Assignment for October 25

Class,

Next week you need to bring in your rough draft for your five paragraph essay on Hatchet. You will also finish the book, Hatchet. We will have a guest speaker, Ms. Tricia Pratt, come in and discuss real survival strategies with us. This should last about 30-45 minutes. We will spend the other half of the class working on our rough drafts. We will have a class workshop where we pass our essays around for peer-review. We will look for thesis statements, topic sentences, quotations followed by MLA citations, grammar, and the Work Cited page. You will take your rough draft back home with you with all of your comments and make any necessary revisions. The final draft is due to me the 1st of November.

Please make sure all work is your original work. If you use an outside source, be sure to give them credit or this is considered plagiarism.

Example:

Sparknotes noted, "Gary Paulsen focuses on the theme of man versus nature in most of his work."  This is good research. 

Gary Paulsen focuses on the theme of man versus nature in most of his work. 
This is plagiarism. 

The credit to the original source is essential! And while you may use outside references for your essay, you should use them sparingly. You all have wonderful ideas, and I'd like to see them. If your essay is plagiarized, I will find out and have you re-do it. 

See you next Tuesday!