- Journal: What was your life like as a kid? What did you love to do? What did you worry about? What were your favorite foods? What did you want to be when you grew up? (10 pts.)
- We read the article, "In Praise of Boredom" and underlined parts that stood out to us. We had a class discussion about the way children are raised in today's world and whether or not children are allowed to be "bored" and explore/create.
- We looked at the 12th grade Common Core Standards for argumentative writing and discussed how it should look.
- We read an example of a student college placement argumentative essay on the article, "In Praise of Boredom" and talked about why it was an effective essay.
- Students split in to groups and read another argumentative piece on school dress code and decided whether or not it contained the components of a strong essay (10 pts.) We didn't quite finish this, so we will complete it on Friday.
Homework:
- Newspaper article on Of Mice and Men due on FRIDAY. Please come ready on Friday because we will be doing a peer review!!
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