Week 11 Update

happy holidays students and welcome back from break.

I hope you had an amazing time getting some rest. I myself had an amazing time.

I've been with family this entire week,

hence the change in background and took a year some jingling going around.

That is not the sound of reindeers,

but instead that are some sounds of some adorable

golden doodles just trapeze in throughout the house,

although some might say they are the same equivalency of some reindeers.

Um anyway, I hope that you all had an amazing time of rest.

Like I said this week we are diving into the final act

of our class and that's kind of a big tall order.

So over the break you were offered the opportunity to work on

your extra credit and so that needs to be turned in tonight.

So it's kind of give you that blurb.

I also want to let you know that I sent an email to MS Mcbeal.

There is an opportunity for extra credit that I

posted his announcement over the break as well.

Please make sure you check that out. It's an event happening tomorrow.

If you're looking for a little bit of extra credit,

maybe just to learn a little bit more in honor of native american history month.

So check those things out

now. Um, now onto the big thing. So we are working on our argument paper.

So there's a lot of moving parts of this and it's pretty quick paced.

So hopefully you took some time over the break to

get your paper done if you haven't done that.

I'm gonna be honest Stewart a little bit behind, but we can make that happen.

So let's just kind of go through what's going to happen this week.

So it's pretty unstructured in the sense that the goal is to get the paper done,

what I've offered him,

what's going to be found in the modules is simply

just information providing what we're going to be doing.

Maybe some ways to help tie things in.

I'm also going to try to make videos, not daily,

but close to it to kind of give you some information on how to be successful there.

Um in addition.

Um so, so yeah,

so this week is mainly about drafting your paper that's kind of your main goal.

So you want to create a draft a working draft.

Now, what that should turn into is hopefully by friday, you've got five pages done.

That is a lot.

Now, if I was being honest,

I would say you should try to have about seven pages done that.

We are really just truly just revising next week.

However, I also am aware you have a lot of things going on that might not happen.

So a goal that you need to set is five pages done

that's gonna help you be the most successful in order to be

I'm prepared for next week's um

final steps.

So I have heard from everyone on their aren't paper this,

maybe a couple people that I'm still holding out on,

make sure that I've approved your topic. I want to make sure you're successful.

That's the only reason why I'm being nit picky. So

Um there's a couple details there now on the modules,

there's gonna be a lot of steps of what to do, how to go through things.

The biggest thing here check out part five of the writer's mindset,

that's gonna be chapters, let me just confirm.

And those chapters, I want two chapters 19 through 22,

yep,

chapters 19 through 22 of the writers mindset definitely take some extra time

to review those things that's going to do what I've already said and dive

into some more detail is gonna provide some extra information and of course

please should be sure to reach out to me and ask for help.

Um One thing I want to remind you of is the is reaching out

to me for looking at your paper

and having conversations um specifically zoom appointments.

That is something I have had throughout the semester.

Not many students have taken that opportunity,

but I wanted to remind you especially its final two weeks,

how helpful that could be for you to reach out to me for me to schedule,

zoom in with you so we can look at your paper.

I highly recommend you do that. Take advantage of that opportunity.

Just make sure you email me just because you know we don't live in the same area.

I'm not meeting with you live.

It's gonna be difficult for me to guarantee those times.

But make sure you reach out to me, I will move mountains,

especially this final two weeks to make sure that I meet with you.

Obviously the best times are going to be in the evening or after

school because I am also a full cuts full time english teacher.

So that would be something to be mindful of as well.

In terms of reviewing drafts, I'm more than happy to review drafts.

I would love to see by the end of this week at least one body paragraph of your work.

I would love to look at more, but I can dive deep into at least one in paragraphs.

Please send me what you've got. I want to know what you're doing.

I want to make sure successful.

I want to help you out and those students who reach

out to me often do much better on their papers.

Okay.

So I think that hits and now just for the updates in the week,

I'm going to make another video in a second and that's

gonna be diving into specifically what we're doing for monday.

So have a good day everyone. Bye.

Week 11 Update

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