September 29th: Assignments and Homework

In-Class:

• Journal: Answer the following questions about your introductory paragraph:
• 1)What is your claim? Please write the claim exactly as it appears in your introductory paragraph from your homework.
  2)How do you distinguish your claim from the counter argument in your introductory paragraph? Please write the sentence where you do this exactly as it appears in your introductory paragraph.
  
  3)How do you introduce the topics you will discuss later in the paper? Please write the sentences where you do this exactly as they appear in your introductory paragraph.
  
  4)If you could not answer questions 1-3, make any necessary changes to your introductory paper 
• Students did a peer review of each others' introductory paragraphs, answering the same questions from the journal but about their partners' paragraph.
• Students re-wrote their introductory paragraphs in their journals and checked them off with me for journal credit.
  Homework:
  Work on your first body paragraph.