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.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

31.4. "We Are What We Quote" by Geoffrey O'Brien RI8.

What Are We Practicing Today?
We're practicing the reading and note-taking technique we learned last week.

What Should We Review to Do This Well?
1. Number the paragraphs.
2. Read, looking for the main idea, the WHO+WHAT. Underline anything words or phrases that you think might be important.
3. Write the main idea in code in the margin of the text. Remember to use =, +, b/c, -->, BUT, and EX. to show the relationships between the ideas.
4. Make abbreviations for names by writing initials of things that you underlined and circling them. You can also write down previous paragraph numbers and circle them.

The Text

 Here's an essay from the New York Times blog about how important quotations are to some writers that I thought was good - "We Are What We Quote"

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