Olivia Agius

9/20/16

Today in class we focused on the same objectives from yesterday’s class period. The first objective was to understand our classroom blogging assignment. We already discussed this yesterday, today was an overview of it. We talked about what it is exactly that creates a strong blog, which includes: engaging and addressing the reader, a use of a comfortable tone, the date, specific information presented in the paragraph, and some form of multimedia. In our groups we shared each of our practice blogs done for homework.Then, as a second objective we went back to integrating evidence through the introduction, claim, and analysis. We decided a strong thesis included a claim (argument), powerful active verbs, and topics (what the essay will cover). As practice, in groups we analyzed a thesis to identify what the claim, verb and topic was within it. Then, as a group we drafted a thesis about how legacy and opportunity help one achieve the American dream and succeed. This group work was to help with our essays we will be writing in class on Thursday. Our essays will be based on a person we believe was able to succeed in life, and using evidence to support our claim.When coming up with a thesis my group was stuck on including strong active verbs that would make sense with the writing. We finally were able to come up with one before the bell rang. In class we also discussed the book chat which will take place after lunch on the twenty first of September, tomorrow. On google classroom Mr. Rivers posted the rooms the book chats will take place. Since English is after the book chat we will be able to talk about it in class afterwards.