Greetings, everyone. So now that we have launched our blog, let’s broaden the network of the conversations. As I told you in class, in addition to responding to one of my post, this week you are to begin responding to another blogger. Just remember the protocols of online discussions as you talk about the topics.

If some one is trying to annotate a text they have to: Read and reread the text and scan through the text quickly the first time, just to get a sense of its contents. Then they have to start annotating, circling or underlining important, interesting or surprising passages. If I had to explain this process […]

For our daily journal prompt today, I asked my students to explain in detail what a rhetorical précis is without looking at their notes. This is one of the strategies in the common core that is both novel and challenging for them. In addition to being very structured and precise, it requires the writer to […]

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