Essay 1 taking its theme from The Dance Boots is due by Thursday before class. Bring the essay and all support documents electronically tomorrow so we can assemble the Essay Portfolio together. Pull all your related cyber-assignments from the blog and put them in a folder, along with the essay, the IPS, the outline, peer comments and essay with Microsoft Comment.

The Order:

1. Final Draft of Essay

2. Initial Planning Sheet (IPS)

3. Outline

4. Peer Review Response to Discussion Questions

5. Peer Review using Microsoft Comment

6. Cyber Assignments connected to The Dance Boots.

7. Freewrites if this applies, to The Dance Boots

8. Writing about Literature assignments related to The Dance Boots

9. Reading Logs if this applies. Everyone probably has notes from the Literature Circles

Notes

The Essay

Each of you has minimally three sources: The Dance Boots, the film, We Are Still Here, and a published book review. Students do not have to cite from all of these sources. If you only cite from the book, then put the other two sources in the bibliography.

Assembly Workshop

We will assemble the essay tomorrow in class. Bring all work in on a flash drive or via email or both.

Hopefully we will complete the assembly and send it off as well. If not, the essay is due by class Thursday morning. I will check off each students portfolio before you send it in tomorrow. Even if you haven't completed it, we can do a mock up with what you have completed up to that point, so bring it in electronically. NO PAPER COPIES except with reading logs, which I will accept this one time only.

I will show students an example of a portfolio on-line from another class tomorrow morning.

Submission

Students are emailing their essay portfolio to me: coasabirenglish1B@gmail.com