College Madness

Here´s Frank Bruni´s op-ed about the College Admissions process. After reading describe Bruni´s tone.

All Calm

The cancellation of classes on Wednesday in no way changes the due dates that are established. Use this extra day well to ensure the best paper possible.

You must submit in turnitin.com. You must register in turnitin.com. Turn it in to turnitin.com by Wednesday.

The number is 9733250.

Password is linguistics.

Chicago Style Citation

Some helpful examples here.

UNC Conclusions

You can find UNC's guide to writing here.

Research Paper Rubric - Put in your two cents!

Complete the research paper rubric here.

What's Going On?

Tests, tests and more tests, in preparation for our test, will be happening this week.

Just look at the periodic sentence!

MC Exam Monday or Tuesday, and the Synthesis Essay will be completed Friday or next Tuesday in class.

Don't forget to have the first draft of your research paper ready for Writers Workshop this week. The final is due by Wednesday March 25th (midnight the latest). You will upload it to turnitin.com. More on that next week.

Synthesis Scoring Guide

See Synthesis Scoring Guide here.

Researching, Mostly

This week please concentrate on your research paper. You must bring the first draft of your four to five page paper in Chicago Style next week for Writers Workshop.

Don´t forget to bring in your revised bibliography for Writers Workshop.

Also, you and your reading partner should create a reading goal calendar to finish your book before Semana Santa.

Finally, we have a full-length mc exam next Monday or Tuesday (whenever we meet).

Passive Voice Video and Exercises

Complete these exercises. 

Chicago Style Citation Overview

For more about Chicago Style read this.

Antithesis

You can repeat the minilesson here.

This Week

For Writers Workshop bring in your bibliography with ten sources. This needs to be on paper because it will be collected and graded.

There will be a multiple guess choice quiz about "Letter from Birmingham Jail".

For Friday, complete two annotations on Genius for "Letter from Birmingham Jail".

Also, if you haven't already complete the Charlie Hebdo questions below by next Monday or Tuesday (whenever we meet).