8th Grade--10/1

Today we worked on editing our essays with the following tools:

• Looking for consistent vocabulary usage from the thesis as a unifying element for the entire paper
• Looking for consistent vocabulary usage from the topic sentence as a unifying element for each body paragraph
• Crafting compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in our essays
• Using the thesaurus for stronger vocabulary usage

Students worked on editing and should bring a draft with these corrections in it for tomorrow's peer/self editing session.

Due tomorrow...

-Draft #2 of comparative essay
-Grammar quiz corrections TYPED

Long term due dates...

-Draft #3 of comparative essay due on Thursday