Friday, October 22, 2010

Friday, October 22 (E10)

Today's Objective: Students will continue pre-writing their Q1 final projects.


Today's SAT Word: Format (n., v.)

A proper layout, to put things in a proper layout

"In today's class, we reviewed the standard format for our end-of-quarter assignments."


Today's Video: "Essay Basics" | Formatting Your Essay

Mr. Meehan has posted video walk-throughs for each stage of the essay writing process on YouTube. These will help you break down proper document formatting, introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusion paragraphs.

To view these videos, visit: www.YouTube.com/MeehanEnglish.




Today's Warm-Up Question:
Today we took a brief quiz to review the formatting guidelines of our upcoming project. See Mr. Meehan to make this assignment up if you missed today's class.


Today's Lesson Notes: Today's class was modified to allow for Q1 Benchmark Exams.

REMINDER: Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.

A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.



Tonight's Homework:

Continue working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:
  • Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
  • YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
  • This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
  • There will be no extensions given on this project.

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