1. Yesterday, the students and I began the task of writing an essay together from start to finish. We went through all the necessary steps of 1) brainstorming for ideas on the topic, 2) choosing the three best topics to write on, 3) begin with writing the body paragraphs, 4) write the introduction near the end and 5) the final paragraph or conclusion. The hope with this project is that by going through the writing process from the very beginning, it will help students understand the writing process and also help them see what goes into writing proper paragraphs. As I mentioned in class, there are two things to concern yourself with when writing an essay – one of them is the actual content of the essay, what your are explaining or analyzing, but the second and equally important concern is the organization, its structure. There is just a certain way an essay should look, to the reader, and having that part down pat will help them in their future essay writing immensely!
2. Once we finished the rest of our essay, we just had a few minutes of time to kill so we re-watched a video we had formerly watched making fun of affirmative action.

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