Writing Portfolio
Students wrote their second 5 paragraph essay (topic: Should schools eliminate grades?). This essay will be graded on the following three areas:
1) Introduction: hook, background on issue (showing major arguments of both sides), and thesis (one sentence statement of position on question with three "because" reasons).
2) Body paragraphs: claim, concrete evidence (logically connected and consistent), concluding sentence
3) Personal areas for improvement from grading rubric on uniform essay
Core
Bellwrite #11: Elder Bednar talks about a miraculous progression of technologies that have helped to hasten the work of the Lord. Create a timeline to show this progression including as many technologies as you can. (Try to get the sequence, but don't worry about dates.)
Students took a second reading quiz on The Chosen (chapters 6-8). They also discussed what they have been annotating and indexing on the themes of silence and vision/blindness.
Mr. Dann Hone, founder of the BYU Jerusalem Center, was a guest speaker who shared with us insights on major symbols of Judaism. He will be returning on Thursday to discuss Tzaddiks (from The Chosen) and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Homework: Read and annotate the packet on the War in Afghanistan.
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