Callie bevacqua 9/21/16

Callie Bevacqua
Wednesday, September 21


                   Todays class was shortened due to the activity schedule for the book chat.

1. Mr.Rivers opened the class with a discussion about the summer reading book chat. 

A chart was put on the board of what worked about the book chat and what didn't. He asked us our feelings about it. We discussed that although some students didn't read their whole books, it was still not a terrible experience. It worked because we as students were not forced to read a specific book for a grade and the teachers weren't forced to discuss a book they didn't enjoy teaching. The reason I enjoyed this style of summer reading is because as students we have it drilled into our heads that we only do an assignment if it is graded, however we were given a long list of books just to read as a learning interest for pleasure. I sure hope the summer reading remains this way in the future!

Here is a summer reading statistic^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    2.  Mr.Rivers reviewed the summative for Thursday.

The summative is an argumentative essay about a specific person's legacy that leaded them to success through motivation and opportunities. The class asked questions such as if there should be a works cited page and if the specific person can be a family member. There should be a works cited in the sense that the quotes should have in text citations and the website links should also be included in the end. In text citations should include the title of the article in quotations and author both in parenthesis. The person should most likely be well known because we have to find specific evidence. Personally I will be confident in this essay as long as I get my pre writing done!

    3.  We practiced evidence as a class

In our class groups we integrated evidence from the given topic sentence; Coffee can offer people a variety of health benefits. We first Introduced the quote, then cited it, then we did the analysis. The analysis connects the topic sentence to the evidence.