1)Michael writes a summary of the main events from yesterday's reading.
2) Discussion Questions for "Johanna"
3) Review grammar and composition: complete sentences vs. fragments and run-on sentences.

Michael and I read and evaluate the short story "Johanna," practicing active reading and summarizing skills.

1)Michael and I review the progress of his Facebook essay from last week, focusing on the particular strengths and/or weaknesses and what we can do to revise his essay.

Work on essay, body paragraph 1.
Read articles about facebook addiction together.
Find additional articles on topic.

1)Michael and I revise the introduction to his Facebook essay.
2)Michael and I outline the body of his Facebook essay, using two of the research articles that er found in class yesterday.
3)Michael beings writing a draft to the body of his essay.

1)Michael and I type his first written essay and exercise several of the revision strategies that we discussed in the first week of class.

1)Michael Practices Freewriting on the topic Global Warming.
2)Michael writes a conclusion to his Tourism essay.
3)Michael and I continue reading the Albert Einstein essay.

1)Michael adds a body paragraph to the essay that he has been writing on Tourism in Paris vs. Tourism in Miami.
2)Michael and I read the Einstein essay from his college textbook and track the progression of ideas. Later, we will end up writing an essay that engages with the ideas presented in this essay.

Michael practices writing body paragraphs for each of the introductions that he constructed yesterday afternoon. Afterwards, Michael and I had a critical thinking workshop where we discussed the difference between fact and opinion based thesis statements, and including the appropriate level of support in research papers.

1)Michael works on Writing Introductions for Several topics/thesis statements. Using several of the introduction techniques in class, Michael practices starting introductions with quotations, questions, definitions, narratives, etc.