Day 19: Last Day! You are an expert!

Friday, February 9
Day 19:  Last Day!  You are an expert!

Objective:

I can make my last tweaks and turn in an amazing paper.
I can reflect on the process

Agenda:

Complete the thesis!  Turn it in on Classroom and get me a hard copy.
Extra Credit if you have time is here.  When you finish, send it to my email.
Reflection is here.

Make Google Doodle for your topic: Bonus Point if it is colorful and reflects your topic!

Homework:

Ha!  Not this weekend.  You earned it!

Day 18: Last Work Day!!! Final edits

Day 18:  Final edits
BLUE: Wednesday, February 7
ORNAGE:  Thursday, February 8

Objective:

I can take feedback well to improve my own paper.

Agenda:

1) Thesis Rubric is here!
2) It is word choice day!    Have your partner spend 15 minutes

• tweaking your language, 
• checking your mechanics,
• Make sure it is all in past tense
• making passive things active.
• Double checking footnotes.

Work time!  Paper due in class on Friday.

Here is the counterclaim stuff.


Here is a guide for bibliogrpahies.
http://www.citationmachine.net/chicago or https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/
https://www.ivcc.edu/stylebooks/stylebook5.aspx?id=14646

Homework:

Finish your Junior thesis for Friday.  Turn it in on Classroom AND bring me a typed draft.


XC:  IF you finish and turn in the thesis, you can work on this extra credit.

Day 17: Peer Editing Day 2

Day 17: Peer Editing Day 2

Objective: 

I can make sure my topic sentences and analysis are excellent.

Agenda:
1) Go to your final draft and write in the What I Need Help With box what help you want from your peer editor today.  Save mechanics and grammar for tomorrow.

2)  Go back to the same peer editor partner as yesterday.  Have them first look through want you want them to help with.  

3)  Then, you are going to look at paragraph breaks, topic sentences, and analysis. Here is a sheet.

4) Read ALL the topic sentences first.  Is each topic sentence an IDEA as opposed to something that just tells the story of independence?  Does it connect to the thesis?

5)  MECHANICS Break!  Double check that all the verbs are in the past tense.

6)  Go to the second to last paragraph.  Read the analysis.  Does it tie to the topic sentence?

7)  Read the paragraph BEFORE that paragraph. Read the analysis.  Does it tie to the topic sentence?

Homework:

1)  Topic sentences and analysis should be perfect by tomorrow.  
2)  Tonight, please have someone at home read your paper for mechanics.  There should be zero spelling or capitalization errors on your final draft.  You have worked too hard!

Day 16: Peer Editing Section 1

Monday, 2/5/2018

Objective: 

I can understand the thought process and organization behind a peer's thesis paper and first section.

Agenda:

1)  Download the Checkpoint 11: Final Paper assignment from Google Classroom.
2)  Copy your rough draft into the document and then fill out a few things you know you still want to work on in the box.
3)  Find a peer editing partner who knows NOTHING about your topic.
4)  Take the Pasternak Peer Editing Pledge.

I PROMISE not to take the comments of my peer editor personally.  I know she or he is only trying to help me make my paper better.  I PROMISE to peer edit carefully and try my hardest to help the author make the best, clearest paper possible.  

5)  Peer Editing -- We are going to be working both on the sheet I give you AND on Google Docs.
Here is the Sheet for Section 1.

Homework:

• Make sure that all of your examples are excellent for tonight.  Look at every context / example.  
• I will check to see  that you have made edits tomorrow,

• Thesis is DUE Friday

Day 15:: Checklist For The Rough Draft

Friday, February 2, 2018

Writing Up That Rough Draft

Objective:

I can finish my rough draft and feel proud of myself!

Agenda

UPDATE:  Ms. Pasternak is out sick Today, Use your time SUPER well so that you can enjoy the game Sunday night.

Your rough draft is due on Friday at 9pm on Classroom.

Here is the checklist in google Doc format.
Here is the rubric.

Intro Paragraph that concludes with a thesis

Transitions  Between Paragraphs:  You can do this as you think best.  

1.  Overall Context:  
• You may have a transition paragraph following the introduction that is a good place to give the historical context of the time and place of the struggle for decolonization.
2. Marking Your Sections:
• You do not NEED to do this if your argument is fluid, but if you would LIKE to, you can make transition paragraphs between your section ideas OR you can just make a Section Header that alerts the reader to a new section, or nothing at all if you think that is best.  Your call.

Each Body Paragraph:

• Should have a GOOD topic sentence that connects the main ideas of your paragraph and ALSO connects back to the thesis.
• Should use footnotes even on sections that are not directly quoted.  If you got the historical information you are discussing in a particular secondary source, just make sure to footnote that.
• Should have AT LEAST TWO, but maybe 3 or 4 examples to prove your topic sentence well.  Do not overuse quotations.
• For each example, you need to provide context in your own words, the specific example, and you analysis linking the example to your topic sentence / thesis.

Counterclaim

• This can go wherever it makes sense, but please highlight it in green.

Conclusion Paragraph

Citations / Sourcing

• We are using footnotes. 
• Use a wide variety of academic sources.
• Our endnotes / bibliography is in Chicago style.  Yes, you can use Noodle tools, but if that feels confusing, just check out:  
• This is a sample paper in Chicago style.  I like to use the bibliography to guide my formatting.  (HINT:  It MUST be alphabetical!)
• I like this as a general resource for how to cite and source.  It is from the Purdue Writing Lab.

Homework: 

Rough Draft Due on Classroom SUNDAY February 4 at NOON. Your final paper should be NO LESS than 1800 words and no more than 2500 words (not counting citations and bibliography).  If you do not have your rough draft in class for Monday's peer editing, you will lost half credit on that assignment.

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Day 14: Writing, Quotations and Counterclaims

Day 14:  Writing, Quotations and Counterclaims
Wed., January 31
Thurs., Feb. 1

Objective:

I can understand when it is appropriate to put a quotation in my paper.
I can put a counterclaim in my paper.

Warm Up:

Make sure that your rough draft is in your shared folder with me.  I will check for completion as a homework grade.

Agenda:

• Discussion:  When should you put in a direct quotation?  How much quotation?
• Discussion of transitions and context.
• Where should your counterclaim go?  It should ideally have a specific source that you rebut.

• Writing time.

Sample Counterclaim Model

Thesis:  Industrialization hurts the people of the industrialized country.

Counterclaim

Does not meet expectation: might not have evidence, might not have counterclaim,

Meets Expectation:  Some might say that industrialization improved the overall British economy; however they failed to take into account that 97% of workers lived in poverty.

Evidence disproves counterclaim by supporting the overall claim of the paper.

Exceeds Expectation:  Some might say that industrialization improved the overall British economy; however the economy only grew X % so that did not really have tangible benefits.

Evidence disproves the counterclaim rather than proving the claim.

Homework:

Rough Draft due 9:00 pm Friday!

Day 13: Keep On Analyzing! Intro and Conclusion

Day 13: Keep On Analyzing!  Intro and Conclusion 

Tues., January 30, 2018

Wed., January 31

Warm-Up

Share one piece of analysis with your next door neighbor.  Get some advice!

Objective:

I can make sure that my analysis and specific examples are complete.
I can write a strong introduction and conclusion.

Agenda:

• Discuss Introductions and Conclusions.  You KNOW how to do this.  Do not stress!
• Work Time on Analysis and Writing.
• Remember that you are only using teensy pieces of quotations.  Make 'em count!

• Conference time as you need it.

Homework

Write introductory paragraph and three total body paragraphs by tomorrow.

But remember, don't do this for your conclusion!

Day 12 Complete Analysis Sentences

Day 12  Complete Analysis Sentences

Warm-Up:  

Go into your detailed outline, and copy it all into the rough draft assignment on Google Classroom/

Agenda:

Discuss Analysis.
Try to complete all analysis sentences by today.  Mark them in pink.

Homework:

Due Class 13 (Tueday BLUE / Wednesday ORANGE):  Complete all analysis sentences PLUS one full body paragraph in class.

Due Class 14 (Wednesday BLUE / Thursday ORANGE):  Complete Introduction paragraph and three TOTAL body paragraphs.

Due Class 15 (Friday):  Complete Conclusion paragraph and all body paragraphs.  Complete rough draft due by 6:00 pm Friday.

Due Monday, February 5:  Final Version of Bibliography in Chicago Style.  (And we will be peer editing, so if you do not have your complete rough draft for peer editing in for Monday, you will lose half credit for that assignment,   Remember that there will be a really important and fantastic football game the night before this is due, so be prepared!

Day 11: Finish that outline! Start analyzing!

Friday, January 26

Objective:

I can use strong writing and analysis to prove my topic sentences AND my thesis.
I can honestly look at my evidence to make sure that it proves what I want it to prove.
I can find new and better evidence if I need to.

Agenda:

1)  If you still need to complete your detailed outline, please do that today.
2)  Double check on the following before you turn in the outline.

• Make sure each of your examples has years associated with them,
• Then put those examples in order chronologically (unless you have a good reason not to.)
• Do all of your examples have SPECIFIC evidence?  If you need help on this, please look at this Specific Evidence hangout.
• Do you miss the forest for the trees?  That is, if there is something BIG (like a revolution or independence or a change in government system) do you reference that either in the Section Intro or in the evidence? I noticed many of you had good hyper specific details but missed the big picture.
• Are you using a wide variety of sources in EACH paragraph?
• Does the source you have contain an author's name?  Make sure you go look for that!

3)  IF you complete that, here is your next step.  On your detailed thesis, write an analysis sentence for each piece of evidence.    Highlight your analysis sentence in pink.
4)  Work on analysis.  We will probably chat through the analysis more tomorrow but either way, here is a handout about that.  Here is the Powerpoint.

Homework due by 9 pm tonight:

Detailed Outline

Homework due MONDAY in class:

At least 5 pieces of your evidence with analysis sentences highlighted in pink on your Detailed Outline.  (Just unsubmit the outline to do this.)