Go to THIS SITE and go though the tasks in OPINION ESSAY related to whether criminals should go to prison. These are PREREADING, DURING READING and POSTREADING tasks. PORTFOLIO 16
paste/embed everything onto your e-portfolio.
Watch the video and past it o your portfolio. Write aSHORT DESCRIPTION of the contents of the source>>be careful with PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE!!!!
Work with a PARTNER. Go through the material in THIS LINK. Read the "essay that suggests reasons for and solutions to a problem": WOMEN IN SCIENCE. Work with the prereading, during reading and after reading activities. PORTFOLIO:
Open a SHARED DOC and write an ESSAY following these suggestions.
Title: Gender diversity in Education
Make sure
you have included the instructions, suggestions from the site,
have paid attention to the macrostructure of the text (MOVES!!),
CLASS 17th July- This class was CANCELLED due to an electricity cut.
Watch the videos.
(In spite of the fact that these classes correspond to HOW to teach writing to our students, the material can be applied at ALL levels of proficiency. So, consider these three steps for YOU as writers, too!)
PRE WRITING
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
DURING WRITING
POST WRITING
Create a PRESENTATION with PREZI.
EMBED the presentation in your portfolio. Make sure:
the presentation covers ALL the information from the videos,
PORTFOLIO #11. PART 2: EACH group has prepared a short presentation. Now it's your turn to SHARE your notes.
open a gdoc (PRESENTATION) >>> one per group.
paste your NOTES on the slides (DO NOT paste long pieces of text, avoid Copy/Paste. THESE ARE NOTES!)
add a COVER, name of college, subject, name of students, INDEX, name of chapter, BIBLIOGRAPHY (appropriately cited, last slide ), new examples, QUOTATION MARKS for quotes and aknowledgement for pictures.
send me the SHORT URL of your GROUP presentation (you can choose ANY from the list below, or look up another tool!)
Go through this short presentation for next class: JUNE 18th. Bring Chapter 1 (and if possible, though it's NOT a must...Introductory Chapter)> you need not read it!
As I told you I'm reading on VISIBLE THINKING*. Going on with the topic of Systemic Functional Linguistics, you are going to watch the video and learn more about it. *Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time. PORTFOLIO # 8.
Watch the whole video to find out old/new information.
Go to the OUTLINE (0:27) and use it as the starting point for YOUR OWN GRAPHIC ORGANIZER (mind map, concept map, among others).
As it was discussed in class, the last sentence of the introduction is called the THESIS STATEMENT. And it is the backbone to your essay. Watch the two videos to revise HOW to write a THESIS STATEMENT.
PORTFOLIO:
Take down NOTES to be used to write or re-write your thesis statement.
Paste them onto your own e-portfolio.
Add the videos (optional)
acknowledge source(s)
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Tips for Writing Thesis Statements
1.Determine what kind of paper you are writing:
An analytical paper breaks down an issue or an idea into its component parts, evaluates the issue or idea, and presents this breakdown and evaluation to the audience.
An expository (explanatory) paper explains something to the audience.
An argumentative paper makes a claim about a topic and justifies this claim with specific evidence.
The claim could be
an opinion
a policy proposal
an evaluation
a cause-and-effect statement
an interpretation.
The goal of the argumentative paper is to convince the audience that the claim is true based on the evidence provided. If you are writing a text that does not fall under these three categories (e.g., a narrative), a thesis statement somewhere in the first paragraph could still be helpful to your reader.
2. Your thesis statement should be specific—it should cover only what you will discuss in your paper and should be supported with specific evidence.
3. The thesis statement usually appears at the end of the first paragraph of a paper.
4. Your topic may change as you write, so you may need to revise your thesis statement to reflect exactly what you have discussed in the paper.
