New Site

We're making a change to the way that we release work for our classes. The main lessons (the things that we'll do in class each day) will now be found at the site "Optimal Beneficial Moreover Detrimental: Classroom." We're keeping this site, with a slightly different name, in order to release a reading a day for students to practice their reading at home. Each post will contain a link to a reading, along with a list of assignments that can be completed for that reading.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

29.4. "Why My Mother Wants Me Dead," Personal Essay

What Are We Practicing Today
Sabatina James, the author of today's
personal essay.
We are learning the single best thing to know about reading, that BACKGROUND DETERMINES PERSPECTIVE.
We are reading a personal essay about parenting as part of our Extreme Parenting Decisions.
We are determining the central idea of the that essay. (RI3).
We are analyzing how a nonfiction text compares and contrasts two different concepts about parenting.

What Should We Remember to Do Our Work?

 1. Central Idea = WHO+WHAT+WHY -- if you can't determine this, then you did not understand the reading.
2. Remember that a person's background determines perspective. A person's values and viewpoint is always heavily affected by where they're from. It's one of the reasons that we should get to know people before we judge them.
3. A personal essay is a chained together group of logical paragraphs. You understand it if you can make a chain of main ideas, even if you don't write them down.

The Text

 Here's a personal essay about parenting from Newsweek.com's excellent website.

Write a Chain of Main Ideas Summary of the Thing in a Google Drive File.

 Be ready to talk about the following:

Imagine that you are this writer's parents. How can you defend your decisions?
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