Adeena Schwerd Mrs. Parkoff English 10.2 November 16, 2017 FOCUS CORRECTION AREAS An introduction that includes a claim/thesis statement that takes a clear stance on topic chosen (include the three elements: topic, position, reason): 25 points Note: A claim/thesis has three basic parts: a statement of the topic), a position on that topic and a quick survey of the reason(s) for that position (why you take the position that you do). Examples (4 in total) from your observations, experiences, or literature read to support your reasons (your examples support the reasons you mention in your thesis statement): 40 points Analysis of those examples and how they contribute to your argument: 25 points Conclusion that connects your reasons and examples and gives final thoughts to the reader: 5 points…
Now I could lie and make up stuff that made me like reading and writing but I see no point in that. Honestly I don’t have a lot of memories of reading and writing from when I was a little kid and I can tell you now that football hasn’t helped me at remembering those memories either. With that being said I do remember some memories, some are good and also bad.…
Project #1: Literacy Narrative I remember walking across the lawn from our tiny add on classroom, up the stairs, and into the second grade class. Walking to my assigned desk directly in front of the window, I sat down in front of my best friend. Sometimes, sleepy and tired, I stared at the giant oak tree in our school yard and watching the clouds move. My first experience with writing was in fourth grade.…
As stated in the assignment description, literacy is entirely acquired in context. As I’ve known how to read since my early developmental years, it wasn’t that I was able to read something into much later on. Reading a novel is different from reading an article on a newspaper or online as reading a screenplay is different from reading a poem. When I first started college two years ago, I acquired an entirely new literacy of a digital artifact in a digital media class. In the class, a core project was the development of a professional personal website.…
Reading Literacy Narrative When I was a child, nobody has ever read to me. My father was too busy working, and my mom used to tell me stories by heart, not reading it from books. One day, when I will have my own children, I will definitely be reading to them. I want them be able to listen and start building desire to read on their own later on in their lives. I have not done a good job in my past when it comes to reading books.…
My literacy narrative I turned in last week was not a complicated paper, but I had a few troubles along the way. I had just one main problem and it was the introduction. My comma mistakes and trying to include enough support in my conclusion was not a breeze to do either. Overall, the essay was not hard to write about it was just a few little mistakes that I had along the way that made it complicated.…
One specific time I remember learning to read was when I was maybe 6 or 7 and I was have trouble pronouncing the word “this.” I don’t remember what the title of the book was or what it was about but it was a short children’s book that had a couple sentences on each page. My dad was sitting with me at our kitchen table listening as I read the book.…
This week’s work was focused on two themes that I feel guided my learning to becoming a more effective teacher of writing. These themes included developing as a writer through writing invitations and teaching students how to write effective sentences through sentence combining instruction. Living “The Writing Life” In completing this week’s writing invitations, I really challenged myself to try out different genres of writing in response to the prompt. I started off the first writing invitation as more of a reflective journal of sorts.…
The main point of the story was about my struggles and progress in reading and writing, and this version of my literacy narrative challenged me to have a new view on how to tell this story in a creative and organized…
Initial Reflection In my draft I was most successful in explaining each of my literacy events and connecting them to my theme. I focused on really explaining each event to make sure I was including all of the details but also so that the reader was able to understand how my literacy was formed. In the first paragraph where I discussed how I learned to read, I was going in depth with the details on how it shaped me and how it was really significant to my reading. I think I also did really well with connecting it to the Fishman quote that I used.…
The best writing course ever! I have had many English courses over the past school years with a variety of great teachers but none of those courses could compare to this English class taught by Ms.Lanhem. This course has really expanded my education in writing it has gave writing a whole new meaning to me. I’ve never really liked writing and found it quite difficult sometimes but now when I write I feel stress free like I can just go on forever. I feel as if I can just go ahead and publish it to become an author I truly look at my writing as a work of art.…
Throughout my life, I have never considered myself a writer. Though many teachers have expressed their appreciation for my use of tone and personality through my writing, I have always encountered issues with my choice of sentence structure, which resulted in many grammatical and mechanical errors. This feedback allowed me to achieve satisfactory grades, falling short of the A ’s I desired.…
After completing the Write Experience assignment I was both disappointed and pleased. I was disappointed with my grade. I thought that I was a much better writer than the program was giving me credit for. I was frustrated as I kept submitting my assignment because the final submission was lower than my second submission. I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong.…
I wrote my personal narrative essay about the time my cat was stolen from me. Although I was effective in retelling the story itself, my paper had many mistakes. By revising these mistakes I fixed the grammatical and punctuation errors in my writing and also made the essay easier to understand and more meaningful. Throughout my essay there were several instances where I used the incorrect verb tense, or shifted back and forth between present and past tense.…
The main problem I kept on noticing is that I write too many run-on sentences and so…