Discuss second drafts-biggest problems were not using literacy as the theme for the essay and also grammar issues at the sentence structure level. Whatever we don't get to today, we will can work on in our conferences.
Thesis statements and introductions- thesis statements should mention literacy and unify essay with literacy theme and what the writer learned in their literacy journey. Let's look at these sample introductions and thesis statements:
And another example here:
Life as a military brat was never easy. We were constantly moving, and I never got to callone singular place home for a while. Though I did move around a lot, it was not all bad. I wasable to see so much across the United States. Unfortunately, I never did get a chance to leave theUS, but if my mom was on board with us leaving the states I could have grown up in Germany. Ithink I would have loved it. On another hand, I am glad I didn’t leave the states because I wouldhave never known the people I know now and would have never had the experiences I’ve hadthat built my character. Living in the military not only involved moving but learning its literacy.While living in this community I learned about the military alphabet, military time, and a lot ofdiscipline. Even from a young age we learned a lot of traditions and other things that don'tnecessarily happen outside of a military community.Grammar workshop-fragments, comma splices, run-ons and formatting dialogue. I will be grading for these sentence-level grammatical errors in your final drafts, so please go back and correct all errors that I highlighted in your drafts.
Sign up for conferences in lieu of having class on Wednesday and Friday. Conferences are worth 10 points on your WP1 grade. You cannot reschedule so DON'T MISS IT.
HW: Final Drafts due this Friday by 1pm.