Block Day, Week 12: Quiz, etc.

* Pray

* Quiz vocabulary unit 3

* Review your last SAT response.
1. Underline your thesis/position/main idea.
2. In the margin, count your arguments and label them as reading/literature, history, experience, or observation.
3. Circle specfic support you have: names, dates, places, events.
4. Draw arrows in the margin to direct attention to sentences that showcase sentence variety (any semicolons? Any colons? Any dashes? Any compoud-complex sentences?)
5. Circle any words that give clear evidence that you have a mature vocabulary.

Are your arguments well-developed (strong sentences of specific support for each claim or argument)?

In your own mind (you don't need to write this on the page), what would you score this essay?

Now for the next essay.
* SAT Prompt

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

We are often encouraged to stop worrying about making mistakes and advised not to dwell on those we have already made. But without analyzing mistakes—decisions and actions that made a project fail, for instance—how can anyone be successful? Besides, there are some well-known mistakes others have made that seem worth studying carefully. Perhaps these mistakes could have been prevented if those responsible had been more concerned about making mistakes in the first place.

Assignment: Do people have to pay attention to mistakes in order to make progress? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.


Pencil
25 min.
Choose this or last week's to go in as an essay grade

Follow the process again.
1. Underline your thesis/position/main idea.
2. In the margin, count your arguments and label them as reading/literature, history, experience, or observation.
3. Circle specfic support you have: names, dates, places, events.
4. Draw arrows in the margin to direct attention to sentences that showcase sentence variety (Any semicolons? Any colons? Any dashes? Any compoud-complex sentences?)
5. Circle any words that give clear evidence that you have a mature vocabulary.

Are your arguments well-developed (strong sentences of specific support for each claim or argument)?

You should be able distinguish your better essay. Turn your better essay back in to your teacher.

* Read The Hobbit; if you don't have your book, read "The Wing of Dalua" by Hilaire Belloc.

HW: Continue reading The Hobbit, or if you have not read "The Wing of Dalua," please read it.