Sophomores:
1. Choose 2 passages that you want to write about from the reading. Type them in, as well as a question off of them: think of a question that would help us link these quotes — a question that would go before a topic sentence, or a question that would lead to class discussion, or a question that would lead to closely picking apart the quotes. (10 minutes)
2. Next, open up a comment bubble on one of the posts with 2 passages and a question, and then formulate a topic sentence that might answer this question or (if you want to ignore the question) might use these quotes if you wrote the whole paragraph. (10 minutes)
3. Then, click on a topic sentence, and in the comment bubble try to write out a paragraph with the topic sentence and quotes given to you. I encourage you to alter the topic sentence as you write. (20 minutes)
Good luck! This should be great practice for essay writing, particularly in-class essays. But I won't be grading these, or judging you for any misspellings or stupid ideas. So do your best, but don't worry if you know you don’t have the best idea in the world.
B. Slater
