Thursday, 6 October 2011

En 9: Reminders from Wednesday October 5, 2011

Today we completed our first official in class write.  Students' writing will be assessed and feedback will be provided to them to better enhance their writing process.

Everyone was asked to choose one of the following topics from John Steinbeck's novel, The Pearl.

1) Discuss theme in John Steinbeck's novel, The Pearl.
(greed)
(class struggle - rich vs poor)

2) Discuss symbolism in John Steinbeck's novel, The Pearl.
(the song)
(the pearl)
(the canoe)
(the scorpion)

The paragraph must:
a) be at least 6 sentences
b) have a strong topic sentence
c) have 1 integrated quotation
d) have capital letters and punctuation

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