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Distance Learning – Day 7

Note: Please read everything on this post carefully! You can email me with any questions. I am responding to emails from noon-3:00 on Mondays-Fridays.

Goals for the week (overview):

1. Do one part of Academic Vocab Lesson 8 each day (on StudySync)
2. Revise, Edit, and Proofread Hero Argumentative Essay
3. Analyze a variety of texts related to heroes and superheroes
4. Finish late work on StudySync
5. Read 30+ pages in a book of your choice and log on Biblionasium

Directions (do in this order):

1. Academic Vocab

2. Argumentative Essay – EWP assignments are to be done in order. Go back to previous blog posts, StudySync, and Classroom assignments for prior directions.

Learning Target: Students will be able to revise an argumentative essay to improve content and organization and to maintain a formal style and tone.

For this next step, you need to have received two peer reviews on your EWP: Draft assignment in StudySync. If you have not, go back to previous lessons.

On StudySync, open EWP: Revise assignment. You will spend two days on this assignment.

• Follow directions in assignment. Read each part (including studying links) carefully and fully finish each step before moving onto the next one. Take your time. Your essay should look different from your original draft by the time you have finished all three rounds of revisions and the improvements should be noticeable.
• Turn in assignment when finished.
• Give two peer reviews following the guidance in the assignment.

3. Reading

On StudySync, open Brave assignment

• Follow directions on Read tab of assignment. This is day two of this assignment.
• Submit assignment when finished.

4. Late SS Assignments (will be graded in this order and disappear once graded):

1. Stride Toward Freedom
2. Satyagraha blast
3. Gandhi the Man
4. I Have a Dream
5. Bull Run
6. Sunrise Over Fallujah
7. Remembering Our Heroes
8. Veterans Return

5. Reading Log

No book? No problem! Go to Epic! or the Digital Collection and borrow an e-book. You can use it for your reading log! (Look for the page numbers at the bottom of the reading screen.)

Read 30+ pages in book of your choice and log on Biblionasium:

1. 1. Title/author
   2. p. ____ to p. ____ (actual page started on to page ended on)
   3. 3 Big Things that Happened (Answers the questions: Who? What? When/Where? How? Why?)
   4. 1 Thinking Strategy: prior knowledge, question, prediction, inference, connection, or word you figured out using syntax/etymology/context clues

Remember: You can email me with any questions about these lessons. I will be checking email from noon-3:00 on Mondays-Fridays.