Writing Final

Have a restful and safe break!

Sentence Variety

I hand back your In-Class Essays.

We think about sentence variety, and you study your own.  Count the number of words in the sentences in your bluebook essay.  Number them and write the count next to each number in your daybook.  Is there variety?  Do you do this naturally, or must you pay attention to it?

Now do exercise 29.1 with your own tendencies in mind.  You can change this paragraph pretty radically if you wish.

When you are done, hand in your daybooks.

The Last Week

Place your vocabulary words on the board in these categories:


Longest / Shortest / Word I will never use / Word I would like to use / Strangest looking

Then consider the papers that you wrote for this class. They were Observation /Remembering/Summary-Response about an Article / Summary-Response about an Image / MLA-Style Informing.




Answer each of these questions with a paragraph:




1. Which of these was the hardest to write? Why?




2. Which was the best practice for you as a writer? Explain.




3. Which did you dislike doing the most?




4. Which did you enjoy the most?




5. Which would you like to revise some more?




Last of all, think about the use of class time. Explain which two or more activities or tasks helped you to improve your writing or understand the writing process better, and describe which two or more activities were less/not helpful for you.




When all this is done, you may hand in your journal.