This week Sophie turned in a complete first draft of her research essay, while Cheryl turned in an annotated bibliography. These were our last meetings! I was impressed by Sophie’s draft. She has done a lot of research, and did … Continue reading
This week Cheryl submitted the final draft of her second essay, while Sophie submitted an annotated bibliography in preparation for her final research essay. Cheryl’s final draft was well-organized, interesting, and did a good job of incorporating her two chosen … Continue reading
This week Cheryl handed in a complete draft for her second essay, and Sophie turned in the final draft of her second essay. Cheryl’s second essay was much better than her first. It was well-organized and drew on some good … Continue reading
This week Sophie and Cheryl started in on their second essays, although Cheryl is a week behind Sophie. They both had a lot of say in selecting the topics for their second essay; during our meeting we looked through their … Continue reading
This week Sophie turned in the final draft of her first essay, while Cheryl turned in her third draft. Sophie’s final draft showed a huge improvement over the first draft and demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of both the prompt and … Continue reading
This week Sophie turned in the third draft of her essay and Cheryl turned in the second draft of hers. Sophie’s essay is coming together very nicely, and I think we will both be happy with the final draft she’ll … Continue reading
This week Cheryl and Sophie worked on the second drafts of their first essay. Sophie handed in a second draft, and we continued to discuss many of the elements of organization and structure that we talked about last week. Because … Continue reading
Cheryl and Sophie wrote the first drafts of their first essays this week. They were each given short quotes from articles they selected for their reading lists; the quotes presented an opinion of the author, which Cheryl and Sophie were … Continue reading
This week Sophie and Cheryl were given short writing exercises (2-3 pages) to identify an argument in an assigned reading and explain whether they agreed or disagreed with the author. Cheryl’s assignment was well-organized, which was a huge improvement over … Continue reading
This week I asked Cheryl and Sophie to read chapter 3 of Williams’ Sin Boldly and an article by Maria Popova on various famous writers’ writing processes. I then assigned a 2-3 page thoughtletter in which they were asked to … Continue reading