Descriptive Writing test

26 Novembro 2020, 15:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Lesson 24

25 Novembro 2020, 15:30 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

"I´ll be settling into my accommodation" + grammar: future perfect and future continuous (pp. 162-167)

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25 Novembro 2020, 15:30 • Thomas Joe Grigg

feedback on final project outline and test feedback.

Expository Writing continued...

24 Novembro 2020, 18:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we carried on with the preparations for our upcoming oral exams.
The teacher modeled her thesis statement.  This is the single-hardest thing to do, and students will almost surely need one-to-one tutorials with the teacher so that they can figure out their thesis statements/essay questions for their upcoming orals.  Students will be prioritized according to their slot in the presentations (i.e. those presenting first need to have tutorials first). 

Following the presentation of the thesis statement,students were then taught how to brainstorm the arguments and ideas that will prove the thesis.  They were then taught how to rank the ideas from strongest to weakest, and then order them, ensuring that they begin their papers with the second-strongest idea, and ending with the strongest.  What happens in between these arguments is up to them; rules are meant to be broken intelligently.

We then analyzed an opinion piece (Wonder Woman: Carrying the Weight of the World) and identified: 1) the thesis statement (or, in this case, the essay question) embedded at the end of the first paragraph; 2) how each paragraph links from one to the next by linking ideas (a.ka. academic fluency, or 'the flow of ideas'); and 3) the thesis re-worded in the concluding paragraph + a little idea that has never been mentioned in the paper up to that point (a.k.a. a nice little kick).

Next class: we will look at how quotes are embedded into an essay text, and the techniques/rules surrounding quotations, citations, bibliographies, etc. we will continue to learn about expository writing and about the next necessary steps to be taken in preparation for our upcoming oral.  Most importantly, the teacher will demonstrate her oral presentation on Small Avalanches for the class.

Expository Writing continued...

24 Novembro 2020, 15:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we carried on with the preparations for our upcoming oral exams.
The teacher modeled her thesis statement.  This is the single-hardest thing to do, and students will almost surely need one-to-one tutorials with the teacher so that they can figure out their thesis statements/essay questions for their upcoming orals.  Students will be prioritized according to their slot in the presentations (i.e. those presenting first need to have tutorials first). 

Following the presentation of the thesis statement,students were then taught how to brainstorm the arguments and ideas that will prove the thesis.  They were then taught how to rank the ideas from strongest to weakest, and then order them, ensuring that they begin their papers with the second-strongest idea, and ending with the strongest.  What happens in between these arguments is up to them; rules are meant to be broken intelligently.

We then analyzed an opinion piece (Wonder Woman: Carrying the Weight of the World) and identified: 1) the thesis statement (or, in this case, the essay question) embedded at the end of the first paragraph; 2) how each paragraph links from one to the next by linking ideas (a.ka. academic fluency, or 'the flow of ideas'); and 3) the thesis re-worded in the concluding paragraph + a little idea that has never been mentioned in the paper up to that point (a.k.a. a nice little kick).

Next class: we will look at how quotes are embedded into an essay text, and the techniques/rules surrounding quotations, citations, bibliographies, etc. we will continue to learn about expository writing and about the next necessary steps to be taken in preparation for our upcoming oral.  Most importantly, the teacher will demonstrate her oral presentation on Small Avalanches for the class.