Thursday, November 29th

Prepare for Critique
Sit in Critique Groups with your mask
Open your essay and highlight the thesis statement.
Underline each topic sentence.
Share your essay with your other group members.

Critique
Read each person's essay (while looking at the mask?) and comment on the following, according to the rubric.

• Which category of the rubric is this project excelling in?  What do you like most about the project?
• Which category of the rubric needs most work?  GIVE SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS.
• What questions or additional commentary do you have about this project?

WORK TIME AND CONFERENCES

Tuesday, November 27th

One Week Until Exhibition!!!!!

Let's re-orient ourselves.....

• Re-read: Project Overview
• Go over the rubric and complete the questions on the back on the paper.
• Share out!

If you have not submitted a draft to me, you are prohibited from working on your mask until you do so!

Draft of essay for peer critique due Thursday, November 29th.

Tuesday, November 13th

Some thoughts after spending the weekend with your essays....

The best ones have frames or extended metaphors guiding them.  Often these metaphors are the symbols in the mask.  (Props to those of you who are doing this!)

• What is the frame or metaphor guiding your essay's content?

THESIS STATEMENTS!!!!  When in doubt, let it occur at the end of a cleverly crafted intro that hooks your reader!  Most often, you should incorporate your frame or extended metaphor into the thesis.

• What is your essay's thesis statement?

STRONG TOPIC SENTENCES.  These should dictate your paragraph's content. Each paragraph should address ONE subtopic.  And then you steep your TEA.  If you need to, outline first (or reverse outline if you are already drafted out.  Use this outline template if it helps.  

• What are your subtopics?  Can you craft strong and clear topic sentences for each?

SENTENCE CRAFT.  The marks of quality sentences are conciseness and clarity.  Please work to eliminte wordiness.  It may help if you read your essay out loud or have someone read it to you.  And for the love of language, PROOFREAD!!!!

• Where can you improve your sentences?

SETTING UP QUOTATIONS.  Use the handout to reviseyour quote set-up or add some material from the Sociology content.

Monday, November 12th

Hello, my students!  This is the week when the projects come together!  Thanks for working diligently to make that happen!


 

MASKS AND ESSAYS DUE FRIDAY!!

If you got me your draft on time, you should have my feedback.  If you haven't submitted me a draft, PLEASE DO SO ASAP!!!!

As you work on your masks today, please take care of paints, brushes, resources.  Clean up after yourselves and be responsible Ospreys.

PROJECT RESOURCES:

• Project Overview
• Essay Outline Template
• Rubric
• MASK SLIDE SHOW
• Folder of Model Essays

Thursday, November 8th

MASK SLIDE SHOW

Draft due tomorrow!

• Project Overview
• Essay Outline Template
• Rubric

Tuesday, November 6

Do one more Mask Essay Analysis from the essays in the folder.

WORK DAY:
1. Essay prewriting and outline!  Draft due Friday! 
2. Mask refinement and artistry?

Monday, November 5th

Starter:  Write a working thesis on the whiteboard.

• Review the project description.
• To what degree is your thesis addressing the essential questions of the project?
• REVISE?

Let's chat about thesis statements....

• What makes for a good thesis statement?
• Thesis Statements: Mask Essay

Model Essay Analysis
Choose an essay to read in this folder (or ask Jessica to print one!)
Fill out the analysis electronically or on paper.

Friday, November 2

Mask Sketch Critique
Groups of 3:  Fill out the paper for each of your group members.  Give them feedback and suggestions verbally (and give them the paper!)


Sample Essay

• Identify the thesis of the essay.
• Underline each topic sentence:  What subtopics are addressed?
• What evidence does she use?
• What course content does she connect to?

Your essay!

• What might be your thesis?
• What subtopics might you address?
• DRAFT (due next Thursday for my feedback)

Thesis Statements due Monday!

Thursday, November 1st

Project Rubric


Sociology Content Brainstorm (in partners or groups of 3) 

• Look back over all of your writing and notes.
• Look back over your readings.
• Make a list of topics and ideas that we have covered in this class.
• Think about which elements of the course content might be relevant to your project. What might you integrate?

Here is our collective brainstorm.


WORK TIME
Mask Sketch Critique tomorrow!