September 6

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting* (Take out the book closest to you.  Open to page 55.  The second sentence on the page is your writing prompt.)
• Create keyword outlines form the two sources you chose (George Washington, Tarantulas, or Genghis Khan).  You do not need to write from your outlines this week!
• This is what we learned today:
  • Our first unit focuses solely on creating a writing outline.  You do not need to choose the words or decide on sequence.  Just like an artist copies famous works of art, we will be copying a good paragraph.  And just like the student-artist copies to learn, not to take credit for another’s work, we will use this unit to learn how to take notes, understanding that we’re not creating anything of our own.
  • First, we read our paragraph.
  • Second, we count the sentences and create that many entries in our outline
  • Third, we read each sentence and choose the key words for that sentence. 
  • We should choose 3-5 words (numbers and symbols don’t count toward the count!)
  • We should choose only important words.  Words like the, and, it, to, etc. should not be considered key words.
  • These key words are to help remind you about the content of the sentences.  Each person may choose different key words.
  • Here is what we did in class:

Pearls

1.  Oysters / food / pearls

2.  pearls / form/ object / sand / oyster

3.  causes / irritation

4.  secretes / mother-of-pearl-forming / substance / object / irritation

5.  layers / substance / pearl / formed

6.  Japanese / way / encourage / pearl / artificially

7.  3-4 years / pearl / form

* Complete Freewriting only after you have finished the rest of your assigned writing.