1. The only thing that took up a good majority of the class was a practice activity on developing a smooth way of integrating references (material directly taken from the literature) into your own writing. This specifically is what students will have to do with sentence # 4 on the outline handout for formal literary body paragraphs. (Eventually, when writing, you hopefully will not have to follow such a structured paragraph outline, but to understand what is necessary for a good body paragraph and the order information should be placed, following that guide can be helpful.)
2. I did the first three of the practice questions, with students contributing responses pointing out where the “present tense” verbs were that indicated the sentence was in present tense. (This is another thing to develop or work on with their writing, as in formal literary essays the text is always in present tense.)
3. Students had the rest of the class to do the following questions on their own. Once done that, they could finish working on their paragraph assignment or write out their reflection for the summary paragraph that has to be submitted on the blog. (There’s always something to work on next!!)

Here is the handout they worked on    practice-integrating-quotes-into-your-writing

Here is the copy with examples written on the board    sample-work-integrating-references-in-writing