24 September 2014
Dear Parents and Students,
We are working on the Fahrenheit 451 essay now, and the students will use their first handwritten draft to type the paper this weekend – 1st typed draft due Monday (9/29). The revised, typed draft is due Tuesday (9/30).
The Pre-AP students have put in a tremendous amount of thinking, planning, and organizing. They have been able to reflect on their own writing, talk to classmates, and meet one-on-one with me. Instruction has focused on careful composition of the thesis statement, topic sentences that state the main idea, giving background of the storyline, leading-in to quotes, providing strong evidence, explaining how the evidence proves the point, and transitions.
The Vocab 5 Quiz is this Friday.
Tosha Caston-Smith
Pre-AP English 9
Spain Park High School
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