Essay Notes Summary

Over the last number of days, you have written an in class essay and you have been working on the objectives for each part of the essay. Below is a summary of the class notes for this section:

The essay assignment typically comes in two forms -- a question or a directive.for example:

What is the most important characteristic required to be successful in school? (question)

Discuss the most important characteristic required to be successful in school. (directive)


The most important thing to remember when writing the essay is to make sure you understand the question and answer the question directly.
Below you will find the objectives we discussed for the introductory paragraph (in order of importance - NOT appearance):

1. Answer the question (thesis statement)
2. List of supporting ideas (evidence which will serve to prove your thesis)
3. Introductory statement (this is the first sentence in your essay)

Next, you will find the objectives for the body paragraphs (in order of appearance):

1. Topic sentence (from your list of supporting ideas and relates to thesis)
2. Supporting details (logically prove why the thesis is true... between 5-7 sentences)
3. Transition sentence (make the connection from the present supporting idea/topic to the next supporting idea/topic)

You have all written an introductory paragraph fulfilling the objectives above. After successfully completing this task, you were assigned another essay activity where you were asked to write both the introduction and the first paragraph of the body.

Wednesday will see you write the first in class essay. Remember your textbook.

This Week's Agenda...

We will review the test on Tuesday and you will write your first in class essay on Wednesday. These essays will be graded and returned on Thursday, when we will talk about them.

Rescheduled Test

Monday is the day of the Unit 3 test! Be prepared!

Unit Test Date and Moving On

We have now completed our review for Unit 3. THE UNIT 3 TEST WILL BE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15.

Also, as we have completed our reading class for Unit 4, there may be a pop quiz at any time.

Today, you wrote your sample essay for me and you will get that back on Thursday. At that time, I will also discuss with you ways to improve your writing.

Timelines and Deadlines

Next week, we are back in class going over the questions for Unit 3, so make sure you are all done with those.

If time permits, we will have a review for Unit 3, meaning that a test is on the horizon in two weeks.

Also, there will be some additional lab time for classes as follows:

For Monday through to Wednesday, March 23-25

Period 2 and Period 5 - Room 115

Period 3 - Room 114

PLEASE NOTE -- THE UNIT 3 LONG TERM PROJECT IS DUE THURSDAY, MARCH 26,2009

Unit 3 Long Term Project - Part 2

Today we were back in the lab and working on other elements of html code.

You learned how to insert an image onto your web page by using the IMG SRC tag.

See the link below for a detailed description of your options in working with an image.

http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#images

You also learned you could make the image clickable or a hyperlink by inserting the image tag in the area where you would normally put text for a hyperlink.

Below you will find some helpful tutorials:

http://www.2createawebsite.com/

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

This one is good for reviewing some of the do's and don'ts of website design...

http://www.technorealm.co.uk/design/top-ten-errors.html

On Deck

Here's what you have to look forward to this week...

Tuesday, March 3 - Road Trip Project DUE

Thursday, March 5 - Unit 2 Questions DUE

Thursday, March 5 - Unit 2 Test