Are you persuaded by that?

Do Now:  (Answer in your Writer's Notebook.)  What is your favorite commercial? Describe it. What do you like about it? Does it make you want to buy the advertized product? Why or why not? (Prepare to be randomized.)

The Art of Persuasion

Good morning,

Today we begin a new unit on persuasive writing.  To start you will write a persuasive letter so I can see what you already know about persuasive writing. Since the prompt is just one page this time I thought we'd save another 60 sheets of paper by viewing it on the netbooks.  Please write your response by hand on notebook paper. (No typing on this one.)

Persuasive Diagnostic Prompt

To those of you following along at home and wondering what we did Monday, we were finishing the on-demand compare/contrast writing from Friday. (Yes, we have been writing a lot.)

Evaluation Day

Good morning,

It is time to evaluate your essay.  Open your essay in Google Docs and read it over one more time.
Use this Rubric Form to self score your essay.  Use the comments section to explain why you scored your essay the way you did.


After you have evaluated your essay it is time to get started with our on-demand writing assessment. You may write the essay by hand on paper or type it. If you type it you will need to print it when you are done for it to be submitted to me.

You can view the prompt and the materials for the essay as a word doc or ask me for a hard copy of the prompt.  On-Demand Writing Prompt

Absolutely MLA

DO NOW:
Write an imitation of this sentence in your WN.

1.I saw the mouse vanish in the general direction of my apartment house, his little body quivering with fear in the great open sun on the blazing concrete. – Loren Eiseley, "The Brown Wasps”

Good morning,

Lets say your teacher/professor/camp counselor tells you that your paper needs to be formatted in MLA style?

1. Figure out how to do that, hint google it.
2. Make YOUR comparitive analysis paper fit MLA style.
3. Write a post in your WN about how you did the two things above.

Good morning,

   Today you will share your comparative analysis with your writing group.

1. Find the collection in your google docs that is shared with your group. Check "collections shared with me".
2. Drag your Response To Lit doc into that folder
3. Move yourself to your writing group.
4. Follow the writing group procedures.
5. Use "Insert/Comment" to add comments about the papers you read.

Note: Make sure your paper has a full heading, Name, Date, Period (Right justified) and a title (centered)