Assertion Essay planning details

Today, we spent time reviewing the ways we pull ideas for support in the Q3 assertion essay.

You made a list of reading experiences from this year that you know so well that you could use them as credible supporting examples for your ideas.  Credible means knowing the title, author, and specifics references (not direct quotes) to the piece.

Ideas included speeches and articles we have read, books we have read this year (including the summer autobiography, To Kill a Mockingbird, social issues book, etc.), and pieces we have read as a class (such as Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", Frederick Douglass' "Learning to Read and Write", etc.).

Then, we also discussed the ways to use our worldly knowledge and previous learning as supporting examples as well.

We spent 30 minutes planning to the most recent Q3 prompts from 2015, 2016, and 2017.