Scout goes to school! and Expository Writing Structure

Today's Goal: Grasp the overall structure of an expository essay, read chapter 2, and discuss using evidence to support statements you make in writing.

The Plan:

1. Book Love
2. Read To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 2
3. Purposes for Reading Questions on Google Classroom
4. Structure of an Expository Paper
5. Credible Research Reminders

Chapter 2 Purposes for Reading

1. Look for examples of Ms. Caroline's rigid thinking. In complete sentences, provide AT LEAST one example of her rigid thinking, and explain how it proves that her thinking is inflexible and fixed.

2. Based on the evidence in this chapter, what statement might Harper Lee be making about the educational system? 

Some notes about CREDIBLE research:

• Wikipedia is not a credible resource.
• Neither are blogs, weeblies, prezis that people made, or sites that simply provide opinions rather than historical FACT. While some of these might have factual information, you need that factual information to come from valid historical sources.
• You were not to use encyclopedias.
• If you can't find research that was clearly written by historians, you are not digging far enough.
• Scholar.google.com should be the FIRST place you look for credible research, NOT Google.
• It is imperative that all of your research is CLEARLY written by historians or journalists that have spoken with historians and done their credible research. If you can't find an author on the page, I'm worried.
• Things that brought you grade down: no citations, copied and pasted material without quotation marks around them, a lack of variety in sources, no book source, sources that are not credible (encyclopedias, prezis, "google searches," blogs and weebly sites, and other sources that clearly lack historical research.)
• You can resubmit this (and email me politely to ask for a regrade), but we're still moving forward with the essay. You'll have to make sure your final product has credible sources, or you will not be happy with how your final product turns out (and is graded).

I am here after school on Wednesday and Thursday this week to help you with ANYTHING English related. 

Homework:

• Finish answering your reading questions on Google Classroom today.
• SUPER Root Practice due tomorrow, WEDNESDAY, March 23.
• Click Here for the Slides
• You'll have a short Chapter 1/2 Reading Quiz on Thursday, March 24.
• If you decide to resubmit your research notes, you must send me a polite, professional email about the matter, AFTER you have revised them, and ask for a regrade. I will need them by Friday, March 25.
• DICT/SUPER Root Vocab Quiz on Monday, March 28