Monday, October 6, 2008

AP Writing, October 2

Lesson:
We went over the timed in-class essays the students had completed, discussing strategies to address specific strengths and weaknesses.

The rest of the class period was devoted to how to write more advanced compare/contrast essays.

Assignment:
Each student will write a five-paragraph, block-style, compare/contrast essay, on a non-literary topic. (The literary prohibition is primarily because these students are so literary already that I want to nudge them out of that comfort zone a bit. Besides, we will be writing many literary analysis papers soon.)

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