September 23

ELA 20: Sept 23 “The Rink” read-through and formal paragraph writing…

  1. We read through the story “The Rink” together as a group. Students had read it silently on their own, but it’s a great story and was good to review it for their paragraph writing today.
  2. I asked them to start a fresh sheet of paper and brainstorm ideas for what they thought the object of symbolism in the story was. Some students were a little uncertain about the paragraph they were writing – whether it was a whole essay put into one paragraph. I tried to explain it carefully – that I have an essay on symbolism in literature that I want written and since you always start with body paragraphs, this is just their first body paragraph for that essay. They won’t have to write the rest of it, but this first paragraph is going to use the story “The Rink” as evidence to prove the essay’s point that author’s use symbolism.
  3. We briefly went through a handout that clarified some of the common errors students make when integrating a quote or reference in their writing. The number one mistake they should avoid is “dropping in” a quote, which is writing about the quote you’re going to use, throwing the quote in as its own sentence, and then adding another sentence after to elaborate on it. The quotation has to be integrated into YOUR OWN SENTENCE. We’ll have more practice with it tomorrow.


Posted September 23, 2008 by Waldner in category ELA 20

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