BEFORE CLASS:
Have a hard copy of FE#5 to use in class.
Class Activity: Writing Workshop Directions
- Switch papers with a family member. Put your name on your partner’s paper.
- For each concept of the paper, we will move through as a class and edit together.
- strategic/divisive introduction
- Does it get the reader’s attention?
- Does it set-up the thesis?
- viable thesis (the claim)
- Is the claim clear & appropriate?
- Yellow highlight the sentence you believe to be the thesis
- exemplary moment
- Each paper’s BEST point or evidence should be highlighted in GREEN.
- At the bottom, explain why you chose this moment.
- evidence of reasons for claim
- Highlight the paper’s BEST evidence in PINK
- Highlight the paper’s WEAKEST evidence in LIGHT BLUE
- well attributed & cited
- Are all the sources credible? Are any scholarly
- strategic/divisive introduction
Joe Costal 