Response essays

You took a look at the marks for your response essays; hopefully they were useful.  Anyone who received an "R" needs to revise their essay and re-submit it for a grade.  As we discussed in class - your most difficult issues were with understanding the content of the essay.  So we worked on McCall for your first response essay.

To work on your response essay we moved through the following process:

Reviewed the main ideas = supporting discussions in McCall's essays
Looked at a "model" response essay (in your text book) and talked about what the author did in each paragraph
Looked at the assignment sheet
Did some invention writing.  You did someblindwriting, followed by writing to identify ideas in the blindwriting that would work for you,.  Then you listed:

• your main idea, 
• how your main idea connected to McCall's main idea 
• points from McCall that you would need to include in your summary to set up your essay

Next - you went back to review McCall's essay to make sure he said what you thought he said, did some writing to identify and organize what you had to say back to him, and started on your draft.

Finish your response to McCall for Thursday, and read through L&J one more time!  You will work on your response to L&J during the second half of class on Thursday.

For Thursday:
Write: Finish your response to McCall; in the email you use to turn it in - let me know if you'd be willing to let the class use your essay for practice feedback.  I will take your name off before I put it up on the screen or make copies.