Log
Class began with our daily index card. On the front of our daily index card we wrote about the best part of our new draft, why it was the best, what we’re still worried about, and why.
The poem of the day was Gloss by Angie Estes.
The class was then reminded of a couple things. One, we get four absences in this class. Even if you have a note from the president, your mom, or the doctor, it’s all the same. Two, you sould of already emailed Mr. Wenzel your conference draft and you are to email him the final paper. Every draft in between goes on your Wix website.
Next Tess lead class discussion on Shitty first drafts. She asked what students felt about their first draft compared to their second. Nichole’s draft was read first. The last person to be called on was Olivia whom Tess read for. The main idea of the discussion was, a first draft is important to get your ideas on a page so that you can revise and perfect them. It doesn’t matter how cringe worthy they are, just get your ideas onto a page and work from there.
Mr. Wenzel informed the class to bring the best possible draft to your next conference, but first drafts are allowed to be shitty.
On the back of our index card we were asked to write three to five categories we want to be graded on for project one. Relevance to genre, content, grammar, exigence, structure, improvement, creativity, and coherence were all major points. We voted between overall quality and improvement. Overall quality won but if you would like, send Mr. Wenzel both drafts.
We briefly discussed how exigence is the explanation in your paper, why it had to be written by you. Is it personal or not?
The class was divided into groups of four where we read our paper out loud. We had to write down each person’s exigence and genre to be clear that they’d hit the mark. We also had to mention why we think that they wrote it and what errors we might want to address. This was a useful contribution to our papers to help work towards our final draft.
The last reminder was that Blog #4’s reading is fairly long and due on the sixth
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