Wednesday, August 31, 2016

August 31 ... Finishing the Rough Draft

OBJ ... TLW continue writing the rough draft of the college application essay with a focus on crafting a memorable hook that engages the reader.


WARM UP ...

Get  laptop and resume working on your rough drafts.


TODAY ...

Continue writing/begin typing your college application essay.

Be sure to type in Office 365 ... OFFICE365

Your login is the first 5 letters of your last name, first 3 letters of your first name, and probably 3 zeros @k12.sfisd.org

Your password is your 8 digit date of birth.


Remember your ...
Audience --- A COLLEGE ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE/PERSON

Purpose --- TO PROVIDE THEM WITH AN IDEA OF WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON AND WHAT SETS YOU APART FROM 1000s OF OTHER APPLICANTS


The rubric ... COLLEGE APPLICATION ESSAY RUBRIC


DUE DATES ... 
ROUGH DRAFT ... will be written and completed in class (hopefully)
FINAL DRAFT ... TUESDAY, September 6th.

AGENDA ...
TODAY  ... FINISH ROUGH DRAFTING
THURSDAY ... EDITING/REVISING ... BEGIN FINAL DRAFT
FRIDAY ... TIMED WRITING OVER ANOTHER TOPIC
MONDAY ... HOLIDAY
TUESDAY ... FINAL DRAFTS DUE!

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

August 30 ... Rough Drafting the College Application Essay

OBJ ... TLW continue writing the rough draft of the college application essay with a focus on crafting a memorable hook that engages the reader.


WARM UP ...

Read through the following information ... How To Start a Narrative Essay

***There have been some issues this morning with the new laptops (as we said there would be with new technology) ... try shutting them down and/or restarting them as necessary.  However, if it will not allow you to get onto the internet to view the blog, work in Office 365, etc. then we will have to work around them today.  Find someone who has a working computer to scan through the warm-up article ... or check it out on your phone.  If you are unable to begin typing your rough draft, continue hand writing it for today and tomorrow.***

TODAY ...

Continue writing/begin typing your college application essay.

Be sure to type in Office 365 ... OFFICE365

Your login is the first 5 letters of your last name, first 3 letters of your first name, and probably 3 zeros @k12.sfisd.org

Your password is your 8 digit date of birth.


Remember your ...
Audience --- A COLLEGE ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE/PERSON

Purpose --- TO PROVIDE THEM WITH AN IDEA OF WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON AND WHAT SETS YOU APART FROM 1000s OF OTHER APPLICANTS


The rubric ... COLLEGE APPLICATION ESSAY RUBRIC


DUE DATES ... 
ROUGH DRAFT ... will be written and completed in class (hopefully)
FINAL DRAFT ... TUESDAY, September 6th.

AGENDA ...
TODAY & TOMORROW ... ROUGH DRAFTING
THURSDAY ... EDITING/REVISING ... BEGIN FINAL DRAFT
FRIDAY ... TIMED WRITING OVER ANOTHER TOPIC
MONDAY ... HOLIDAY
TUESDAY ... FINAL DRAFTS DUE!

Friday, August 26, 2016

August 26 - The new laptops.

OBJ - To familiarize ourselves with the new laptops and ensure we can log on to Office 365 and have cloud storage set up.


TWO GOALS TODAY ... 1) Log on to Office365 and set up your OneCloud storage area and 2) create your blog for this class on Blogger


Go to this blog first - because it's easier to click on links than type them sometimes.

DAVISENG4.BLOGSPOT.COM


From there, go to http://portal.office365.com to log in to the Microsoft Online resources.

Your login will be the 1st FIVE letters of your last name + the 1st THREE letters of your first name + 000@k12.sfisd.org ... for example, mine would be ...

DAVISRIC000@k12.sfisd.org

Your 8 digit date of birth is your password.



After you've logged onto office online, go to http://www.blogger.com and set up an account there as well.  You will have a student blog (assuming the district hasn't blocked the site yet) that we will use as a class notebook in here.