7th Grade LA- Friday, February 11

Google Docs

1. Type your introduction into your document.

2. Re-save/re-name your document as firstname.lastname.wordstoliveby in your Google Docs account.

3. Make sure you've shared it with collopy.collopy@gmail.com.

4. Giving each other feedback.
- Have you shared it with at least five people in this class?
- Read the entire essay so far.
- Insert a comment about sentence fluency and word choice.
- Insert a comment about how the person can give more specific REDS.

5. Try writing a conclusion. Conclusions can be difficult because you feel like you are repeating yourself. Think of the following tips as you write.
- Summarize your most important parts of your life/essay.
- Look to the future!
- Write about what you hope/dream/visualize in your future. What will be important to you in ten/fifteen/twenty years? Why do you hope those things will be important?
- Use a quote to wrap things up.

Topic of this personal narrative essay:
- Write a personal narrative essay about the most important elements in your life. Describe and explain these significant parts of your life. In addition, connect these parts of your life to famous quotes.

Monday, April 12- Working on Rough Drafts

Monday, April 12

Working on Rough Drafts

- Step 1- Read this entire blog post.

- Step 2- Open Word; if you have already created a document use that document; save early and often!

- Step 3- Start typing all of your paragraphs! Use your hand-written rough drafts and start typing your body paragraphs.

• Do not worry about any headings, format issues, font, titles, etc.
• We will follow a common format; you can always format your document last.

- Step 4- Use your topic sentence packet to start each body paragraph. Each body paragraph should start with a topic sentence from the topic sentence packet.

- Step 5- Follow your outline in order to organize what information is in each paragraph.

- Step 6- Use transitions to link ideas and paragraphs together.

- Step 7- If you want to work on typing/body paragraphs at home, you need to transport this document electronically back and forth between school and home. OR- I am more than happy to write passes for homework club for any students this week.

Ways to transport your document:

• - copy and paste in the body of an e-mail; work on it at home, then copy and paste it into Word at home and repeat to get it back to school
• - attach the Word document to an e-mail and work on it at home and school
• - use Google Docs
• - use a flash drive