Erica Albanese

Class Thursday March 21, 2013

We began class by talking about our papers, specifically the introduction and conclusion. Ms. Lang chose five students who had good drafts to stand up in front of the class and discuss what they are doing it on and how they got there. We each had to ask one of the five people a question about their paper.

Ms. Lang then told us, despite our belief, that it actually IS possible to write a ten page paper. She strongly suggests using the Reading and Writing center, which I did and helped me tremendously.

The introduction of your paper should include a thesis and a hook. A hook can be a fact, a quote, a question, really anything that will draw a reader in and make them want to read more.

The conclusion should be a summary that “ties up lose ends” or restates the thesis. It should include a “so what?” Why does what you wrote matter? How does it effect the future? What does it all mean?

The next thing we did in class was get into five different groups and list in order the ten most important things in the paper to us. We then collaborated as a class to help create the rubric for this paper.

Homework: ESSAY DUE 3/26!!!

I chose to focus mainly just on what we did in class that day. I decided to do that this way anyone who was absent has any easy way too look back and see what we did that day. I did it this way because I feel like that is most helpful. The other media I chose to use were the pictures above. I chose this because I thought it would help make it a little funny and just give a good visual effect. My role as class blogger did not so much change my perspective of the class room but more so it just made me notice small details and remember things that I wouldn’t have remembered or noticed had I not been the class blogger.