Block Day, Week 28: Two ICE's

* Pray

* ICE #1: Austen: Passage-based format

* ICE #2: Austen: Open-prompt format

Per. 1 and 3 will start 5 min. after the tardy bell.  Per. 6 may start before the tardy bell but not before the first bell.  

How do I get a higher score? For most, provide ample

1. Textual support. Your statements are probably correct, but does each have a specific support from an event or conversation? Let, "for insance," be your motto, even though we won't write those words so often.

2. Development. If you don't get much down on paper, there's less room for you to make a good case.

3. Intelligent word choices and phrases.

4. Sentence variety.

5. Slip in literary elements connected to your thesis and text whenever possible.

Format:
- Pen
- Single space
- Write on the front of each paper
- Plan for 2-4 minutes before your write the essay
- Don't forget your thesis (first sentence or last sentence of first paragraph)

HW: CWP Due on your Next Block Day

Wednesday, 2/22: Austen

* Opening Assignment: Compose two example sentences with a semicolon with the subject of good or bad manners. 

* Leithart and Austen continued


HW: J35 Choose any Thought Question (from either set of questions) to answer in a well-developed paragraph (10 sentences; sweet punctuation and thought). 

Tuesday, 2/21: Austen

* Opening Assignment:

Review this Family Diagram

* Austen

* Deric (p6): Please see me about an electronic device question.

HW: Leithart