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ELA B10: Ap 17 Smoothly integrating support references into essay writing…
- Students have recently reviewed some of the aspects of Essay Writing, such as the importance of brainstorming, choosing three topics for the essay’s content, the proper organization of that essay and how to formulate a proper thesis statement. They began the outline or draft for their literary essay yesterday, but before they get too far into the writing of their paragraphs, I wanted to review or teach how to add supporting evidence to your own writing. This is a task that many people struggle with so hopefully we can ward off these problems in their essay as they continue soon.
- We looked through a handout through the projector. There were do’s and don’ts, some examples of integrating references and then eight questions for them to try. (Things were a little unsettling for them because I didn’t have the pages copied for them before class, so we lost a bit of time because of that.) For the assignment, though, students were given a handout with photocopied pages from the novel, Of Mice and Men. For each question, there was a page given that had references somewhere on that page that suited the sentence topic. Their task was to find a phrase or sentence from that part of the novel to integrate into their sentence on that topic, thereby practicing the job of integrating references into writing. They got a good start, but we’ll likely review and move on in our next class together.
Here’s the handout – page numbers may differ, depending on which version of the novel you have. integrating-references-into-your-writing.doc