February
28
ELA B30: Feb 28 Five quotes and a paragraph…
finding-quotes-for-influence-on-self-paragraph.doc
- We began the class by completing the oral reading of an essay the students read individually. (Often, reading a story out loud with the intended emphasis and emotion can change a person’s understanding or appreciation of a piece of literature. While the students had read the essay themselves recently, reading it aloud changed its meaning for some and made it more understandable what mood the author clearly had through their writing.) We highlighted several sentences that could be possibly used as references or quotes to integrate into an essay in this unit.
- Students were given a thesis writing activity yesterday. This was due today.
- Students were given a new assignment to find five suitable quotes that would be relevant in a discussion on the significance of outside influences in an individual’s perception of “self”. They were to find these quotes using any of the literature we have taken in this B30 course to date. Once they had their five quotes, they were to choose one of them and write a formal body paragraph with a properly integrated quote with the same topic focus – the influence of others on an individual’s sense of “self”. This assignment (the 5 quotes and 1 paragraph) is due typed on Friday.