Senior+Writing+-+September+21+-+25

=Monday, September 21= = = =Tuesday, September 22= = = =Wednesday, September 23= = = =Thursday, September 24= = = =Friday, September 25=
 * get back pre-tests
 * You're good at this when you focus!
 * ===Today's warm-up===
 * ===you all do well when you're thinking about it!===
 * Finish cover letters!
 * ===When you finish the cover letter:===
 * ===Read the article "Can we Engineer Love and Morality?"===
 * ===vocab for this article:===
 * ===__eugenics__ - the idea that we can improve the human population by===
 * ===discouraging reproduction of people with undesirable inheritable traits (negative eugenics) and===
 * ===encouraging reproduction of people with positive inheritable traits (positive eugenics).===
 * ===ethics - moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior===
 * ===Number the paragraphs===
 * ===Underline essential ideas===
 * ===Write a personal response paragraph on a separate sheet or on the back of the article.===
 * warm-up
 * ===a little time to finish article===
 * ===Turn in article and paragraph===
 * Critical Reading: What's the Idea?
 * Go through new article together
 * ===finish wild fire article assignment===
 * when reading, pay attention to who is writing
 * Is the main subject the author's opinion?
 * Or is the author telling you about someone else's opinion?
 * ===Words Often Confused warm-up===
 * ===how are you doing with these?===
 * ===look at student essay to edit.===
 * ===Read essay===
 * ===Look at editing sheet===
 * ===Write improvement ideas on essay.===
 * =Write one improved paragraph from the student essay=
 * =On same sheet:=
 * =Write two possible thesis statements for an essay you might write on a similar topic=
 * =Share=
 * =we'll make a list for the whole class=
 * =Pick one of the thesis statements.=
 * =Write an intro as if you were going to write that essay=
 * =But we're not writing a whole essay - just the intro!=