Freewriting 2: same but for a neighbour: edit your freewriting #1 to create a piece of writing that you would be happy to let your neighbour in class read (or write something completely new, or mix the two, it’s up to you)
Freewriting 3: same but for whole class – edit your freewriting #2 (if necessary, if you want to) to create a piece of writing that could be read by the whole class.
Freewriting 4: how did your writing change? Did it change? Which was easier to write? Which was most interesting to read?
Get back your last week’s papers
Random groups of 5-6 students: share your list of possible topics, then say which one you chose & why. Make suggestions, ask questions, give feedback.
Changed your mind about topic? If so, change it now.
Each person told the whole class about their topic ( title only, not reasons)
Freewriting 5: about today’s class.
Hmwk:Comparison/contrast essay draft #1 – don’t worry about format, or grammar, or spelling. These can be dealt with later.
Freewriting 1: 5-6 mins, anything. Private writing (only you and me will read this, no other student)
Txtbk p71D, p72E.
Share your list of possible topics for a comparison-contrast essay with the students sitting near you.
Do Venn diagram exercise comparing the subject of Friends.com p.73-4 practice 3
Choose a topic and start freewriting or making a Venn diagram (10 mins ) about it
Share your diagram/freewriting with your neighbours (10mins): give them some comments, questions, advice, suggestions about their topics, and ask them to give the same to you.
You will get feedback from other students several times during the process of writing your comparison-contrast essay
Freewriting 2: about today’s class. Your thoughts, feelings, questions, comments, suggestions, complaints, anything is OK. This is private writing.
Homework:
freewriting (10 mins) on why you chose this topic, and the purpose of your comparison-contrast essay.
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This semester, we will use the same textbook, starting from chapter 3.
I have cut up my textbook. I scanned it onto my iPad. Now I don’t need to bring the actual textbook. I did the same with the teacher’s book (with the answers).
We
did some freewriting
looked quickly through chapter 3,
and we read the model essay,
read another model essay about a girl deciding which camera to buy,
freewriting 2: about the differences between the two essays
freewriting 3: comments about today’s class (the readings, the writings, anything you like).
Homework:
Start a list of possible topics for your comparison-contrast essay. Bring the list the list to class to share with other students.
Over the next few weeks, think about what you would like to know, what you are genuinely interested in.
Do not be satisfied with just “something for teacher”.
The essay topic, and the essay you write, should have a value for you, personally.
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Last semester, for Essay #2, many students wrote about the problem of shyness and how to overcome it.
Watch this. In this video, 3 young men in Columbus, Ohio, go out to the mall to practice their foreign language skills. One of them (Moses) has never been out of America. How can he learn to speak so many languages? There is only one way. LEVEL UP!!
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