Today we wrote a collaborative essay again. The topic was "inheritance." This time we had four paragraphs: Introduction, Thesis or Pro-argument, Antithesis or Con-argument, and Synthesis or Conclusion.

Students can post the paragraphs in the same location as last week's essay: topical invention.

Students were asked to use: analogies, definitions, consequences and testimony in each paragraph. I assigned different sentence types to each group. Considering the fact that many of the students were new to the concept, the overall essay to come from the exercise was great.

Students have not reflected on the process yet. Make sure you do so.

Homework is to finish the book and bring in a topic we could possibly explore in an essay taking its theme from Evolution of a Revolutionary.

Homework Reminder from Thursday, October 13. I gave students a copy of the assignment:


Reading and Research Homework:

We are on chapter six. Finish the book. Bring in a profile on Afeni Shakur. Look at her evolution over time from childhood, adolescence, as a young adult and as a mature woman who has suffered. Note her accomplishments, her tragedies, things she is proud of and what she still weeps over.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011, bring in a an article from the library database on Afeni tied into a theme you are exploring like Nature vs. Nurture.