your structure - looking for evidence that you know the style

Memoir - a childhood story about Kindergarten (Kindergardiner) - could be blogged

Summatives are in bold