Article of the Week!
React to/Respond to texts in a variety of formats by “reading” them and forming an arguable, interesting, personal assessment. You are NOT graded on grammar- content only! However, this does take into consideration how you deliver that content…
Objectives:
- read a variety of types of text (images, essays, films, articles, poems, stories, and multimedia productions)
- improve your familiarity with how to use the web and its resources
- reinforce and extend your knowledge of how to write paragraphs that are focused, organized, and developed using examples and details
- write about a subject of interest to you and your audience that demonstrates your ability to read a variety of texts with insight
- write with an emphasis on clarity and correctness
Assignment:
- Read the assigned article from NEWSELA
- Adjust the LEXILE SCORE as appropriate so that you can understand the article.
- Complete the comprehension quiz to check your understanding.
- Compose- in STRICT MLA FORMAT- a short reflection on the piece.
- You can write any reflection piece that responds to, extends upon, argues against, connects, and/or elaborates on any point made within the article.
- Establish a clear thesis in your opening paragraph.
- Organize into paragraphs, each with a main idea that relates to and builds on your thesis
- Include examples and details from the text you read; these examples should maintain the focus, organization, and development of each paragraph
- Give your paper a title that helps clarify or even extend the idea of your paper. It should not be anything like, “The Weekly Paper.”
- Show you know how to properly format titles: Quotation marks: poems, articles, stories, essays, songs / Italics: books, CDs, movies, magazines, newspapers
- is revised
- is proofread
Resources:
Log in to NEWSELA to get the weeks’ assigned article
Class Codes are…
Period 1: OAZCU
Period 2: XUHLC
Period 3: PNJLD
Use EDMODO to turn in your assignment
