Week 4 – Unit 3 Pop Icons and Heroes p. 50-56

Essay 1, Edit Review In-class editing task: Read your essay out loud As you read your essay, underline (pencil if you have it) any mistakes that you made (typos, spelling, grammar, word choice).

Exchange Essays Exchange your essay with ONE partner Read your partner's essay Talk to your partner Is there a thesis? Conclusion? Topic Sentences? Do you see clear body paragraphs? What's missing? Write your name and student number on the back of their paper.

Listen and pronounce the vocab Look over the words. Vocabulary p. 50-51 Listen and pronounce the vocab Look over the words. Which words are unfamiliar?

Supporting an Argument Support -using reasons, evidence, and emotional appeal. Reasons – logical, fair statements that back up a claim. Show how viewpoint is best Evidence – Support or verify reasons using relevant and useful facts like statistics Emotional Appeal – appeal to readers' needs and values

Types of Evidence, p 52 Read p 52 to see examples of types of evidence. What did you use in your writing? Facts, statistics, expert opinion, examples, or personal observation?

Practice 52, 10 min Read the sentences and write one sentence that can be used as evidence. It can be a fact, statistic, expert opinion, example, or personal observation. Note: most statistics and expert opinions should be quoted or paraphrased and cited.

Groups of 2 or 3, 5 min Read the sample passages on p. 53. Discuss and decide what type of evidence is being used for each passage. 1) Example 2) Statistics 3) Personal Observation 4) Expert Opinion

Use of Conciseness Concise – or short, is direct language. Extra words are removed. Concise is the idea that short, clear writing is best. Many times writers add useless adjectives or unnecessary words to their essays. Do you? Read page 54

Can you identify concise writing? Look at p. 55 at the top. Put a C next to concise sentences Put a W next to sentences that can be shortened. Do this by yourself. No partner!

In your notebook, p. 55 Look at the 10 sentences starting on p. 55 and re-write them to make them shorter. You have 5 minutes. Now, look at a partner's sentences. Did you shorten them in the same way? Is the meaning still clear?

In 2-3, p. 56 10 minutes Read the paragraph and edit it. One person should write your edited paragraph in your group. Make it concise. Some sentences might not need any changes while others can be significantly shortened. I will collect your paragraph at the end of class.

Homework Read the writing samples from p 56-72 As you read, mark words you do not know and look them up. Do NOT answer the questions in the book Make sure you understand the different writing passages for next week's class.