IEW- Week 19

Time is ticking! We've got three papers left, can you believe it?

Marble Madness is upon us:
1 marble for turning in your paper (or any past papers that you haven't turned in)
5 marbles for a copy and paste picture from the internet
10 marbles for a hand illustrated paper
AND
25 marbles for the "Best Title" (as voted on by the class)

We will be sticking with Unit 7 for the remainder of the year. This week, Lesson 23, is a Level A one paragraph paper due next week.

Next week (week 20) we start a two week paper, Lesson 24, and you can do Level A or B.

Week 22 we will start our last paper, Lesson 25, your choice of Level A or B and it will be due Week 24.

And that's all folks! Our marble jar should be full by then and then we can par-tay!

Don't forget that the point of doing this unit over and over again is to really hammer in the process and organizing strategy for future writing needs. This will create confidence as well as efficiency when they go to pull of those essays that'll be coming their way soon.

Remind them to use those critique words from last week and to make sure that the points they make in their paragraph are backed up with facts from the story. Many of them seemed to be leaning towards the tailor being a bad guy and that's totally fine (from a moral and  Christian perspective I think we can all agree on that) but there is much value in learning to "argue the flip side" or as our beloved Challenge B director always says to play "angel's advocate" to the popular viewpoint. This is especially so for those students who are becoming more dialectic or need more challenge but don't want to do the Level B assignment.

Let me know if I can be of assistance in any way or answer any questions that pop up as you dig in to this paper.

Blessings,
Melissa