September 24, 2015

Today we worked on finding a "Pithy Quotation" from the piece, "On Essay's: Literature's Most Misunderstood Form." Students worked in groups to choose a line from the piece that they felt was the most important or central to the essay as a whole.  They then shared their choices with the whole class providing a justification for their choice.  Additionally, we discussed the difficulty students had identifying claims from the piece and analyzed all the parts of the essay that did not seem to be the author's own words.  This is a tough hour to recreate on a blog entry.  You really had to be there.  No homework, unless your group failed to provide an adequate justification.