Making Your Case: September 7, 2016

Focus: How do we use evidence to make our case?

1. Warming up with suspicious objects and using them to make a strong case

• The crime: The portable classroom has been stolen.

• The primary suspect: Ms. Leclaire

• The only piece of evidence: The utensil on your desk

• You have five minutes to make your case.

2. Offering you a brief mini lesson on using lead-outs to make your case (click HERE for slides)

• Taking the blank sheet of paper challenge with one of your numbers and one of your quotations.

3. Drafting and conferencing, drafting and conferencing

P.S. If you're needing more help with yesterday's lesson on lead-ins, click here for a student sample from last year with amazing lead-ins (highlighted for you).

HW:
1. By tomorrow, your body paragraphs should be largely completed. We will have some fun with introductions and conclusions in class tomorrow. 

• The complete rough draft is due before class this Friday, Sep 9.

• We will publish your final drafts in class on Friday, Sep 16.

2. If you haven't yet done so, please sign up for a conference by clicking here.

3. Wanna buy Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? There's still time! We start in one week.