Group Synthesis Essay Rough Draft
Essential Question: How do we synthesize multiple sources of information into a cohesive argument?
Learning Target: I can complete my synthesis essay with each group member contributing a section.
Bell Work
Hello! If you missed class today, you must answer the following two questions (for both Monday and Tuesday) on your NEW EOC Passage Analysis (print a new one if you need it) for this week based on The Names: A Memoir (print a new copy if you need it).
Monday
Which statement best demonstrates the author's close relationship with his horse?
Tuesday
Which statement presents a theme that unifies the passage?
Class Activities
If you weren't here today, please read over SpringBoard Unit 2, Embedded Assessment 2. Also, make sure that you have, with your group, completed the SpringBoard Unit 2, Embedded Assessment 2 Packet. Keep this, as I WILL collect it for a grade.
Homework
Unless your SpringBoard Unit 2, Embedded Assessment 2 is incomplete, you have no homework.
Learning Target: I can complete my synthesis essay with each group member contributing a section.
- Check the English IIB Syllabus for all Learning Targets.
Bell Work
Hello! If you missed class today, you must answer the following two questions (for both Monday and Tuesday) on your NEW EOC Passage Analysis (print a new one if you need it) for this week based on The Names: A Memoir (print a new copy if you need it).
Monday
Which statement best demonstrates the author's close relationship with his horse?
- A. The Kiowas owned more horses per capita than any other tribe.
- B. I was thirteen years old, and my parents gave me a horse.
- C. On the back of my horse I had a different view of the world.
- D. And through the hard hooves, the slender limbs, the fluent back of my horse I felt the earth under me.
Tuesday
Which statement presents a theme that unifies the passage?
- A. I am a Kiowa and therefore there is in me an old, sacred notion of the horse.
- B. I was thirteen years old, and my parents gave me a horse.
- C. Accordingly I set out one early morning, traveling light.
- D. Bits of down from the cottonwoods drifted across the air, and butterflies fluttered in the sage.
Class Activities
If you weren't here today, please read over SpringBoard Unit 2, Embedded Assessment 2. Also, make sure that you have, with your group, completed the SpringBoard Unit 2, Embedded Assessment 2 Packet. Keep this, as I WILL collect it for a grade.
Homework
Unless your SpringBoard Unit 2, Embedded Assessment 2 is incomplete, you have no homework.