Day: December 9, 2019

Learning Target:

• I can come up with the final subject for my essay.
• I can identify which parts of my essay are in the beginning, middle and end.
• I can come up I can complete the exit ticket and start work on writing my essay.

Steps:

1. Look at the three ideas you came up with last week.
2. Choose one of them.
3. Figure out which parts go in the beginning, middle and end of your essay.
4. Complete the Exit Ticket in Google Classroom.
5. Post the answers to your exit ticket to your visual journal adobe spark page.
6. Start writing your personal essay.

Tuesday:

Strong goes over how to make your writing more visual, to make it easier to take pictures of your sentences.

https://entropymag.org/variations-on-a-theme-walls/

The above link contains an essay I wrote about a song and about my mentor.

What the essay is about: Growing up, finding my own voice, the way in life one thing ends and other thing begins. How there’s a pattern there.

The beginning of the essay: Starts at the end. At the end of the reading series I use to participate in. At Tom and my father talking.

The middle of the essay: I go back and forth between lyrics of the song, Walls by Tom Petty. I go back to how writing and the search for myself was the same thing.

I bring up both Tom Spanbauer, and Tom Petty, and I draw inspiration from both.

At the end of the essay I talk about the two times Tom visited me. At the end, I talk about moving on without my mentors, and how maybe I am a mentor to other people.

Think about the idea you have for your essay, how to the three parts of your essay break down?

Complete the Exit Ticket in Google Classroom to solidify your thinking.