ELA 10-1 Week 6 Content and Assignments *Remember to check Google Drive and Google Classroom on a daily basis!

DAILY SCHEDULE DAY 1DAY 2DAY 3DAY 4 Hand in Essay* (This will end up being our rough draft!) Edit and Revise Essay! Final Copy (Edited and Revised) of Essay Due Today! Thursday, March 26 th, 2015 Poetry Unit Starts! *Poetry Assignment due: Monday, March 30th

What we are learning this week: That (whew!) essay writing is tough work. With proper planning, care, and implementation, writing doesn't have to always be something we pull our hair out over. Revising and revision are important steps in writing. You need to plan out your work. You need to give yourself time to think about what you wrote - to internalize it - and to fix up areas to make it better.

Essay Your essay was due to me at the beginning of this week! We will now go over your essay and revise and edit it before submitting it one last time as our final copy! On the next slide I will take you through some areas to focus on when proof-reading and editing your writing!

Revising and Editing Read through your rough draft to see if there are any spelling errors. Run a spell-check program and check to see what words might not be correct. Read through and check to make sure you have the proper punctuation for your sentences. Do all sentences start with a capital letter and end in punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation mark)? Commas and run-on sentences seem to be a big problem for writers. Placing commas in the wrong spot, or including too many of them in a sentence, and having a sentence go on, and on, and on, can affect how your arguments are accepted. Your thoughts and ideas are most important. Look to make sure you say what you mean. Don't let quotes or examples argue you ideas - explain them. Introduce quote (or example). State quote (or example). Explain quote (or example).

Essay Please make sure you submit your copy of the essay, I will go through and do a quick edit for you, but I would like to see evidence that you are revising and editing as well!

Day 4- Welcome to Poetry! Just to start things off, I wanted to share one of my favorite poems - "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost You have probably heard this poem many times before, or if not the whole poem, the last few lines: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, | I took the one less traveled by, | And that has made all the difference." I enjoy this poem because it talks about the choices we make, and how they can lead us to places we never imagined. I also enjoy this poem because it reminds me of the poem Bilbo Baggins tells in the "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" - a couple of my favorite novels.

Digging Deeper into Poetry Please locate the file “More about Poetry” under the week 6 folder on Google Drive* Assignment: Please locate the file “Poetry Scavenger Hunt” on Google Drive under our week 6 folder. ◦Complete this assignment and hand it into me the following Monday. (Monday, March 30 th )